A collection of stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller. It features the minor official who misplaces his nose, & the downtrodden clerk whose life is changed by the acquisition of a splendid new overcoat. ...

Creates a gallery of narrative portraits
- mute children, laundering women, Moldovan homosexuals, beggars, pickpockets, peasants,
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The staggeringly different toilets to be found abroad can confound & frustrate even the most intrepid travellers. This unique guidebook gives solid & humorous advice on using the multitudes of public facilities -- from how to actually flush a high-tech toilet in Japan to etiquette when using a Chinese unisex public trench. ...

Challenges conventional dietary wisdom
- that grains should be the centrepiece of your diet
- & explains why reducing or removing

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Returning home from the Korean war in 1954, the repressed photographer Sonny Burns (Jeremy Davies) strikes up an unlikely friendship with the confident & outgoing Gunner Casselman (Ben Affleck). Dominated by his religious fanatic of a mother, Sonny envies Gunner his relaxed home life & sexual experience. While Sonny tries to dump his long-term girlfriend, Buddy (Amy Locane), Gunner pursues Jewish art student Marty (Rachel Pilcher). Sonny's mother resents Gunner's influence, which culminates in Marty fixing up Sonny, who is desperate to lose his virginity, with her experienced college friend, Gale. ...

When Duncan Fallowell was left some money by a friend, he decided to put into practice a long held idea
- to travel as far as
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