![]() ![]() ![]() Gently imperious yet strikingly beautiful, Frau Messinger, a young British woman married to a much older German, introduces a measure of color into Harry’s otherwise black and white existence. Tracing the reminiscences of a fifty eight year old Irish cinema owner named Harry, the story recounts the years during Harry’s adolescence when he forges an unlikely friendship with an migr couple recently arrived in his small town. ![]() Set in a provincial Irish town against the backdrop of the Second World War, Nights at the Alexandra is a masterpiece of short fiction. Hailed as ‘probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language’ by The New Yorker and ‘an extraordinarily mellifluous writer, seemingly incapable of composing an ungraceful sentence’ by The New York Times Book Review, William Trevor is one of our most elegaic chroniclers of loss. ![]()
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![]() They discussed Afrofuturism and AIDS, Victoria Falls and deviant bodies, whether Serpell hears characters in her head, and whether she sides with robots against humans. On Friday, September 20, 2019-at the new McNally Jackson bookstore in South Street Seaport-Serpell sat down with Sharon Marcus, editor in chief of Public Books, to speak about The Old Drift. ![]() ![]() It made the skin on the back of my neck prickle.” The novel has been awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Speculative Fiction. A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Book. A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Book Review. ![]() Dwight Garner praises Serpell’s The Old Drift as “a dazzling book, as ambitious as any first novel published this decade. The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell: 9781101907153 : Books. ![]() In writing what she wryly calls “the Great Zambian Novel you didn’t know you were waiting for,” Namwali Serpell weaves three separate family timelines-and, stunningly, multiple genres-into a mesmerizing whole. The Old Drift: A Novel Hardcover Maby Namwali Serpell (Author) 1,224 ratings Editors' pick Best Literature & Fiction See all formats and editions Kindle 14.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 7.99 77 Used from 2.32 27 New from 7.92 9 Collectible from 25. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the center of these waves, feel your breathing, your life-breath. Allow yourself to become more and more still. Be aware of the waves and rest seated in the midst of them. Allow them all to come and go, to rise and fall like waves of the ocean. Then notice what sounds and feelings, thoughts and expectations are present. Let your mind be spacious and your heart be kind and soft.Īs you sit, feel the sensations of your body. ![]() ![]() Close your eyes gently and begin by bringing a full, present attention to whatever you feel within you and around you. Let yourself sit upright with the quiet dignity of a king or queen. ![]() Be seated on a cushion or chair, taking an erect yet relaxed posture. “To begin meditation, select a quiet time and place. They’re posted here with a deep bow of gratitude*. These instructions are from Jack’s 1994 Buddha’s little instruction book. More about his many books and ongoing teaching here. He has taught meditation internationally since 1974 and is one of the key teachers to introduce Buddhist mindfulness practice to the West. Jack Kornfield trained as a Buddhist monk in the monasteries of Thailand, India and Burma. ![]() |