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Look at the picture on the cover, there's a child, a girl in a red dress; there's a bird, a crow in a blue white sky. And then there are a few things you cannot see.
-f r o m If You Are Afraid of Heights
But the crow sees everything: In Part One, a man and a woman meet in a midnight road accident and fall in love. In Part Two, a reporter arrives in a small town to uncover the story of a child's rape and murder. In Part Three, a young girl, shaken by suicides in her neighborhood, begins to fear for her parents' lives. And the lives of all of these characters overlap and intersect in a magical realm that lies somewhere between fantasy and reality. Ultimately, multiple coincidences and recurring motifs pull the parts together and reveal the ways in which all three tales are both their own stories and the many sides of one story.
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"If words fail you..don't worry, I shall fill in the blanks".......2004-09-27
A haunting novel which takes the reader to new heights on the back of a crow, Jha's latest novel tells three mysterious and unsettling stories from three points of view, all with overlapping imagery. Neither realistic nor magical, Jha creates a whole new realm here, the world that exists between dream and nightmare, and between imagination and memory, which all of us inhabit for most of our everyday lives. Motifs (a crow, a red dress, a brown dog, a house with a balcony that looks like a frown) appear and reappear throughout the three different sections, with each part recreating the inner world of a different character.
In the first section, Amir, a young man who has been injured by a tram, is nursed back to health by Rima, a young woman who brings him back to her apartment, gets him a doctor, and makes sure that all his needs are met so that he can recuperate in peace. In the second section, Mala, a young newspaper reporter, has gone to a distant village to investigate the death of a child, who has drowned in a canal after being raped. The final section returns to the city where a neighborhood has suffered a rash of suicides. A young child is worried that her parents might kill themselves and confides in a friend, who promises to follow her father and mother.
Two italicized prologues and a brief conclusion summarize the novel thematically, while the first person narratives illustrate the sensual responses of Amir, Mala, and the child to what is going on around them and provide insights into their emotional states. The novel requires the reader to form hypotheses about what is happening and how the characters connect, with the author confirming the connections and the meaning of the novel in the conclusion, which draws all the visual details and motifs together.
Jha emphasizes the process by which we all bring order and "sense" to our lives, how we live our dreams, and how we deal with our fears and our memories. The reader must be committed to letting this impressionistic novel unwind, accepting the mysteries that exist, as they do in our own lives, without worrying about the characters or the direction of the "plot." The author fills in any blanks at the end. Unique in its approach and fascinating in its construction, this novel captures the essence of its characters' lives and connects directly with the reader's own inner life. In this, it achieves a universality rare in fiction. Mary Whipple
A wedding of past to present.......2004-09-05
In the first prologue of two, Jha hints at the mysterious nature of the tales to come, a reminder that things are always more complicated than they appear and infinite layers reside between vision and reality. To get the full impact of this novel, one must suspend belief and heed the distant chords of memory.
In a skillful blending of three interconnected stories of contemporary India, Jha's characters are beautifully nuanced: the man and woman who fall in love after he is involved in an accident, the female reporter in search of truth about the brutal murder of a young girl in a red dress; and finally, a young girl in a red dress, speaking from her own unique perspective. With elegant language that is both visual and visceral ("He tastes the taste of broken sleep"), the author is the pied piper of imagination, drawing concentric circles, attaching the characters within a fragile web of familiarity.
This is a complex novel, written by a man who is not afraid to delve into the deepest recesses of the human heart, past daily facades, into the places where dreams dwell and fears bloom like dark flowers. Wealth alone provides safety from the world at large, while poverty waits patiently to strike the unsuspecting; survival is played out against a background of nature's excesses, a paucity of luxury and the infinite tedium of daily struggles.
Jha peers into the teeming throng of humanity with an omniscient eye, carefully selecting his protagonists, intersecting the details of their lives, then merging into the unknowable. Memory mixes flawlessly with reality in this cautionary fable, where innocence is captured in the form of a young girl in a red dress, crying softly, poised on a precipice of poverty, fear and fate. Perhaps it is the incessant rain that so perfectly captures these characters, distorting their desires, reflecting them back to the world. The narrative is strangely comforting, a journey through life's corridors, sometimes nightmarish, often familiar with yearning and irrepressible shards of hope. Luan Gaines/2004.
