Sandra Kasturi Boeken

An orphanage for wayward stories. A labyrinth of secrets. A home on the border of reality...Open each door to find a world of magic and menace waiting for you, if you dare.

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island. The story is told from the perspective of 15-year-old Ralph Rover, one of three boys shipwrecked on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. Ralph and his two companions - 18-year-old Jack Martin and 13-year-old Peterkin Gay - are the sole survivors of the shipwreck. At first, boys have to manage how to feed themselves, what to drink, and how the resolve clothing and shelter, coping with having to rely on their own resources. As the boys adopt to the situation, they start dealing with new difficulties, such as conflicting with pirates, fighting with native Polynesians, and dealing with Christian missionaries and their conversion efforts.

Girls and boys disappear; couples caught in the heat and suppressed rage of urban life are haunted by the ghosts of their own making; neighbourhoods drift in the murky atmosphere of buried emotions, where the echoes of distrust and dissonance prove that something just isn't...right. These strange stories gather and weave themselves together into a wreath of memories, rife with an atmospheric and ominous creep redolent of Shirley Jackson. This eerie collection illustrates the disconnect amongst people and the places they inhabit - the gap that allows the supernatural to flourish.

PAGE-TURNING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER: For fans of Paula Hawkins, Laura Lippman, Alex Michaelides, and A.J. Finn, this is an exciting new addition in the psychological thriller genre. SECRETS, LIES, AND A TWIST YOU WON'T SEE COMING THE PERFECT SUMMER NOVEL: Publishing just in time for summer must-read roundups, this is the ideal thriller for the beach-read season. EXPLORES DEEPER THEMES OF LONELINESS AND SHAME: The main character is haunted by his past, and his desperate need for resolution and absolution increases page after page. FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF TROVE: Described as "lyrical, evocative and painstakingly honest...a treasure," by author Andre Dubus III FOR READERS WHO ENJOYED: Ann Leary's The Good House, Laura Lippman's Dream Girl, Aimee Molloy's Goodnight Beautiful. Resides in Arlington, MA.

The Soviet Union and Cuba (1987) examines the thesis that Cuba acted as an extension of Soviet foreign policy or surrogate of the USSR in the Third World. The Soviet-Cuban link is assessed in four conflicts: Angola, Ethiopia, Grenada and Nicaragua. číst celé