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KINGDOM OF THE SUN
Paperback || Rita Khatchadorian || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Kingdom of the Sun is based on the well-known legendary myth of Ara the beautiful and Semiramis. A legendary based on revenge, hatred and sick love. The kingdom of the Sun begins in the modern days of Yerevan in 2021. Iskuhi is a student living a normal life as a young woman. Everything changes when, on a rainy day, she touches a tree to tie her shoes. As she touches it, thunder falls on the tree that brings her back to the time of Ara the Beautiful. She is back in 809 BC and doesn't understa...
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Fifty Words for Rain
2021 || Paperback || Asha Lemmie || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Now in paperback: A Good Morning America book club pick and New York Times bestseller, Asha Lemmie's debut is a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance in post-World War II Japan.
Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent…Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these f...
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Gafouré
Songs of an African Angel
Paperback || F. Driessen || Brave New Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Gafouré is an ancient river spirit from the Niger river delta. Since times immemorial he has been the guardian of all living creatures in this earthly paradise.
However, when two of his protégés get captured by slave traders and are being sold to work on plantations in the America's, his world gets torn apart. He decides to follow them to the other side of the world.
Three generations later he manages to help them escape to the young Kingdom of the Netherlands, but even here they remain ha...