From the bestselling author of the 'dazzling historical saga' (The Washington Post ), Moloka'i, comes the irresistible story of a young immigrant bride in a ramshackle town that becomes a great modern city'In Korea in those days, newborn girls were not deemed important enough to be graced with formal names, but were instead given nicknames, which often reflected the parents' feelings on the birth of a daughter: I knew a girl named Anger, and another called Pity. As for me, my parents named me Regret.'
Honolulu is the rich, unforgettable story of a young 'picture bride' who journeys to Hawai'i in 1914 in search of a better life.Instead of the affluent young husband and chance at an education that she has been promised, she is quickly married off to a poor, embittered laborer who takes his frustrations out on his new wife. Renaming herself Jin, she makes her own way in this strange land, finding both opportunity and prejudice. With the help of three of her fellow picture brides, Jin prospers along with her adopted city, now growing from a small territorial capital into the great multicultural city it is today. But paradise has its dark side, whether it's the daily struggle for survival in Honolulu's tenements, or a crime that will become the most infamous in the islands' history.With its passionate knowledge of people and places in Hawai'i far off the tourist track, Honolulu is most of all the spellbinding tale of four women in a new world, united by dreams, disappointment, sacrifices, and friendship.; March 2009.
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ISBN: 739. Edition: 1. Read online, or download in secure ePub format. Title: Honolulu. Author: Alan Brennert.Imprint: St. Martin's Press. Subject categories.ISBNs.
343. 739About The AuthorALAN BRENNERT is the author of Moloka'i, which was a 2006-2007 BookSense Reading Group Pick and won the 2006 Bookies Award, sponsored by the Contra Costa Library, for the Book Club Book of the Year (over My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult; The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson; and A Million Little Pieces, by James Frey). It appeared on the BookSense, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Honolulu Advertiser, and (for 16 weeks) NCIBA bestseller lists. Alan has also won an Emmy Award for his work as a writer-producer on the television series L.A. Law and a Nebula Award for his story 'MaQui.'
He lives in Sherman Oaks, California.
By: Neal PollackPublisher: Akashic BooksCopyright Year: 2005-09-01Pages: 258Format: PDFISBN: 244Available Language: English, Spanish, And FrenchCategory: FictionDESCRIPTION: “If ever a city was made to be the home of noir, it’s Chicago. These writers go straight to Chicago’s noir heart” (Aleksandar Hemon, National Book Award finalist and New York Times–bestselling author of The Lazarus Project). Chicago’s rough-and-tumble tough-guy reputation may have been replaced in recent years by the image of a tourist- and family-friendly town—but that original city isn’t gone. The hard-bitten streets once represented by James Farrell and Nelson Algren may have shifted locales, and they may be populated by different ethnicities, but Chicago is still a place where people struggle to survive and where, for many, crime is the only means for their survival. The stories in Chicago Noir reclaim that territory, in tales of hired killers and jazz men, drunks and dreamers, corrupt cops and ticket scalpers and junkies, of a place where hard cases face their sad fates, and pay for their sins in blood. Brand new stories by Neal Pollack, Achy Obejas, Alexai Galaviz-Budziszewski, Adam Langer, Joe Meno, Peter Orner, Kevin Guilfoile, Bayo Ojikutu, Jeffery Renard Allen, Luciano Guerriero, Claire Zulkey, Andrew Ervin, M.K.
Meyers, Todd Dills, C.J. Sullivan, Daniel Buckman, Amy Sayre-Roberts, and Jim Arndorfer. “Chicago Noir is a legitimate heir to the noble literary tradition of the greatest city in America.” —Stephen Elliott, author of Happy Baby. By: Joe MenoPublisher: Akashic BooksCopyright Year: 2015-08-10Pages: 288Format: PDFISBN: 180Available Language: English, Spanish, And FrenchCategory: FictionDESCRIPTION: 'In this superior entry in Akashic's noir series, Meno offers nearly a century of Chicago crime fiction.Familiar bylines abound: Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Sherwood Anderson, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith (with an excerpt from her novel The Price of Salt), Stewart M. Kaminsky, Sara Paretsky. Others may be less familiar to mystery specialists, but all turn in impressive performances.'
