Sentences with phrase «stories by continent»

Not exact matches

Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (releases November 6, 2012, available for pre-order)-- Kingsolver's new novel takes place in a small - town Tennessee and tells the story of a woman who must confront «her family, her church, her town, her continent, and finally the world at large.»

FIFTY - million - year - old insects preserved in amber are helping to rewrite the story of India's almighty crash into the Eurasian continent, suggesting that for as long as a few million years before the collision, India was connected to Asia by archipelagos.

It's also a love story that's as marred as those old Western fantasies: an innocent teen (Kodi Smit McPhee) is chaperoned by a shifty outlaw (Michael Fassbender) as he seeks his lost love (Caren Pistorious) in a vicious new continent.

«This handsome and emotive two - hander brings together Annette Bening and Jamie Bell for a story of actors divided by age, class and continents, but united by desire that defies definition» — Peter Howell, Toronto Star

The series, executive produced and written by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss, is an epic story of treachery and nobility, set on the continent of Westeros, where summers and winters can last years.

Dan Fogelman's Life Itself centers on a couple (Oscar Isaac & Olivia Wilde) that lead a multi generational love story spanning both decades and continents, from the streets of New York to the Spanish countryside, and are all connected by a single event.

In this very busy story, Holmes and his brother Mycroft (Stephen Fry) hijack the honeymoon of Watson (Jude Law) and his bride (Kelly Reilly) to save them from Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris), and then head to the continent with a gypsy fortune teller (Noomi Rapace) targeted by Moriarty's assassins to take on the master criminal's latest diabolical scheme.

The film portrays four interlocking stories taking place in four countries on three continents, Morocco, Japan, Mexico and the U.S, showing how connected we really are by looking into the lives of seemingly random people around the world.

Return to a continent ravaged by conflict with a familiar - yet - refined tactical RPG battle system, a vibrant and evocative art style that portrays a living canvas of watercolors, and a gripping World War II - inspired story full of momentous triumphs, heartbreaking loss, and unexpected hope for the human spirit.

The film tells the love story of a couple played by Oscar Isaac and Olivia Wilde, told through multiple generations and spanning both decades and continents.

BBY: We want to continue to play a strong role in challenging expectations and assumptions about African writing and to put the continent on the global map by publishing some of its extraordinary stories.

This nagging sense of loss, of displacement, reads similar to the one experienced by the main character in the short story, «The Third and Final Continent,» from Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize - winning collection, Interpreter of Maladies:

Spanning centuries, continents, and a diverse set of characters, these alluringly strange stories are united by each character's struggle with fate.

In other paired stories, an Imperial policeman who is forced to leave the continent after rumors spread of his homosexuality reappears as a doorman in New York City who brings solace to a young betrayed woman; a young girl held hostage in a brothel plots a brutal revenge against the madam who keeps her, and then the madam reappears as a wizened midwife who delivers a baby to a Hindu woman forced to make a terrible choice about the child; a Muslim boy who escapes a train raided by a murderous mob reemerges as a grandfather who has moved to London to be with his family and whose granddaughter struggles to save her marriage after the death of their child; a young cartographer alters a small section of the Radcliffe Line with terrible consequences, and then his boss reappears as a senile old man who sets off in search of a prostitute he often hires.

There are many conflicting stories as to the origin of the Newfoundland — some say he descended from the Great Pyrenees or a «French hound» — but nearly all agree that he originated in Newfoundland and his ancestors were brought there by fisherman from the European continent.

I wanted to be part of that rebrand by sharing my personal stories and genuine experiences as a solo female traveler throughout the continent.

Whether we travel by waterway or on foot through cobbled streets, and whichever of our accommodating hotels we rest our heads in, you'll be sure to soak up the many stories this vast continent has to tell.

Rituals since 1851, Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy Self: Image and Identity, Turner Contemporary, Kent, UK Chercher le Garçon, MAC / VAL, Paris, France In Search of Meaning, Museum de Fundatie, The Netherlands Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s - 1990s, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Making Africa: A continent of Contemporary Design, Vitra Design Museum, Weil Am Rhein, Germany Unravelling Identity: Our Textiles, Our Stories, Textile Museum, The George Washington University Museum, Washington DC, USA Heartbreak Hotel, presented by the Vanhaertens Collection, Venice Biennale, Italy 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Museu Afro Brasil, Sao Paulo, Brazil The Inverted Worlds, BPS 22, Charleroi, Belgium La vida es esto, DA2, Salamanca, Spain

The museum's mission is to reposition Africa as an authority on its own 54 countries and global issues beyond — as a continent no longer plundered by outsiders and force - fed an exogenous narrative, but that is, increasingly, telling its own story.

Update: This story was updated to clarify that the majority of ice loss in Antarctica each year is replaced by new snowfall; The amount of ice loss that is not replaced by snowfall is increasing, adding to the continent's contribution to global sea level rise.