David Bradley Knihy

The official language of Myanmar, Burmese is spoken by about 30 million people.It is essential to have some knowledge of Burmese if you are spending time in the country.

Essential words and phrases in Burmese, Khmer, Lao, Malay & Indonesian, Pilipino, Thai and Vietnamese.

"The Chaneysville Incident rivals Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon as the best novel about the black experience in America since Ellison's Invisible Man." -- Christian Science Monitor Updated with a new foreword by the author in celebration of its fortieth anniversary, the classic PEN/Faulkner Award-winning novel about a man's obsessive quest to uncover the circumstances of his father's death and his town's murky history. Legend has it something happened in Chaneysville . . . John Washington is coming home to Chaneysville. Old Jack Crawley, his father's closest friend and John's guardian, is dying, and the young man will care for him in his final days. For the brilliant and embittered Black historian, it is a return that will plunge him deep into the past, into the dark secrets of this town and the buried evil of his heritage. Investigating the death of his father, Moses, a moonshiner with a difficult past, John must come to terms with his family's proud and tragic history and the terrible truth of this white rural town close to the Mason Dixon line-- a waystation for slaves traveling along the Underground Railroad--that he once called home. The Chaneysville Incident is the story of John's relationship with his family, his hometown, and the woman he loves--and the indelible bonds between past and present, oppression and bondage, history and myth, faith and guilt, love and acceptance.

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John Washington, Geschichtsprofessor, wird in seine kleine Stadt zurückgezogen, als er erfährt, dass sein Freund und Mentor, der alte Jack Crawley, im Sterben liegt. Jack Crawley war immer ein Geschichtenerzähler. Bevor er stirbt, erzählt er John eine letzte Geschichte und hinterlässt ihm ein seltsames Erbe, das John auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit über seinen Vater führt – einen Mann, der als Hersteller von illegalem Whiskey begann und als der wohlhabendste und einflussreichste schwarze Bürger der Gemeinde endete. Während John seine Familiengeschichte aufdeckt, entdeckt er eine Geschichte voller Intrigen, die bis in die Zeit der Sklaverei zurückreicht. Der Chaneysville-Vorfall überrascht wie ein Thriller und beeindruckt wie ein Epos. Ganz einfach einer der bedeutendsten Romane des Jahrzehnts.