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Søren Frank

"We live in an age of migration and more and more authors have migrant backgrounds. Migration and Literature offers a thorough and thought-provoking examination of the thematic and formal role of migration in four contemporary and canonized novelists: Gunter Grass, Milan Kundera, Salman Rushdie, and Jan Kjaerstad. This book examines how these novelists reflect, problematize, and "resolve" the problems set by the migratory world and analyzes how the novels employ discursive strategies which emphasize their migratory and homeless form."--Jacket.

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Matjaž Klemenčič and Mitja Žagar

"At the end of the twentieth century, interregional hostilities in the former Yugoslavia culminated with Slobodan Milosevic's campaign of ethnic cleansing, NATO intervention in the region, and, ultimately, revolution. But these were just the latest episodes of upheaval in a region rocked by ethnic violence for centuries. From the settlement of the South Slavs in the sixth century to the crisis and democratization in the 1980s and the disintegration of the country in the early 1990s, The Former Yugoslavia's Diverse Peoples traces the bloody history of the region through to the fragile alliances of its present-day countries."--Jacket.

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Wang Tao

Presents the political and cultural history of China from early human fossil remains to modern times. Includes a time line relating events in China to events in the rest of the world.

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Jude Deveraux

Celebrated chef Kady Long finds herself transported back in time to nineteenth-century Colorado, where she is tricked into marrying the man she saves from hanging, a man who harbors a painful secret about his past. "Kady lleva una vida normal y feliz, trabajando en el restaurante de su futura suegra, pero está intrigada por la persistente imagen de un misterioso jinete que la visita en sueños. Un día se ve envuelta en un fantástico viaje al pasado, durante el cual descubrirá el significado de esos sueños. Sus aventuras en un antiguo pueblo le enseñarán que el pasado no debe olvidarse, pues contiene la clave para encontrar la pasión."--P. [4] of cover.