Result for "Identitti" in Literature & Fiction

Was für ein Skandal: Prof. Dr. Saraswati ist weiß! Schlimmer geht es nicht. Denn die Professorin für Postcolonial Studies in Düsseldorf war eben noch die Übergöttin aller Debatten über Identität - und beschrieb sich als Person of Colour. Während das Netz gegen Saraswati hetzt und Demos ihre Entlassung fordern, stellt die enttäuschte Studentin Nivedita ihr intimste Fragen. Mithu Sanyal erzählt mit beglückender Selbstironie und befreiendem Wissen von Identitätsfragen und Zugehörigkeit.

Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known blogger and doctoral student, is in awe of her supervisor—postcolonial and race studies professor Saraswati. But her life and sense of self are turned upside down when it emerges that Saraswati is actually white. Nivedita’s praise of Saraswati during a radio interview just hours before the news breaks calls into question her own reputation as a young activist. Following the uproar, Nivedita is forced to reflect on the key moments in her life, when she doubted her identity and her place in the world. 

This all-new Star Trek novel celebrates the 60th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series—continuing the legacy of Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise. 2269: The prospect of peace had seemed unattainable until the assistance of the Federation. Finally, countless...

Alex Toles and Claire Brackett are back in action. Once rivals, the pair of FBI agents receive a summons from President Candace Reid to the White House. Evidence of forced starvation scattered throughout Russia coincides with a growing military presence in the small Russian exclave of Kaliningrad. Concerned about potential Russian aggression in the Baltic States and confronting subversion within her cabinet, Candace turns to Alex and Claire to put the pieces of a growing puzzle together.

'The Queen of the Summer Novel' (People) The ultimate summertime reading for fans of Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult. Nantucket is only two and a half hours away from Martha's Vineyard by ferry. But the two islands might as well be worlds apart for a set of identical twin sisters who have been...