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Jha Raj Kamal
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"If words fail you..don't worry, I shall fill in the blanks".......2005-10-03
A haunting novel which takes the reader to new heights on the back of a crow, Jha's latest novel tells three mysterious and unsettling stories from three points of view, all with overlapping imagery. Neither realistic nor magical, Jha creates a whole new realm here, the world that exists between dream and nightmare, and between imagination and memory, which all of us inhabit for most of our everyday lives. Motifs (a crow, a red dress, a brown dog, a house with a balcony that looks like a frown) appear and reappear throughout the three different sections, with each part recreating the inner world of a different character.
In the first section, Amir, a young man who has been injured by a tram, is nursed back to health by Rima, a young woman who brings him back to her apartment, gets him a doctor, and makes sure that all his needs are met so that he can recuperate in peace. In the second section, Mala, a young newspaper reporter, has gone to a distant village to investigate the death of a child, who has drowned in a canal after being raped. The final section returns to the city where a neighborhood has suffered a rash of suicides. A young child is worried that her parents might kill themselves and confides in a friend, who promises to follow her father and mother.
Two italicized prologues and a brief conclusion summarize the novel thematically, while the first person narratives illustrate the sensual responses of Amir, Mala, and the child to what is going on around them and provide insights into their emotional states. The novel requires the reader to form hypotheses about what is happening and how the characters connect, with the author confirming the connections and the meaning of the novel in the conclusion, which draws all the visual details and motifs together.
Jha emphasizes the process by which we all bring order and "sense" to our lives, how we live our dreams, and how we deal with our fears and our memories. The reader must be committed to letting this impressionistic novel unwind, accepting the mysteries that exist, as they do in our own lives, without worrying about the characters or the direction of the "plot." The author fills in any blanks at the end. Unique in its approach and fascinating in its construction, this novel captures the essence of its characters' lives and connects directly with the reader's own inner life. In this, it achieves a universality rare in fiction. Mary Whipple
Real and Ethereal.......2003-09-28
A dreamlike novel. Fairy tale, fantasy, fable. Exquisitely devastasting, clearly gritty, but ultimately optimistic and supremely haunting.
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Ten years have passed since Europe plunged into chaos following a directed comet strike on London by Louis XIV's alchemists. The resulting nuclear winter forced everyone southward. The Russian Empire of Peter the Great holds sway, but Tsar Peter has mysteriously disappeared and his chief alchemist, Adrienne de Montchevreuil, has been attacked by a creature of the malakim, who provide the power for many of the technological innovations created by alchemists. Ben Franklin now lives in Charleston and is part of a secret organization, the Junto, that seeks to destroy the malakim and their agents in the New World. Only here have their evil intentions been fully recognized. Now the enemy is on American soil in the form of Scottish king James Stewart and his troops in the East and a mysterious but terrifyingly powerful army led by the Sunboy in the West. Only an alliance of English, French, and Spanish settlers with the Native American tribes have a chance of defeating them.
The series continues to provide an intriguing blend of fantasy and historical characters, plenty of action, and fine writing. This episode, however, begins and ends abruptly. Read the first two books (Newton's Cannon and A Calculus of Angels) first, and be prepared for a cliffhanger ending that will leave readers anxious for the next book. --Nona Vero
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There has never been an epic quite like The Age of Unreason. By interweaving reality with arcane fantasy, J. Gregory Keyes proves himself a literary alchemist who vividly recreates the eighteenth century–and brings it brilliantly to new life.
When Sir Isaac Newton uncovered the secrets of alchemy, he could never have imagined the tragic results. Dark sorcery rules. Europe is lost and the American colonists have been driven south. The demonic creatures known as the Malekim won’t tolerate even a flicker of hope. Any who oppose them– Franklin, Voltaire, even the mysterious daughters of Lilith–will be swept away. However Benjamin Franklin and his secret society, the Junto, manage a precarious existence founded on the mutual trust of Native Americans, whites, and freed blacks. And as armies and alchemy clash, the Choctaw shaman Red Shoes witnesses a vision of an ancient, implacable evil–and of a young boy who shines as brightly as an angel . . . the fallen, avaricious kind.
