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Winter in Sokcho (French: Hiver à Sokcho) is the first novel by Swiss-Korean writer Elisa Shua Dusapin published in 2016. It was translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins into English in 2021. The story follows the interactions of the narrator and a French comic writer during the writer's visit to Sokcho in search for inspiration.
The Roman philosopher Boethius wrote The Consolation of Philosophy in 524 AD (image from a 1385 manuscript) while imprisoned.. Prison literature is the literary genre of works written by an author in unwilling confinement, such as a prison, jail or house arrest. [1]
Critical reception has been mostly positive. [5] [6] [7] Tor.com praised Cold Days and wrote that they viewed it as "one of the best books in the series". [8]Kirkus Reviews gave the work a favorable review but commented that the book would have benefited from "more rigorous copy editing to clean up the continuity errors which continue to riddle the series". [9]
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The Helliconia trilogy is a series of science fiction books by British writer Brian W. Aldiss, set on the Earth-like planet Helliconia.It is an epic chronicling the rise and fall of a civilisation over more than a thousand years as the planet progresses through its incredibly long seasons, which last for centuries.
The book's protagonist, Luterin Shokerandit, is the son of the Keeper of the Wheel of Kharnabar, located above the far north of Helliconia. The Wheel is an extraordinary revolving monastery/prison built into a ring-shaped tunnel with a single entrance and exit, powered entirely by the efforts of the prisoners pulling it along by means of chains ...
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Salle des Martyrs at the Paris Foreign Missions Society.The ladder-like apparatus in the middle is the cangue that was worn by Pierre Borie in captivity.. A cangue (/ k æ ŋ / KANG), in Chinese referred to as a jia or tcha (Chinese: 枷) is a device that was used for public humiliation and corporal punishment in East Asia [1] and some other parts of Southeast Asia until the early years of the ...