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By Ismail Kadare

ISBN-10: 0802145515

ISBN-13: 9780802145512

At the autobahn in Vienna a taxi leaves the line and moves the crash barrier, flinging its female and male passengers out of its again doorways because it spins throughout the air. the motive force can't clarify why he misplaced keep an eye on, he purely says that the mysterious couple within the again seat approximately to kiss.

Set opposed to the tumultuous backdrop and aftermath of the struggle within the Balkans, The coincidence in detail files an affair among humans stuck in every one other's webs. The research into their deaths uncovers a collectively harmful obsession that mirrors the conflicts of the region.

The twist of fate is a destabilising mix of shiny hallucination and chilly truth, via the inaugural winner of the guy Booker foreign Prize.

'The twist of fate can't be set aside, yet richly teases the reader to attempt to appreciate extra of the which means of what, precisely, the cab driving force glimpsed in his rear-view mirror.' autonomous

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8. Halkett, Milton and the Idea of Matrimony, 4–7, 24–30. 9. , 14–16. His main thesis is further confirmed by James Grantham Turner’s important study, One Flesh, which shows that Milton’s thinking on marriage (if not on divorce) is much more liberal than that of most Protestant thinkers, mainline or mystical. 10. 2 (2001): 266–92. ” 11. Elaine Hobby, “A Woman’s Best Setting-out is Silence: the Writings of Hannah Wooley,” in Culture and Society in the Stuart Restoration: Literature, Drama, History, ed.

1, 92. 16. Rachel Speght, A Muzzle for Melastomus, the Cynical Baiter of, and foul mouthed Barker against Eve’s Sex (1617), rpt. in The Broadview Anthology, 399. 466–67) near his heart seems to give her a greater life force. 17. 1 (2001): 22–32. 18. Bathsua Makin, An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts & Tongues, in The Broadview Anthology, 425–27, 430. 19. Anna K. ) part i Masculinity, divorce, and misogyny in Milton’s prose chap t e r 1 The gender of civic virtue Gina Hausknecht Throughout the political and ecclesiastical turmoil of the 1640s Milton observes and laments encroachments on liberty in church government, the family, and monarchy; again and again he deplores the loss of manhood which accompanies and characterizes acquiescence to these institutions.

In one of the most radical and perhaps most anxious passages of the divorce tracts, Tetrachordon affirms the manliness of that pursuit of justice even as it asserts womens’ right to the same justice: The gender of civic virtue 31 The Law is to tender the liberty and human dignity of them that live under the Law, whether it bee the mans right above the woman, or the womans just appeal against wrong, and servitude. But the duties of marriage contain in them a duty of benevolence, which to doe by compulsion against the Soul, where ther can bee neither peace, nor joy, nor love, but an enthrallment to one who either cannot, or will not bee mutual in the godliest and the civilest ends of that society, is the ignoblest, and the lowest slavery that a human shape can bee put to.

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