Frances Itani Libros

Born on the shores of Lake Ontario, Grania O'Neill suffers a childhood illness that destroys her hearing. Grania's life without sound is also a life bounded by a powerful family love that tries to protect her from suffering. But when it becomes clear that Grania can no longer thrive among the hearing, her family sends her to the Ontario School for the Deaf. There, protected from the often unforgiving world outside, she learns sign language and speech. And there she meets Jim Lloyd, a hearing man, and the two, in wonderment, begin to create a new emotional vocabulary that encompasses both sound and silence. But a war is raging on the other side of the world. Only two weeks after their wedding, Jim must leave home to serve as a stretcher-bearer on the blood-soaked battlefields of Flanders. During this long and brutal war of attrition, Jim and Grania are pulled to the centre of cataclysmic events that will alter civilisation forever.

'The book is meant to spread joy, personal acceptance, and most of all understanding. Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will be.' Growing up gay in a traditional South Asian family in South Yorkshire, Tan France could never have imagined he'd become part of a worldwide phenomenon. One of the few people of colour at his school, he experienced racist bullies, found solace at his grandad's denim factory and eventually discovered his true calling at fashion college. Told with his trademark humour, for the first time Tan reveals the experiences that have made him the witty, compassionate man he is today. From meeting the love of his life Rob (a Mormon cowboy from Salt Lake City) to juggling three demanding businesses, Tan charts the highs and lows on his path to Queer Eye. And of course he can't help but pepper this book with fashion dos and don'ts. Full of candid observations about US and UK cultural differences, celebrity encounters, and behind-the-scenes revelations about Queer Eye, Naturally Tan gives us Tan's unique perspective on the happiness to be found in being yourself.

Männer in Uniform gehen von Haus zu Haus, hämmern an Türen, erteilen den Befehl zusammenzupacken. Fischerboote werden konfisziert, Menschen aus ihren Häusern getrieben. Auch Bins Familie, seine Geschwister Hiroshi und Keiko, seine Eltern, werden eines frühen Morgens, zu Beginn des Jahres 1942, abgeholt und weit fortgebracht, fort von ihrem Haus auf Vancouver Island, fort von dem Leben, das ihres war. Frances Itani widmet sich einem bislang wenig bekannten Kapitel kanadischer Geschichte: der Internierung aller Bürger japanischer Abstammung nach dem Angriff auf Pearl Harbor. Tausenden wurden Heim und Lebensgrundlage genommen, sie wurden in entlegene Teile des Landes verfrachtet und ihrer Freiheit beraubt. Fünfzig Jahre später macht sich Bin Okuma auf, das Land zu durchqueren und zum Lager am Fraser River zurückzukehren, dorthin, wo sein Vater einst, nach Jahren der Entbehrung und Not, eine Entscheidung traf, die sein Leben für immer veränderte. Ein Roman über eine Familie, die in die Fährnisse der Geschichte geriet, ein Roman von großer elegischer Kraft.

Grania O'Neill è rimasta sorda all'età di cinque anni, ma tutt'alto che incapace di comunicare. A cominciare dai lunghi pomeriggi passati sulle ginocchia della nonna, sfiorandole le labbra con le dita per afferrare le parole della sua infanzia. Fino infanzia. Fino all'ingresso, a nove anni, nella scuola per sordi dell'Ontario, per imparare il linguaggio dei gesti e combattere il perenne senso di diversità che l'affligge. Ed è a scuola che anni più tardi Grania incontra Jim Lloyd, giovane, brillante, dotato di udito perfetto. L'amore e lo struggente bisogno di crearsi un proprio intimo canale di comunicazione stabiliscono tra di loro un legame indissolubile, un dialogo continuo che solo lo scoppio della prima guerra mondiale interromperà.