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Mystic war comes to the Americas.......2005-06-19
J. Gregory Keyes keeps the momentum going in the third book of the Age of Unreason series, Empire of Unreason. The first two books were an excellent mix of historical and original characters all in a fantastic alternate history of alchemy and religion. This one, the third in the series, takes place ten years after A Calculus of Angels and is a bit less complete then the first two books. That's not to say it's missing anything, but it does end on a bit of a cliffhanger, which they didn't.
Ten years after the battle with Russia's Peter the Great in Venice, a lot has changed in the world. Ben Franklin is back in the Americas, the local alchemist in Charles Town as well as head of a secret group of scientists who are working to defeat the Malekim, sinister figures who might pass as demons or unruly angels to the non-scientific mind. They are trying to get mankind to eradicate itself, or at least stop meddling in scientific pursuits that they feel are their own domain. Meanwhile, Adrienne is in St. Petersburg where she was taken by Tsar Peter, but Peter is now missing and she is under threat from those who would take over for him. She's also searching for her kidnapped son, who it turns out may be the evil that defeats them all. Only a Choctaw Indian named Red Shoes may be able to stop them. With the colonies in America under assault from a Russian backed English king, Franklin must endeavor to convince the disparate governments in North America to join together and fight back, though it may all be for naught.
Keyes continues his excellent characterization, with all of his main characters being fully developed and interesting to read about. Adrienne is a mother who is despairing about her son, especially once she learns who he may really be. She's been allied to the Malekim at some point, but she realizes exactly what they are doing and that she must do her part to fight them, with the aid of some factions of the Malekim who aren't necessarily after mankind's destruction. She's very narrow-minded, refusing to offer her lover much more than her bed and scorning most any other offers of friendship except for Crecy, her faithful companion and defender.
Franklin is once again Keyes' masterpiece, as he is torn between the woman he loves but has neglected for the last ten years and the task he knows he has to do. He does his utmost to keep Lenka out of any danger, but she bristles under his protection, thinking he's excluding her and putting her aside for his science. Keyes portrays Franklin as somebody who loves women but can't seem to understand them. He's not very knowledgeable about love and he feels trapped by his duty anyway. The reader feels for him after each conversation with his wife, as we see her drift further and further away from him.
The only misstep in characterization, and it is minor, is Red Shoes. While he was fairly interesting in A Calculus of Angels, he went downhill in this one. His character is the most mystic of all of them (though Adrienne is close), and Keyes doesn't really ground him in the real world that well to make him appealing. He certainly tries, but doesn't quite succeed. Late in the book, something happens that makes Red Shoes more of a tragic figure, but I found by this point that I didn't really care that much. I wanted the action to get back to Franklin or Adrienne (or even Oglethorpe, who is a new character introduced in this book).
Still, that is really the only "bad" part of the book. Keyes' prose is once again serviceable, though the dialogue is at times a bit questionable (most of these are in the Red Shoes sequences, so perhaps that's why they were questionable compared to the rest). He hadn't quite reached the level he's now at in The Kingdoms of Throne & Bone series, but it is still quite good. There is a lot more action in this book, with war coming to the colonies, flying airships powered by the Malekim facing off against the fledgling government of the Americas, the colonists outnumbered and outgunned, but they are slowly becoming united. Oglethorpe is fighting a rearguard action while Franklin is trying to enlist allies, unaware that the mystic war is coming at them from the western part of the continent as well as the east. Keyes' descriptions of the battles are extremely vivid and interesting to read about.
Empire of Unreason also avoids the faults of the previous books, which is definitely a good thing. He no longer (or at least, much less noticeably) begins chapters in the middle of the action and has the characters either tell or hear about what happened before. There are far fewer coincidences involved in this book as well with everything having a good reason for happening besides trying to get all of the characters together. Too bad that every time Keyes fixes a flaw, something else creeps in, but it is impossible for a book to be perfect.
All in all, Empire of Unreason is yet another winner for Keyes, and I can't wait for the conclusion to see how it all wraps up.
David Roy
suffers a bit from "middle book", but sets up the conclusion.......2004-12-02
"Empire of Unreason" is the third book in the four book "Age of Unreason" series by Greg Keyes. It takes place approximately 10 years after the events of "A Calculus of Angels". Ben Franklin is living back in the American Colonies, in Charleston. He is a founding member of some sort of secret scientific organization called the Junto. The Junto are leaders in the community and they are working to continue to advance science as well as figure out exactly how to stop and kill the malakim, the "demons" that were discovered through Isaac Newton's alchemy and are the ultimate cause of all of the destruction of the past twelve years. The exiled pretender King James has come to the colonies (since London was utterly destroyed twelve years prior) to claim his throne, but Franklin sees the hand of the malakim behind King James.
