James King - 2 Novels AWZ3 and EPUB

Authors: James King
Formats: AZW3, EPUB
Ids: 9781770860278
Tags: Canadian, Fiction, Literary

Etiénne Morneau is an unassuming young man of few friends and even fewer words. A recluse, the only way he can make sense of the world around him is to compile lists and stick to a routine. Details of ordinary life that we accept as a matter of course, he often finds difficult to grasp. As a result, he believes he does not know or feel enough to express anything worth expressing. Yet in spite of Etienne’s unique perspective, or perhaps because of it, he is secretly a creative genius. His art — an attempt to capture in images what his mind cannot define in words - is infused with a strange beauty; and his journals - organized in the form of a dictionary — reveal an innocent soul yearning to take part in life and all its small glories. Featuring elegant writing and an unforgettable narrator, Etiénne’s Alphabet is proof that all it takes to make the world remarkable and new is a “different” set of eyes.



Authors: James King
Formats: AZW3, EPUB
Ids: 1896951945
Tags: Canadian, Fiction, Literary

Set in nineteenth-century Tokyo and twentieth-century Boston, Pure Inventions tells of the incredible adventures of Hiroshi — prankster, forger, authenticator, and artist. The son of a Japanese courtesan and an American naval officer, Hiroshi never feels at home in his native Japan. Torn by his mixed heritage, he is constantly compelled to reinvent himself, sometimes with disastrous consequences. In its vividly detailed recreation of the adventures of its enterprising, tortured hero, Pure Inventions is a story of various kinds of estrangement: from parents; from one's native land; even from one's best self-interests.