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Caucasia (1998) is the first novel written by American author Danzy Senna.It is the coming-of-age story of two multiracial girls, Birdie Lee and her sister Cole, who have a Caucasian mother and an African-American father.
Allan R. Bomhard (born July 10 1943) [1] is an American independent scholar writing books and predominantly self-published papers in the field of comparative linguistics and Buddhism. He is part of a small group of proponents of the Nostratic hypothesis , according to which the Indo-European languages , Uralic languages , Afroasiatic languages ...
"The Prisoner of the Caucasus" (Russian: Кавказский пленник, romanized: Kavkazsky plennik), also translated to "A Prisoner in the Caucausus", is an 1872 ...
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In 1968, Joe graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor's degree in English. He started teaching at Sunnyside High School [9] in Tucson, Arizona.Joe left teaching and was employed in mineral exploration work from 1972 to 1976, working all over the western U.S. as well as in Mexico and Spain.
Caucasian Journey is a travel book written by the American foreign correspondent Negley Farson, describing his journey in the mountains of the western Caucasus in 1929. [1] [2] Farson undertook the journey in the company of Alexander Wicksteed, a writer and adventurer. It was not until two decades after their expedition that Farson sat down ...
The Cossacks is believed to be somewhat autobiographical, partially based on Tolstoy's experiences in the Caucasus during the last stages of the Caucasian War. [6] Tolstoy had a wild time in his youth, engaging in sex with numerous women, heavy drinking, and excessive gambling; many argue Tolstoy used his own past as inspiration for the protagonist Olenin.
[6] 3:AM Magazine 's Susan Tomaselli described it as "part Swiftian, part Borgesian, entences full of Garcia Marquez and Kafka and with more than the occasional nod to Italo Calvino." [12] Publishers Weekly deemed the book "virtuosic" and described it as "a mischievous mix of García Márquez magical realism and Tristram Shandy typographical ...