Adrienne, the woman scientist who has been the driving force behind much of the innovation and destruction of the past decade, is in the court of the Tsar of Russia. She knows there are forces of the malakim aligned against humanity, but she owes so much to others of the malakim who claim obedience to her. She continues to search for her lost son, who would be twelve years old by the events of "Empire of Unreason". While she continues to search for her son, and evade her own enemies in Russia, there is a new force in America. A boy called the Sun King, who has come out of the West. He seems to be a prophet, and leads forces from China. But, he may also be Adrienne's son.
There is so much going on in "Empire of Unreason" that if one hasn't read the first two volumes of this series ("Newton's Cannon", and "A Calculus of Angels") the reader will be completely lost. This book suffers from the middle book syndrome in that it works to continue a story and set up a conclusion, but it cannot stand alone. The reader is thrust right into the story and has to play catch-up figuring out exactly how much time has passed since the second book in the series. While this is a "middle book", it is also a fast paced, exciting story. Greg Keyes no longer has to engage in world building, but can now give us an adventure story that drives to an ending. "Empire of Unreason" seemed to end in a hurry, and was a little confusing, but the "Age of Unreason" series is proving to be an excellent one in the fantasy genre, as well as being an alternate history. Keyes is a very good writer, and he is working with a very broad canvas here. Read the first two books, and then continue on with the series. It is worthwhile reading for the fantasy reader.
-Joe Sherry
An Intricate Tapestry of Events.......2001-02-10
Empire of Unreason is the third volume (out of four) in J. Gregory Keyes series, "The Age of Unreason." The series depicts an 18th Century world that has discovered the existence of angels who take an active role in the human world. These are not the beneficient creatures that appear on Christmas cards, but spirits that intend the control and destruction of the human race.
In the first volume, "Newton's Cannon," we find three key players, Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and Adrienne do Montchevreuil enmeshed in the plots and machinations of the English and French kings. This is a titanic struggle over Newton's discovery of Philosopher's Mercury. It ends in the destruction of both countries when Louis XIV managed to aim a comet at London.
In the second volume, "A Calculus of Angels," the world is plunged into a new Dark Age by the cataclysm. Newton and his assistant Franklin flee to Prague, while Adrienne struggles for survival and is drawn to Tsar Peter the Great. Cotton Mather and Blackbeard lead an expedition to the Old World to find out what had happened. Along with them comes a Choctaw shaman, Red Shoes, who will play an increasingly significant part in later volumes.
With most of the players introduced book three, "Empire of Unreason," plays them out on a canvas that focuses on events in the New World. Franklin and Red Shoes lead separate efforts that bring them in direct conflict with the machinations of angels manipulating imperial Russia. These manifest as the appearance of James Stuart (the English Pretender) with an army on the Eastern Coast and the invasion of the Western Coast by Oriental and Russian forces lead by the Sun Child, who is actually de Montchevreuil's son. The plot swirls with complexities as the various characters are drawn into what may become a confrontation in the next volume. Here they fight battles and hunt the creatures of the Malakim (angels) and are hunted in turn. The writing is colorful and there is a never-ending supply of cliffhangers and twists to keep up the reader's interest.
I am reading another alternate history series at the same time, Mary Gentle's Book of Ash. This follows a young woman military commander in a struggle across the face of 15th century Europe. The two series have much in common. The heroes are facing enemies that would eradicate the human race. The primary characters are touched by magical forces that change them permanently. And their struggles are against overwhelming odds.
The series differ in that Ash is true science fiction coupled with superb military history, while the Age of Unreason is a fantasy with the illusion of a scientific basis. Age of Unreason is the more intellectually interesting, since the author takes the time to delve into philosophical and metaphysical ideas. Not in such detail that the narrative is ever the least bit tedious, but there will be times when you put the books down and think over a paragraph.
Both series are exceptional works of author's imagination that I recommend wholeheartedly. Certainly, if you enjoy one of them, you will enjoy the other.