-Publishers Weekly, Starred review 'Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, and Sandra Cisneros are not crime-fiction writers, and yet their Chicago certainly embodies the individual-crushing ethos endemic to noir. Meno also includes stories from writers who could easily have been overlooked (Percy Spurlark Parker, Hugh Holton) to ensure that diverse voices, and neighborhoods, are represented. Add in smart and essential choices from Fredric Brown, Sara Paretsky, and Stuart Kaminsky, and you have not an anthology not for crime-fiction purists, perhaps, but a thought-provoking document all the same.' -Booklist 'The fifteen short stories comprising Chicago Noir: The Classics, which are knowledgeably compiled and deftly edited by Joe Meno, are true gems of the noir literary tradition.Chicago Noir: The Classics is a consistently entertaining and will prove to be an enduringly popular addition to community library Mystery/Suspense collections.' -Midwest Book Review 'I've always enjoyed reading noir. Dark, ironic mysteries are a good read to me.
Since this collection includes old classics as well as some new stories, I knew it would be good.I wasn't disappointed.' -Journey of a Bookseller 'Chicago Noir The Classics does everything anthologies and noir are supposed to, but this title achieves an unheralded goal that deserves notice.This is wonderful diversity, coming both unexpected and unhearalded. Anthologies are supposed to convey a sense of having covered the territory, Joe Meno has. Ethnically diverse city, ethnically diverse plots. Better, Chicago Noir The Classics showcases diversity as normal, everyday.
This adds inescapable satisfaction to a sense of the editor's having covered the territory.' -La Bloga 'A worthy addition to the Akashic Books noir series.' -Book Chase Although Los Angeles may be considered the most quintessentially 'noir' American city, this volume reveals that pound-for-pound, Chicago has historically been able to stand up to any other metropolis in the noir arena. Classic reprints from: Harry Stephen Keeler, Sherwood Anderson, Max Allan Collins, Richard Wright, Nelson Algren, Fredric Brown, Patricia Highsmith, Barry Gifford, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Sara Paretsky, Percy Spurlark Parker, Sandra Cisneros, Hugh Holton, and Stuart Dybek. From the introduction by Joe Meno: 'More corrupt than New York, less glamorous than LA, Chicago has more murders per capita than any other city its size. With its sleek skyscrapers bisecting the fading sky like an unspoken threat, Chicago is the closest metropolis to the mythical city of shadows as first described in the work of Chandler, Hammett, and Cain.
Only in Chicago do instituted color lines offer generation after generation of poverty and violence, only in Chicago do the majority of governors do prison time, only in Chicago do the dead actually vote twice. 'Chicago-more than the metropolis that gave the world Al Capone, the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre, the death of John Dillinger, the crimes of Leopold and Loeb, the horrors of John Wayne Gacy, the unprecedented institutional corruption of so many recent public officials, more than the birthplace of Raymond Chandler-is a city of darkness.
This darkness is not an act of over-imagination. It's the unadulterated truth. It's a pointed though necessary reminder of the grave tragedies of the past and the failed possibilities of the present. Fifty years in the future, I hope these stories are read only as fiction, as somewhat distant fantasy. Here's hoping for some light.'
