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The Opium Eaters |
Softcover - $12.99
Hardcover - $16.60
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The Opium Eaters is the culminating novel of this trilogy. The first, One Way to Pakistan, is a gripping story of corruption and crime in Pakistan in which three women are abducted and how their lives are shattered. In the second novel, An Oath of Vengeance, Maria, the wife of an American doctor, Chamuck a tribal girl from Peshawar and Ankh struggle with terror and shame in their personal lives, being no more than chattel to their abductors. Braving death they seek their own ways to escape from their tormentors.
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An Oath of Vengeance |
Softcover - $11.60
Hardcover - $16.60
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In his new
novel, An Oath of Vengeance, Harold Bergsma weaves a literary web
which snares genre-junkies, mystery-lovers and hopeless romantics.
Like its prequel One Way “to Pakistan, this novel is rich with
insights to the cultures of Bergsma’s youth in the Punjab of
Pakistan and India. Through the tales of American AID
mission-workers, corrupt Pakistani bureaucrats, captive women
imprisoned behind high walls and rigid religious idealists of
Pakistan, Bergsma delivers an elaborate understanding of the Pathan
code, Zar, Zan, Zamin, the components of honor in this Islamic
culture—a culture which is set to have a profound impact on
Americans in this century. While the first pages crawl through the
eccentricity of a foreign land while revealing Bergsma’s love and
passion for his childhood homeland, the last three quarters of this
novel force the reader into page-turning. This novel’s erratic
plotline and scandalously intriguing characters will leave readers
yearning for book three to hit the shelves. |
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One Way to
Pakistan |
Softcover - $12.80
Hardcover - $17.80
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This is an
award winning story of the abduction of three women; one a young Filipino American, the wife of an American US-AID
contractor, the
other a Hindu girl living in Lahore and the
third an infidel Kaffir
Kalash from tribal areas in the hills
bordering China and Afghanistan. All
three suffer the
hopelessness, the helpless indignity of becoming
concubines, of
the very one who should have protected them, the Senior
Superintendent of Police, Lahore.
This is a story of
abduction, rape, murder and extortion which takes
place in
Pakistan during a time when anti-American sentiments ran high,
when fundamentalist religious zeal overrode rational humanistic
concerns. Those who attempted to bring aid and assistance ended
up in having their families torn, becoming involved in cultural
clashes and
international brutality which changed their lives.
Yet it is a story of personal
tenderness, love and longing among
the very ones who were enslaved. |
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Rhododendron Wine Factory:
Memoirs of a
Wanderer |
Paperback - $12.10
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Tipsy as an eight year old boarding student making
Rhododendron wine in India, high as teenager trekking the slopes of
Annapurna in Nepal, sleepless in Sana’a Yemen Arab Republic with
Russian spies in the next room, sun baked on a boat with a dead
motor in the Caribbean Sea in Belize, burning legs in a trail of
army ants in Nigeria, gassing up with palm wine in Cameroon,
claustrophobic in a tomb under a pyramid in Egypt, and hanging
weightless with barracuda by a coral reef in Solomon Islands; the
author spins tales of his life as a mystic, international, rootless
wanderer.
Philosophical and serious, lonely and sad, romantic and
sexy, funny and snide, the author invites you into his world to
share his memoirs of crazy and unexpected situations in remote
corners of the world.
- See a Jesus Christ Lizard walk on
water in Costa Rica in The Strangler Fig
- Get lost in a suffocating cave in
India in Bears’ Cave
- Tail-drag your plane in Flight
Training in the USA
- Hunt a giant python in The Diamond
Snake in Nigeria
- Tie down the sun in Machu
Picchu, Peru
- Steam up in a Swaziland train tunnel
in Rusty Tracks
- Get service in bed in Little
Tea in Pakistan
- Hear Cameroon talking drums in Tigon Nights
- Kill vermin in Sewer Rats in
Michigan
His memoirs speak of the birth and
rebirth of ideas and beliefs over a lifetime; We are born in
mystery, we live in mystery and we die in
mystery.
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Lalla and Lavina, Stories
about Indian Women |
Paperback - $14.50
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Lalla and Lavina, Stories
about Indian Women, portrays the lives of two women, one in ancient
India and the other in modern India during the 1950's. Lalla,
stunningly beautiful, from a poor outcast farming family is seen by
the Emperor Akbar as he is riding on a hunt. She is taken by force
as a slave and concubine. Lavina, a modern medical student meets
David, an American youth and their lives become entangled
romantically. Lavina returns home to her father, an outcast
Christian convert. Here she narrated campfire stories of the
mythical Lalla and the doomed Anarkali to her small siblings and
nieces. In doing son, brings the mythical Lalla alive in her own
tumultuous life. |
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Tales Tiv
Tell |
Please contact publisher or search for a used copy
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| This is a collection of tales from the Tiv people of Benue
Plateau State. The aims of the book are to encourage interest in a
traditional cultural of Nigeria as revealed by their 'oral
literature' and to provide stimulating reading practice for
secondary schools.
Nigeria : The Booksellers Ltd.
Kolade
Mosuro (OUP Agent)
52 Magazine Road,P.O. Box 30201
Ibadan
Nigeria
Tel: +234 2 241
3375
Fax: +234 2 241 3374 |
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