A steady progression towards the climax of the series.......2000-05-31
I consider myself a big fan of J. Gregory Keyes, so it probably comes as no surprise that I found this book, like its predecessors, to be delightful. This third book in the "Age of Unreason" series picks up ten years after _A Calculus of Angels_ left off, and the three main characters of the tale (Ben Franklin, Adrienne de Montchevreuil, and Red Shoes of the Choctaw) soon realize a malevolent entity in the western reaches of North America threatens all the Colonials have fought for.
Keyes' style is round-robin, and he rotates between characters, chapter by chapter, throughout the book. He is somewhat guilty of blatant cliff-hangerism, but I've learned to enjoy it. His characters are interesting enough that I didn't mind being torn away from one to hear about another.
But without a doubt, his strength is his masterful concoction of cultures that could have been ancestors of our own. His knowledge of native American tribes is evident, and he uses it to greater effect in this volume than in the previous two. My biggest complaint was that _Empire of Unreason_ seemed to end like a movie whose film had run out, which is why it gets only four stars. Certainly, there could've been a grander climax, but the book as a whole stands solidly.
If you've read the first two books in the series, the third is no reason to stop. My favorite still remains _Newton's Cannon_, but this book sets up a fourth (and final, so I hear) book that I eagerly await.
More character development,please.......2000-05-30
Ten years have passed since the death of Isaac Newton, ten years since the Russians had access to his scientific journals fromn Prague, the less critical ones than the few he could manage to take with him to Venice. We see now why he did not want to contribute to the 'science' of the Royal Society, nor lend much aid to the monarch in Prague - in reality the 'technology' of the malakim (the realm of spirits between humans and God), or even more correctly - plain old fashioned sorcery - "philosophically useless" as Newton once told Ben Franklin. A guilded cage for the truly scientific spirit. And what use have the Russians made of his discoveries? They produce more and more hideously evil machines of war, even a life-gobbling maelstrom of malakim known as the keres, a "dark engine". One suspected that Leonhard Euler would make an appearance, but so far, maddeningly, he JUST MAKES AN APPEARANCE!. Probably the most gifted mathematician to ever live, he frees himself from service to Tsar Peter, and goes in search of, who else?, Newton's clever young apprentice, Franklin. And the subplot is dropped there! Red Shoes becomes a frightening apotheosis of the Native American shaman, and Adrienne finally learns the error of 'using' the malakim, thoughtlessly, like a witch. But is it too late?, and her son...it is her passions that will destroy the world. And maybe that is the point of Keyes' opera: that what makes us humans distinct from our mere human nature - (read especially her 'dream' in the abandoned wilderness that was once the gardens of Versailles) - is our reason, which we ought not abandon, even in the face of extraordinary temptations to gain everything: power, wealth, revenge, victory ... simply by "asking" for it.
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Great story and intrigue. Classic Battletech........2005-01-25
I give Bred For War three stars for being a top-tier novel of the occasionally entertaining Battletech series.
Stackpole squeezes an incredible amount of content into 378 pages. He advances stories and characters at an amazing pace. I could select several other Battletech books that, combined, contribute less to the Battletech story arc than Bred For War does alone. Even casual conversations between civilians cover interstellar war news and detailed theories about Melissa Steiner's death. When characters discuss a leader, they will include his childhood history and the history of his ancestors two generations back. Nearly every major political group has an active role in this book.
Stackpole has a very clear, straightforward writing style. He communicates quickly and efficiently; he does not use flowery language. On a style spectrum with deadpan Tom Clancy on one end and poetic Shakespeare on the other, Stackpole lies close to Clancy. You will find no descriptions of the clouds, or the flowers in bloom, or unbridled love between lonely souls. Feelings are not explicitly stated, but rather inferred through actions.
Stackpole includes a huge number of characters, tied together through a web of feudal oaths, treaties, and ancient hatreds. Through covert operations, frame-ups, betrayals, and lies, human civilization is pulled into an all-out war. Stackpole handles the story threads well considering the breadth of the story. However, many scenes last barely two pages before shifting attention across the galaxy. I think Stackpole found himself rushed to wrap things up.
Victor Davion has inherited a realm that his father Hanse recently enlarged. Victor is Stackpole's major hero, largely due to Victor's focus on uniting with the other Successor Houses and combating their common enemy, the Clans. Unfortunately, the other House Lords are more focused on chipping away at Victor's realm. His sister Katrina seceded with half of his territory. Victor provides medical treatment for Joshua Marik, the heir of the Free Worlds League throne, in exchange for League war material that Victor needs against the Clans. Joshua is dying, and Victor takes a major risk in order to maintain the status quo with the League.
