skopia
Solzhenitsyn served eight years in the camps, then gathered hundreds of survivors' accounts into a single prisoner's journey from arrest through interrogation to the labor gangs. Publishing it got him deported.
In London in 1944 the army notices that an American officer's sexual conquests keep predicting where German rockets fall. What follows is the filthiest, funniest chase ever run across a ruined continent.
Culture is not what people do, Geertz argues, but the meanings hung on it, and thick description means reading a Balinese cockfight the way you would read a poem.
Nel stays in her Ohio town and marries. Sula leaves for ten years, returns, and the town settles on her as its evil. Morrison makes their friendship the deepest bond either will know.
Besieged by rebels in 1857 India, British colonials run out of shot and fire the head of a Shakespeare bust from a cannon. Farrell lets their faith in progress starve alongside them.