SalernoPublisher: McFarlandCopyright Year: 2007-05-14Pages: 196Format: PDFISBN: 905Available Language: English, Spanish, And FrenchCategory: Social ScienceDESCRIPTION: 'Of interest.beautifully written and organized.Salerno has a deep appreciation for these works and weaves them into his book with great skill.' -Contemporary Sociology Between 1915 and 1935 the University of Chicago was the center for the production of innovative sociological research that unearthed the marginalized existence of unconventional Americans. Referred to as the Chicago school monographs by social historians, these works brought acclaim to the country's premiere graduate program in sociology. Working at the shadowy margins of the city, these Chicago school scholars dramatically examined the lives of delinquents, prostitutes, gangsters, and homeless men. Their work harmonized with narratives of proletarian and pulp fiction and the serialized newspaper accounts of urban vice and deviance. This book offers a survey of some of these key monographs such as The Unadjusted Girl, The Hobo, The Jack-Roller and The Taxi Dance Hall. By: Joseph ScapellatoPublisher: Farrar, Straus and GirouxCopyright Year: 2019-02-05Pages: 320Format: PDFISBN: 547Available Language: English, Spanish, And FrenchCategory: FictionDESCRIPTION: 'Scapellato's blend of existential noir, absurdist humor, literary fiction, and surreal exploration of performance art merges into something special.
The Made-Up Man is a rare novel that is simultaneously smart and entertaining.' —Gabino Iglesias, NPR Stanley had known it was a mistake to accept his uncle Lech’s offer to apartment-sit in Prague—he’d known it was one of Lech’s proposals, a thinly veiled setup for some invasive, potentially dangerous performance art project. But whatever Lech had planned for Stanley, it would get him to Prague and maybe offer a chance to make things right with T after his failed attempt to propose. Stanley can take it. He can ignore their hijinks, resist being drafted into their evolving, darkening script. As the operation unfolds it becomes clear there’s more to this performance than he expected; they know more about Stanley’s state of mind than he knows himself.
He may be able to step over chalk outlines in the hallway, may be able to turn away from the women acting as his mother or the men performing as his father, but when a man made up to look like Stanley begins to play out his most devastating memory, he won’t be able to stand outside this imitation of his life any longer. Immediately and wholly immersive, Joseph Scapellato’s debut novel, The Made-Up Man, is a hilarious examination of art’s role in self-knowledge, a sinister send-up of self-deception, and a big-hearted investigation into the cast of characters necessary to help us finally meet ourselves. By: Michael HarveyPublisher: Vintage Crime/Black LizardCopyright Year: 2008-07Pages: 303Format: PDFISBN: 281Available Language: English, Spanish, And FrenchCategory: FictionDESCRIPTION: A former Chicago cop and tough, street-smart private detective, Michael Kelly is hired by his former partner, John Gibbons, to solve an eight-year-old rape and battery case, a crime that is complicated by Gibbons's own murder, the mob, a serial killer, the Chicago mean streets, and his own double-crossing friends. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. By: Samuel ShimonPublisher: Akashic BooksCopyright Year: 2018-08-07Pages: 293Format: PDFISBN: 542Available Language: English, Spanish, And FrenchCategory: FictionDESCRIPTION: 'Among them these writers encompass, if not a Baghdad entire, then at least a Baghdad of diverse experiences and perspectives, and absolutely a Baghdad focused on the Arabic world and not the Western.'
-NPR Books 'Characters in this collection are frequently on the receiving end of unpleasant epiphanies. And as this engaging group of stories amply demonstrates, betrayal-whether by authorities, religious leaders, neighbors, colleagues, or liberators-is a subject that Iraqis know all too well.' -Los Angeles Review of Books 'This anthology's status as perhaps the first collection of Iraqi crime fiction ever published makes it a landmark.' -Publishers Weekly 'The overall effect of this gathering of stories is kaleidoscopic: shifting fragments that, coming together in the collection, create a sense of Baghdad's uneasily beating heart.It is a superbly multidimensional, many-voiced, defiant collection.' -Banipal 'Baghdad Noir is the latest addition to the simply outstanding 'Noir' anthology series from Akashic Books.A simply fascinating and at times compulsively driven read.' -Midwest Book Review 'Baghdad Noir is a monumental achievement for Akashic's long-running Noir series. The collection goes so far beyond the Iraq most of us have been exposed to over the last twenty years and offers up a vision of this important world city in all its complexity and humanity.This is a vital book, in every sense of the word.'
