Kashgar, China, is one of the settings for Suzanne Joinson's new book that interwines the lives of missionaries in the s with contemporary Londoners. Trip Lit: June In this richly crafted fictional debut, author Suzanne Joinson straddles time and geography with the interwoven tale of three missionaries in rural China in the s and a young woman and a homeless Yemeni man in contemporary London. From this portentous beginning, their odyssey unravels through a series of encounters with local women, Chinese and Central Asian merchants and functionaries, and fellow Western missionaries.
At its heart, this exquisite novel celebrates the gifts that travel into far-off cultures confers: the displacements that throw into resilient relief our transcendent human connections. When the scientist goes missing, a farce of mistaken identities and misdirected dreams unfurls, gently skewering academics, industrialists, socialites, and philanthropists in bright Aegean sunlight. After years living in the United States, food and travel writer Salma Abdelnour moved back to her hometown of Beirut, Lebanon, where she attempts to pick up the threads of a life her family left a generation ago in Jasmine and Fire.
In an effort to fill gaps in his historical knowledge and experience the times and places that changed history, Charlie Schroeder, in Man of War, travels across America to participate with military reenactors in such varied battles as the storming of a Roman fort in Arkansas and the German advance on Stalingrad during World War II in Colorado.
While the adventures of Burton, Stanley, and Livingstone received much acclaim during their lifetimes, the exceptional explorations of their contemporary Heinrich Barth have been almost forgotten.
In this dead-on delightful novel about a three-day weekend wedding on an exclusive island off the coast of Cape Cod, deep-rooted infatuations burst into outrageous misbehavior, and the isolated enclave becomes the stage for a champagne-fueled, saltwater-scented comedy of upper-crust New England manners and mores.
