A lyrical, mysterious tour through Prague mixes history and legend with everyday reality, a child s reflections on the Christian concept of sinfulness lead him to resolve to sin just a little bit, drunken men banter over interminable card games, and a woman s salvation comes in the unexpected form of pickled buttocks.
Bringing together authors of different generations, styles, and backgrounds including, for the first time in English, two stories by Czech Roma this collection expresses women s multiple perspectives on social and intimate issues with by turns caustic and sensitive...

Offering insight into linguistic practices resulting from different kinds of Palestinian-Israeli contact, this book examines a specific conceptualisation of the link between the political and economic contexts and human practices, or between structure and agency, termed "articulation".
The contexts of the military occupation, a shared consumer market, controlled cheap labour migration, and the provision of social services, supply the setting for power relations between Israelis and Palestinians which give rise to a variety of linguistic practices. Among these practices is the borrowing of...