-CrimeReads, included in the Best International Crime Fiction of 2018 list 'An engrossing collection of crime stories all set in various districts of Baghdad.Presented with a detailed map of the ancient city to illustrate where all the stories are based, the plots are all well-executed and offer various takes on the trusted genre.' -The National (UAE newspaper) Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.
Now, one of the world's most war-torn cities is portrayed though a noir lens in this chilling story collection. Brand-new stories by: Sinan Antoon, Ali Bader, Mohammed Alwan Jabr, Nassif Falak, Dheya al-Khalidi, Hussain al-Mozany, Layla Qasrany, Hayet Raies, Muhsin al-Ramli, Ahmed Saadawi, Hadia Said, Salima Salih, Salar Abdoh, and Roy Scranton. From the introduction by Samuel Shimon: While all Iraqis will readily agree that their life has always been noir, the majority of the stories in Baghdad Noir are set in the years following the American invasion of 2003, though one story is set in 1950 and three are set in the 1970s and 1980s.
Yet it is this recent history of Iraq-over the last few decades-that serves to inform its present.Cementing the destruction of Iraqi life was Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. But that was hardly the end of Iraq's noir story. In April 2003, the US invasion, though it precipitated the end of Saddam's dictatorial rule, killed off any possibility of a secular, modern Iraq once and for all. Taken as a whole, the stories in Baghdad Noir testify to the enduring resilience of the Iraqi spirit amid an ongoing, real-life milieu of despair that the literary form of noir can at best only approximate. Yet the contributions here manage to hold their own as individual stories, where the rich traditions of intersecting cultures transcend the immediate political reality-even while being simultaneously informed by it. Much like the diverse tapestry of cultures that join together on the banks of the Tigris to form the City of Peace, Baghdad Noir reveals that there's nothing monolithic or ordinary about the voices of its writers. NgPublisher: Akashic BooksCopyright Year: 2018-12-04Pages:Format: PDFISBN: 924Available Language: English, Spanish, And FrenchCategory: FictionDESCRIPTION: 'Hong Kong Noir digs below the financial centre's gleaming surface to unearth stories of the city's ghosts and spirits.The stories touch on major points in Hong Kong modern history: the horrors of Japanese occupation, post-war poverty, the economic boom under the British, the city's return to Chinese sovereignty, and the tensions of the 2014 'umbrella movement' occupation of key thoroughfares by pro-democracy activists.
What better way to tie together the present and the past-the living and the dead-than through ghost stories?' -South China Morning Post 'The history of Hong Kong, once a fishing village, encompasses piracy, the opium trade, prostitution, corruption, espionage and revolutionary plots; grist for the 14 dark tales in Hong Kong Noir.' -BBC Culture 'Like all good love songs, the stories in Hong Kong Noir are dark.Everyone in Hong Kong Noir is on the move. Some come looking for money or romance or home. They may be mainlanders or Hong Kong born, refugees or tourists, high-flying bankers or American soldiers out for a little R&R. Hong Kongers every one of them.'
-Bookish Asia 'Hong Kong Noir is a panorama of the city in its multiplicity of forms, from lush mountains in country parks, to the concrete jungles of shops and tenements, to the upscale luxury apartments in secluded coves.Ultimately, it is the memories of Hong Kong's human and otherworldly terrain, as portrayed by these varied narratives, that proves so beautifully haunting.' -Cha Journal 'Crime fiction has to work hard to compete in a city where dismembered bodies make conspicuous appearances in news headlines.The result is natives and expats mingle with returning Cantonese and displaced mainlanders, each (often correctly) suspicious of the others' motives.As far as the city itself is concerned, this collection represents Hong Kong to its very core.' -Asian Review of Books 'Now in the 14th year of its Noir series-which has collected original stories from Brooklyn to Istanbul to Lagos-Akashic has assembled a delightfully dark collection of fiction from Hong Kong, a city where talk is cheap and cash is still king.' -Ritz-Carlton Magazine Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city.
