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Uprising is a young-adult novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix published by Simon & Schuster in September 2007. The novel is a fictionalized account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire . According to Maureen Paschal of The Washington Post , it "helps reinforce how immigrants have often struggled with hardship and unfairness".
Alberto Pincherle (Italian: [alˈbɛrto ˈpiŋkerle]; 28 November 1907 – 26 September 1990), known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia (US: / m oʊ ˈ r ɑː v i ə,-ˈ r eɪ v-/ moh-RAH-vee-ə, - RAY-, [1] [2] [3] Italian: [moˈraːvja]), was an Italian novelist and journalist.
Uprising, Netflix’s new Korean action-war epic, spans decades as it follows the fraught friendship between Cheon-yeong (Broker’s Gang Dong-won), a nobi slave with a knack for swordsmanship ...
She made her debut as a writer in 2011 with the novel My mother is a river, set in her native land of Abruzzo. In the same year she published the story Lo scargio in Granta Italia. [citation needed] In 2013, she published her second novel, Bella mia, dedicated to and set in L'Aquila.
Human Acts deals with the May 1980 Gwangju Uprising and the death of the young boy Kang Dong-ho. The novel is composed of seven chapters including the final epilogue, with each chapter tracing the passage of time from the incident in the 1980s to the present day.
The resulting list of "100 novels that shaped our world", [1] called the "100 Most Inspiring Novels" by BBC News, [2] was published by the BBC to kick off a year of celebrating literature. [2] [3] The list triggered comments from critics and other news agencies.
Hwang Sok-yong published his next novel, The Old Garden, in 2000. It was published in German in fall 2005 by DTV and in French by Zulma. The English-language edition, called The Old Garden, was published in September 2009 by Seven Stories Press and subsequently in England by Picador Asia under the title The Ancient Garden. The early chapters of ...
At her death, there were over 30 million copies of her twenty-plus novels in print in 22 languages. [1] Twenty-one of her novels appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. [1] Plain did not own a computer, and wrote all of her novels long-hand on a yellow pad. [2] "A disciplined worker, she wrote for several hours in the morning five days ...