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Married to a Syrian, Vanessa, an American, is caught in the middle of a different culture and lifestyle. Living with an abusive husband and raising her children in his shadow is a struggle for survival. Her determination to succeed and to adapt to the dysfunctional family that she married into is a story of sacrifice, integrity, and perseverance. Leaving the country with her children is an impossibility, and then the Civil War transforms her life into a nightmare--a nightmare that might become the key to her escape.

Married to a Syrian, Vanessa, an American, is caught in the middle of a different culture and lifestyle. Living with an abusive husband and raising her children in his shadow is a struggle for survival. Her determination to succeed and to adapt to the dysfunctional family that she married into is a story of sacrifice, integrity, and perseverance. Leaving the country with her children is an impossibility, and then the Civil War transforms her life into a nightmare--a nightmare that might become the key to her escape.

Four Caribbean Women Playwrights aims to expand Caribbean and postcolonial studies beyond fiction and poetry by bringing to the fore innovative women playwrights from the French Caribbean: Ina Césaire, Maryse Condé, Gerty Dambury, Suzanne Dracius. Focussing on the significance of these women writers to the French and French Caribbean cultural scenes, the author illustrates how their work participates in global trends within postcolonial theatre. The playwrights discussed here all address socio-political issues, gender stereotypes, and the traumatic slave and colonial pasts of the...

Von ihren Vorfahren hat Nhika die Fähigkeit geerbt, Körper mit nur einer Berührung zu manipulieren - magische Heilkräfte, zumindest im Glauben ihres Heimatlandes. Doch Nhikas Volk wurde ausgerottet, und im technokratischen Stadtstaat Theumas sind Menschen wie sie als brutale Mörder verschrien und gefürchtet. Als Nhika im Geheimen versucht, einer kranken Frau zu helfen, wird sie erwischt und an die Meistbietenden versteigert: die Aristokratenfamilie Congmi, deren Oberhaupt kürzlich ermordet wurde. Ein mächtiger Mann ist tot, und der einzige Zeuge liegt im Koma - plötzlich sind...