In Hong Kong Noir, fourteen of the city's finest authors explore the dark heart of the Pearl of the Orient in haunting stories of depravity and despair. Brand-new stories by: Jason Y. Ng, Xu Xi, Marshall Moore, Brittani Sonnenberg, Tiffany Hawk, James Tam, Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang, Christina Liang, Feng Chi-shun, Charles Philipp Martin, Shannon Young, Shen Jian, Carmen Suen, and Ysabelle Cheung. From the introduction by Jason Y. Ng & Susan Blumberg-Kason: What will Hong Kong look like in five years, ten years, or thirty years-when the 'one country, two systems' promise expires?
It's impossible to foresee. Hong Kong's future may not be within our control, but some things are. We can continue to write about our beloved city and work our hardest to preserve it in words. When we asked our contributors to write their noir stories, we didn't give them specific content guidelines other than to make sure their stories end on a dark note.
What we received was a brilliant collection of ghost stories, murder mysteries, domestic dramas, cops-and-robbers tales, and historical thrillers that capture Hong Kong in all its dark glory. The result is every bit as eclectic, quirky, and delightful as the city they write about. By: John GuzlowskiPublisher: Kasva Press LLCCopyright Year: 2018-12-17Pages: 328Format: PDFISBN: Available Language: English, Spanish, And FrenchCategory: FictionDESCRIPTION: Fiction. Detective and Police Procedural. Chicago, May 30, 1956: On a quiet corner in a working-class immigrant neighborhood, a heavy suitcase is discovered on the sidewalk late at night.
Inside is the body of a young boy, naked and hacked into pieces. Two hard-drinking Chicago detectives are assigned to the case: Hank Purcell, who still has flashbacks ten years after the Battle of the Bulge, and his partner Marvin Bondarowicz, a wise-cracking Jewish cop who loves trouble as much as he loves booze. Their investigation takes them through the dark streets of Chicago in search of an even darker secret-as more and more suitcases turn up.
'Every detective has a case that haunts him. For the Chicago cops Hank Purcell and Marvin Bondarowicz, that would be the 'dead kid in the suitcase' whose broken body epitomizes 'some kind of evil that was one-of-a-kind, fresh and original down to its buttons.' In writing SUITCASE CHARLIE (Kasva Press, paper, $14.95), John Guzlowski was inspired by a true crime that horrified his city in 1955 and retains the power to shock us today.
Even the hard-bitten police lieutenant in charge of the fictionalized case is shaken by the singular brutality of the unknown killer. 'And when you find him,' he tells his officers, 'I want you to hurt him.' The sheer cruelty of the case's multiple murders demands coarse language, at which Guzlowski excels. But in describing the saintly Sisters of St. Joseph nuns who live near the murder scene as 'tough broads, eyes like razors,' he lets us know that, back in the day, the city of Chicago was an all-around rough town.' -Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times 'SUITCASE CHARLIE (Kasva, 321 pages, $14.95), a tough-as-rusty-nails police procedural by John Guzlowski, is set in Chicago in the spring of 1956-when the radio is playing hits by Frank Sinatra and Chuck Berry, many citizens are smoking Chesterfields and Lucky Strikes, and Dragnet and General Electric Theater are TV favorites.
Guzlowski's book, the 'second city' is being terrorized by a series of child killings in which the small victims are drained of blood, dismembered and stuffed into luggage left in public spaces.Each environment the detectives visit seems spookier than the last in a narrative driven by lyrical anxiety. Little by little, Purcell-treading the blurred line between burnout and breakdown-perceives these sickening new crimes as the fruit of diseased notions and lingering hatreds from earlier decades and even centuries.
'I thought all of that bad s-would just disappear when the war ended,' Purcell tells his wife. 'And it didn't. It's still here.'
'-Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal.