From Sioux Falls to Khartoum from Kyoto to Darwin; from the panchayat forests to the Giant's Causeway; in taxis & at bus stops in kitchens & sleigh beds haystacks & airports-people are kissing one another The sublime kiss The ambiguous kiss The broken kiss The kiss that changes a life Far from the scripted passion of Hollywood this uniquely human gesture carries within it the possibility for infinite shades of meaning & it does not stop for anything-not war revolution or natural disaster In The Kiss authors like Nick Flynn Kristen Radtke & Pico Iyer explore our quest to bridge the gulf between ourselves & others through this fleeting physical connection & to uncover the depths contained in words like tenderness passion & love ...

One of Chekhov's most admired stories ' The Kiss' is joined in this volume by five equally celebrated tales in a br&-new translation by Hugh Aplin ' The Lady with the Little Dog' ' Ward Number Six' ' The Black Monk' ' The House with the Mezzanine' & ' The Peasants'
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A heartwarming & refreshing debut novel that proves one thing there's not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick Such a fun read Original & sexy & sensitive (Roxane Gay) 336 pages Hoang Helen ...

Arnold Wesker's perennially popular play The Kitchen will be revived at the National Theatre in October 2011 Set in the basement kitchen of a large restaurant thirty chefs waitresses & kitchen porters slowly begin the day preparing to serve lunch The central story tells of a frustrated love affair between a high-spirited young German chef Peter & a married English waitress Monique ...

Classic cookery writing from the award-winning food writer & author of bestselling autobiography Toast' The food in " The Kitchen Diaries" is simply what I eat at home The stuff I make for myself for friends & family for Sunday lunch & for snacks These are meals I make when I am having mates over or when I want to surprise seduce or show off This is what I cook when I'm feeling energetic lazy hungry or late This is the food that makes up my life both the Monday to Friday stuff & that for weekends & special occasions' Much of it is what you might call fast food but some of it is unapologetically long slow cooking But without exception every single recipe in this book is a doddle to cook A walk in the park A piece of p' Fast food slow food big eats little eats quick pasta suppers family roasts & even Christmas lunch It is simply my stuff what I cook & eat every day' ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The combustible setting of a busy restaurant kitchen provides much drama & humour in this 1961 feature film directed by Oscar winner James Hill & adapted from Arnold Wesker&s celebrated play Featuring outstanding performances by Carl Mohner Tom Bell & Eric Pohlmann among many others The Kitchen is presented here in a br&-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio In the business end of a kitchen a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task A microcosm of the world the kitchen looms around & encloses its workers; they include Peter the German cook who is in love with waitress Monica & constantly asks her to leave her husband The pressure of the day becomes unendurable & when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief & pain cause him to run berserk! ...

You must not become too friendly with them' she said They are not the same as us' How?' I asked How are they not the same?' When seven-year-old Irish orphan Lavinia is transported to Virginia to work in the kitchen of a wealthy plantation owner she is absorbed into the life of the kitchen house & becomes part of the family of black slaves whose fates are tied to the plantation But Lavinia's skin will always set her apart whether she wishes it or not & as she grows older she will be torn between the life that awaits her as a white woman & the people she knows as kin A compelling powerful & poignant coming-of-age story about the fragility of familyand where love & loyalty prevail ...

I became what I am today at the age of twelve I remember the precise moment crouching behind a mud wall on a frigid winter day in 1975 looking into a deserted alley It's wrong what they say about the past about how you can bury it because the past claws its way out I realize I've been looking into that alley for the last 26 years Afghanistan is a divided country on the verge of war & two childhood friends are about to be torn apart It's a beautiful afternoon in Kabul & the skies are full of the excitement & joy of a kite flying tournament But neither Hassan or Amir can foresee the terrible incident which will shatter their lives forever Khaled Hosseini's first & international best-selling novel has now been adapted into a stunning stage adaptation by Matthew Spangler This edition was published for the production at Wyndham's Theatre London from 21 December 2016 ...

Afghanistan 1975 Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament & his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon an event that is to shatter their lives After the Russians invade & the family is forced to flee to America Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him redemption ...

A beautiful new limited edition paperback of The Kite Runner published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list The first ...