I took more interest in the secondary plot, featuring the conflict between the Wolves and the Jade Falcons. Stackpole obviously enjoys writing for the Wolves. They have a deeply noble character; they risk their lives for high ideals. The Wolf Clan leads the Warden clans and strives to calm the Crusader Clans' zeal. A minority of Crusaders amongst the Wolf Clan challenge the Wolf ilKhan's authority. This setup provides the classic literary theme of an honorable high leader, ilKhan Kerensky, combating dissension in his realm. He earned the Bloodname of the founders of the Clans, and remains true to their principles. I liked how the Wolf leaders remained stubborn and defiant despite overwhelming odds. There's a certain charisma in principled military commanders, and it really comes through with ilKhan Ulric Kherensky, Khan Phelan, and Khan Natasha Kerensky. The Wolves are also apparently the greatest warriors in the galaxy, and their spirit, skill, and pride radiate.
I found the battle scenes exciting and vivid. I wanted to see more; unfortunately they constitute a small portion of the book. This book is all about war, but concentrates mostly on moving the story.
Overall, I enjoyed this book. It has detailed conflict between major star empires with extreme ideologies. Apparently Stackpole was later dropped from the Battletech franchise; this reflects bad judgment on the part of the management. He played an instrumental role in defining the Battletech universe. I recommend Bred For War to all Battletech fans.
-Zach Zelmar
Usual, competent Stackpole.......2004-02-20
It's always amusing to see Michael A. Stackpole portray Victor Steiner-Davion as the greatest man in the universe despite his general incomptence, twisted morality and lack of likeability. Thankfully Victor rarely appears in this book.
"Bred for War" has many different storylines, all competently handled, that advance the general history of the Inner Sphere in 3057. Don't even think about reading this book if you're not familiar with the BattleTech setting. We have the resurgence of the Capellan Confederation and the Free Worlds League, the Refusal War between Clan Wolf and Clan Jade Falcon, and the widespread turmoil caused by the afore-mentioned Victor's stupid choices. There's a well-balanced mix of action and intrigue, none of it particularly gripping - but like I said, this is standard, competent Stackpole. You don't expect the Earth and you don't get it, either.
The stand-out is the storyline involving the planet Zurich and Noble Thayer, a writer looking for a quiet hideaway who turns out to be much more than he seems when a revolution sweeps through. This would have been worth a book on its own.
One final point. When is Stackpole going to learn something - anything - about women's clothes?
Another hard hitting book from Stackpole........2000-04-06
This is the fourth book that I own. You need to get this book.A plan of deception goes bad, a clan raid,a sister bent on over throwing her brother,a nasty war, just seems to explode in this book.
Another stirring adition to the Battletech universe!.......1999-11-18
In this triumph by one of my favorite authors, political intrigue and raw action mix together. Carrying the reader away. The pages fly by as a stellar drama is played out. A must read for any fan of either the author, or the series.
Prince Victor Steiner-Davion runs into trouble in his reign.......1999-07-17
Prince Victor Steiner Davion along with the throne inherits many problems
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Alex Vernon
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In his second memoir, Vernon traces his ongoing relationship with war and soldiering--from growing up in late Cold War 1980s middle America to attending West Point, going to and returning from the first Gulf War, and watching, as a writer and academic, the coming of the second Iraq war. It is not a narrow autobiography that attempts to account only for the writer's life; it uses that life to illuminate the lives of its readers, to tell us about the time and place in which we find ourselves. This is a book that aims high in an artful, subtle way.
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Chief Ifayemi Elebuibon comes from a family acclaimed to be one of the authorities on Yoruba traditional institution. His great ancestor, OLUTIMEHIN was one of the co-founders of the City of Oshogbo, in Osun State of Nigeria. Yemi is a Yoruba poet and is known all over the world. He is a herbalist, diviner dramatist, playwright, author of many books on Yoruba culture. This book discusses the role of women in Ifa, The First Principle Wife of Òrúnmìlà and through the various Odus (Sacred text of Ifa) relates and analysis's various aspects and circumstances of Apetebii. An especially important book for women's studies.
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