Lara
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Lara
Author: Bernardine Evaristo
language: en
Publisher: Angela Royal Publishing
Release Date: 1997
"Lara traces the two ancestral strands of a girl called Lara who grows up in London in the sixties and seventies. Her father, Taiwo, is Nigerian and her mother, Ellen, is English and it goes into both sides of her family history. On Taiwo's side it follows his grandfather's journey from slavery in Brazil in the eighteenth century, to freedom in the Brazilian Quarter of Lagos, Nigeria. It follows Taiwo's childhood in Lagos when Nigeria was a British colony, his journey to Britain to study in 1949 and his eventual meeting and marriage, to a white Englishwoman called Ellen. The book also traces Ellen's childhood in London during the war years, and her mother Edith's poor working class childhood in London at the turn of the century. Finally, all strands come together in Lara who begins her own odyssey as she grows up a mixed-race child in an exclusively white area of London." -- Provided by publisher.
Lara's Journey
Lara's Journey is a memoir written by a person who has struggled with keloid scars for many years. The book chronicles the author's experiences with keloid scars, from the initial diagnosis to the various treatments and surgeries that were attempted to alleviate the condition. The author shares their emotional journey, including the frustration, pain, and embarrassment that came with having keloid scars. They also discuss the impact that the scars had on their personal and professional life, as well as their relationships with others. Throughout the book, the author provides valuable information about keloid scars, including the causes, symptoms, and treatment options. They also share their personal tips and tricks for managing the condition, such as using silicone sheets and avoiding certain activities that can aggravate the scars. Overall, "My Journey with Keloid Scars" is a powerful and inspiring story of one person's struggle with a difficult condition. It offers hope and encouragement to others who may be dealing with keloid scars, and provides valuable insights into the physical and emotional toll that the condition can take.
All Lara's Wars
Author: Wojciech Jagielski
language: en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date: 2020-11-17
The true story of one woman's struggle to save her sons from radicalization by Chechen partisans, as told by a seasoned war reporter. In All Lara's Wars, the great events of the last half-century--the realignment of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union, and the rise in the Middle East of ISIS and its quest for a new Caliphate--converge in this account of a Chechen-Georgian family whose two sons become radicalized, and how their mother--Lara--travels to Syria by bus and at great risk, not to join them but to bring them home. By then, the older son is a high level commander and the younger son a respected soldier in ISIS's army. The story is told with a sense of wonder at the contemporary world and all the ways it resembles a primitive and violent land where all struggles are to the death, and there is an epic battle going on between forces of good and evil that cannot be understood other than as mythic and larger than life. Lara is a Kist--one of a tiny ethnicity that crossed the Caucasus mountains a century ago to settle in the remote Pankisi Gorge in northern Georgia, a peaceful and isolated paradise. She married a Chechen, moved to Grozny, and became the mother of two sons. When war came to Chechnya, she took her children home to the safe Georgian valley, and later sent them to Western Europe to live with their father--to protect them from the influence of the radical Islamic freedom fighters who had come to the Pankisi Gorge as refugees from the Chechnyan wars. As in all of Wojciech Jagielski's books, he tells here the story of any modern war, how the individual lives of civilians and combatants are obliterated in the sweep of the larger narrative--and how the humanity of these individual lives is revealed, and the price paid in human endurance and persistence and loss. Jagielski observes, listening to Lara and letting her story emerge through the filter of his literary skill. This unusual reportage tells us the facts of the Chechnyan wars and the reality of the Syrian war from the viewpoint of ISIS recruits, but it is also the true account of one ordinary family that became part of the larger tragedy that has claimed so many victims in recent years.