tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70019833614232362682024-02-18T20:20:59.026-08:00Duende BooksDuende Books is an independent Los Angeles-based publishing house dedicated to publishing exceptional work
written by authors from all over the world.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7001983361423236268.post-39695103354373675652009-05-15T15:30:00.000-07:002009-05-26T06:24:03.109-07:00The Eye, The Heart, The Word (Susan Moon & Her Students at Manzanita Village)CREATIVE WRITING"This booklet was born at Manzanita Village, a retreat center in wild country in Southern California. The old ranch stead, set in rugged dry hills, looks like the set of a Western movie, with the added bonus of an adobe meditation hall. [...] All of these pieces are engaging in themselves, and they also illustrate the way I teach, using prompts and suggestions that I have found toUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7001983361423236268.post-866622569601146472009-03-15T17:34:00.000-07:002011-04-28T12:18:52.277-07:00Maria DraculaJuvenile FictionIn this coming-of-age fairy tale, a witch apprentice from Salem discovers that she is the great-granddaughter of Dracula from Transylvania – Maria Dracula - and, with his help, she battles a cruel regime and frees his fantastic country, Rondelia."Maria Dracula is truly an imaginative story. It has - just about - every magical exercise devised. Well-written, the narrative speeds Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7001983361423236268.post-62900594399892870972008-06-07T07:34:00.000-07:002008-06-07T07:40:00.392-07:00DISTANT ECHOES by Giancarlo CovellaIn Giancarlo Covella's poems love and life are the themes par excellence. The seasons change, but things are always the same. Love appears and disappears. Pain always stands. Distant echoes come and go. Silence reigns over everything. Sources of worry are constant. Consistency gets lost. All hopes end.Giancarlo studies at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”.(Available through orders Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7001983361423236268.post-44909263744782945322007-05-06T17:01:00.000-07:002009-03-20T11:31:33.274-07:00VOYAGE TO THE MOON by Alice RoseTHEATER In this one-act play the author pays tribute to the great French-Romanian absurdist playwright Eugene Ionesco.This is the fictional story of an idiosyncratic Jewish family, made of three seniors and one ten-year-old grand-daughter, who, during the terrible flood of 1976 try to escape totalitarian Romania. Chased by the regime’s cops and fighting the marks of their repressed memories from Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7001983361423236268.post-39952433898803109432007-05-06T16:35:00.000-07:002009-04-27T16:32:59.214-07:00THE VIOLINIST by Calmo Rose MEMOIR/HISTORYTHE VIOLINIST counterpoises the universe of childhood on a background of the Jewish Holocaust in Romania. It tells the story of Calmo (Lică), whose family is banned from Bucharest due to their Jewishness, as he bears witness to a world that has lost its humanity during the Second World War. In it he falls in love with a pianist, a Jewish girl named Luţa; he also recounts how his Unknownnoreply@blogger.com