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"So, as you see, I am familiar with the case. However, we can't discuss it unless you learn more about some other court cases, so that you can compare your father's trial with other, more baffling cases, and see it in the context of the madness that reigned at the time."In Ján Johanides riveting Slovak novel, you the reader are thrust in medias res, assuming the role of a silent partner in a one-sided conversation with someone you know nothing about. As the pages turn, you must grasp onto significant details to piece together who you are, who the narrator is, and why you have sought him out. As the story unfolds you come to learn that the old archivist, who can't seem to stay on point, has both a tragic history and the keys to unlocking your family's darkest secret. A secret that may or may not involve the Czechoslovak secret police, American and Soviet intelligence, Israeli politics, and a tire full of 90,000 dollars.Set after the fall of communism and the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, casual paranoia permeates the novel as it reveals how the madness of the Communist era has led to the instability of the present. Written in 1995, this haunting novel that evokes the spirit of John Le Carre and the style of Carlos Fuentes shines a searchlight on issues that plague post-Communist Europe today.
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Mennonites --- Family secrets --- Anabaptists --- Baptists --- Christian sects
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Family secrets --- Americans --- Irish Americans --- Widows
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Henrik Ibsen (20th March, 1828 - 23rd May, 1906) is often referred to as the father of realism and ranked just below Shakespeare as Europe's greatest ever playwright especially as his plays are performed most frequently throughout the world after Shakespeare's. He was Norwegian and although set his plays in Norway, he wrote them in Danish and lived most of his professional life in Italy and Germany. His affect on the theatre is still evident today and shapes the distinction of plays being art as opposed to entertainment since he broke down all previous traditions and explored issues, developed characterisation, revealed uncomfortable truths, challenged assumptions and brokedown facades in ourselves as well as society. These factors are clearly demonstrated in the Pillars of Society, a contemporary drama set in a small Norwegian coastal town dominated by shipbuilder Karsten Bernick who is planning a railway to connect the town to the main line and a tract of land he has been secretly buying. His past comes crashing in on him by the return of his brother in law who had gone to America to take the blame for Bernick stealing family business money and having an affair with an actress and the return of the love of his life who he had rejected for his current wealthy wife. Ibsen skilfully builds on these characters to provide a gripping tragedy underlining the ways of the rich and corrupt and Ibsen's conclusions in this play were a cause of great controversy and much surprise.
Man-woman relationships. --- Norwegian drama. --- Family secrets.
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Family secrets --- Biographers --- Autobiography --- Secrets, Family --- Secrecy --- Authors --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Authorship --- History and criticism --- Technique
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Reconstruye diferentes culturas cinematográficas que en distintas épocas han recreado en el cine los cuentos así como las nociones poetológicas de Julio Cortázar. Incluye DVD de la película "La cifra impar" (1962) de Manuel Antin.
Cine y literatura. --- Motion pictures and literature. --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- Cortázar, Julio --- Кортасар, Хулио --- קורטאסר, חוליו --- קןרטאזאר, חוליו --- Cortázar, Jules Florencio --- Cortázar, Julio Florencio --- Denis, Julio --- Family secrets. --- Secrets, Family --- Secrecy
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"Bill Griffeth, longtime genealogy buff, takes a DNA test that has an unexpected outcome: 'If the results were correct, it meant that the family I had spent years documenting was not my own.' Bill undertakes a quest to solve the mystery of his origins, a quest which will shake his sense of identity. As he takes us on his journey, we learn about choices made by his ancestors, parents, and others--and we see Bill measure and weigh his own difficult choices as he confronts the past"--Publisher's description.
Griffith family. --- Genetic genealogy. --- Family secrets. --- Généalogie génétique. --- Secrets de famille. --- Families. --- DNA and genealogy --- DNA genealogy --- DNA in genealogy --- Genetics and genealogy --- Genetics in genealogy --- Genealogy --- Secrets, Family --- Secrecy --- Families --- Family life --- Family --- Family relationships --- Family structure --- Relationships, Family --- Structure, Family --- Social institutions --- Birth order --- Domestic relations --- Home --- Households --- Kinship --- Marriage --- Matriarchy --- Parenthood --- Patriarchy --- Social aspects --- Social conditions
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"Calila: The Later Novels of Carmen Martín Gaite explores the last six novels by Spain's most honored contemporary woman writer. Its scholarship is enriched by the voice of Calila herself-as Brown called Martín Gaite, who was a dear friend-as they conversed and exchanged letters during the composition of the novels. The book opens with an introduction to Martín Gaite's life and literature and ends with a consideration of her legacy. Each central chapter analyzes a later novel in its historical, biographical, and critical contexts. From the young adult fantasy Caperucita en Manhattan (Red Riding Hood in Manhattan) to the post-Transition epistolary masterpiece Nubosidad variable (Variable Cloud), the Transition-era saga La Reina de las Nieves (The Farewell Angel), the Proustian reminiscence Lo raro es vivir (Living's the Strange Thing), the narrative tapestry Irse de casa (Leaving Home), and the memoir of family secrets Los parentescos (Family Relations), these fascinating novels evoke themes that resonate today"--
Martín Gaite, Carmen. --- Martín Gaite, Carmen --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Carmen Martín Gaite, contemporary Spanish novel, literature by women, Spanish literature, 20th and 21st century, Spanish literature in translation, Martín Gaite, family secrets, Caperucita en Manhattan, ed Riding Hood in Manhattan, Red Riding Hood in Manhattan, Nubosidad variable, Variable Cloud, La Reina de las Nieves, The Farewell Angel, Lo raro es vivir, Living's the Strange Thing, Irse de casa, eaving Home, Leaving Home, Family Relations, Los parentescos.
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The articles in this Special Issue of Genealogy titled “Focus of Family Historians: How Ancestor Research Affects Self-Understanding and Well-Being” cover topics including the psychosocial motivations that impel family history research, its therapeutic and healing aspects, and the emotional outcomes of dealing with unexpected findings. Broader issues, such as the ubiquity of ancestral acknowledgement and veneration throughout history and its links with religion are also explored. Papers include scholarly interpretations of case-based material, empirical research, and interpretive literature reviews emanating from a wide range of social science disciplines.
family history --- psychology --- ancestry --- identity construction --- family tree --- war trauma --- attachment --- identity --- immigration --- forgetting --- emotional geography --- context --- environments --- homelands --- heritage --- genealogical motivation --- family history and identity --- family history and altruism --- family history and curiosity --- secular rituals --- post-religious --- sacred stories --- pilgrimage --- family ritual --- ceremony --- historical consciousness --- family history research --- family historians --- temporal orientation --- case study --- adoption --- late-discovery --- family secrets --- shock and losses --- historical trauma --- traumatic reenactment --- psychoanalysis --- infant attachment --- stress biology --- Adverse Childhood Experiences --- genealogy --- depression --- trauma --- prolonged grief disorder --- adverse childhood experiences --- alcoholic --- alcohol use disorder --- bereavement --- biological identity --- family identity --- DNA testing --- thematic analysis --- biogeographic ancestry --- n/a --- archaeology --- bereavement studies --- continuing bonds --- problematic stuff --- ancestors --- personhood
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