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Earth is dead, or is it a new start for life?
Impressions of a Nepalese family in Kathmandu during a 6-week visit over the holidays.
Life isn't sweet, but it doesn't have to be completely bitter. It is what we make of it and these poems and stories try to portray just that.That is why I have titled this book Dulces de Coco or Coconut Candies. This is a combination of the stories and poems that I have written. Many of the pieces in this book are inspired by my childhood, the stories my relatives have told me and my culture.
Initiates is a short story set in Brunei. Sylvia and Ted have been invited to a wedding...
The tale of Amina, a young girl who dreams of studying art at a prestigious institute but is according to her strict family tradition marriage off, without her consent. As she tries to adjust to her marital life, she discovers a harrowing truth which makes her take a step which she never dreamed she would...
John Mwangangi is an idealist. He turns his back on a successful legal career in London to return to his home in Migwani, a small, poor town in eastern Kenya. His ambition is to assist his country's development, to create a model that others might emulate. But in trying to rediscover his roots and his very identity, old tensions resurface and new battles have to be fought. John gradually finds himself isolated by irreconcilable demands, excluded from his own culture, never fully admitted to the
Earth is dead, or is it a new start for life?
Impressions of a Nepalese family in Kathmandu during a 6-week visit over the holidays.
Life isn't sweet, but it doesn't have to be completely bitter. It is what we make of it and these poems and stories try to portray just that.That is why I have titled this book Dulces de Coco or Coconut Candies. This is a combination of the stories and poems that I have written. Many of the pieces in this book are inspired by my childhood, the stories my relatives have told me and my culture.
Initiates is a short story set in Brunei. Sylvia and Ted have been invited to a wedding...
The tale of Amina, a young girl who dreams of studying art at a prestigious institute but is according to her strict family tradition marriage off, without her consent. As she tries to adjust to her marital life, she discovers a harrowing truth which makes her take a step which she never dreamed she would...
John Mwangangi is an idealist. He turns his back on a successful legal career in London to return to his home in Migwani, a small, poor town in eastern Kenya. His ambition is to assist his country's development, to create a model that others might emulate. But in trying to rediscover his roots and his very identity, old tensions resurface and new battles have to be fought. John gradually finds himself isolated by irreconcilable demands, excluded from his own culture, never fully admitted to the