Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Cultural Heritage

Slavonic Dances is a sequence of three linked novellas which explore the comic and tragic implications of encounters by Scottish characters with matters of eastern and east-central Europe. 'Mrs Makarowski', the first story, tells of a good-natured working-class Fife woman who marries a Polish soldier stationed in her area during the war, and her bemusement - amounting at times to anxiety - as she learns of the dark realities of his background. 'The Kilt' takes its cue from the discovery of two strange photographs; the central character is Angus Cooper, a young...

Nivi Delisle, a psychoanalyst and magazine editor, nearly drowns while swimming off the Ile de Re; the astrophysicist Theo Passemant fishes her...

‘The Americas were generous enough to preserve the literatures and ruins of the Incas, the Mayans, the Aztecs and the Native Americans in a number of museums. But the self-proclaimed liberal and tolerant Indian culture had spared not even that much space for the Asurs. They existed only as vestiges of myths.’

After a long period of unemployment, Master Sahib is appointed to a school for tribal girls in rural Jharkhand—on a remote plateau, near open bauxite mines. He has heard of the Asur tribe who live there—that they are primitive, crude...

Artist Sophie Smith "listens" to fossils to seek inspiration, but her latest subjects, a pair of ape-like human ancestors, millions of years old, could give her something else as well. Never has she needed a clear perspective on human descent so much, for now she is unexpectedly pregnant.

As Sophie struggles to make art and make a decision, her speculations frame and introduce the real stories of seventy-five years in a proto-human community, the "foot-ape" Tribe of the River Confluence. There is the community founder who must make a terrible choice to reclaim her power and dignity....

The House of Santos is a family saga, filled with characters who people the US western landscape in the Arizona territory from 1822–1898. The House of Santos grows from three families who join together to create a heritage from their strengths, love, and ambitions. They have a passion for life, for moving forward, and for growing as they change. If they fulfill their dreams, it is because of their human endurance, love, understanding, and stubborn striving for success and stability.

The Leaper

Seumas Macdonald is an outsider, not only because he lives on an isolated primitive croft, but also because, being the only child in the school to speak Gaelic (apart from his disturbed sister), he is the favourite of MacCallum the headmaster, which leads to the boy being bullied in the playground. MacCallum comes in his boat for ceilidhs with the Macdonald family, to preserve the evocative Gaelic names of birds and flowers, and to teach Seumas to read and write what the headmaster calls 'the language of Eden' which, like the natural world, is under threat. The...