Eva lis wuorio biography of martin

The book is set in Nazi-occupied Denmark, where a young Norwegian and his Danish cousins attempt to evacuate the Danish Jews before the Germans can send them to concentration camps. This short story collection, marketed for children, has a deftness to the writing and a cosmopolitan feel overall. There is little questioning of the supernatural, or shock at the experience of it: it merely is.

All are somewhat unconventional, and even when using familiar tropes like werewolfery Wuorio creates a story that is moody and introspective, with a distinct sense of place and setting. The results are uniquely her own, and may perhaps be more appreciated by adults tired of the commonplace who are looking for something different. Posted by Douglas A.

ISBN External links [ edit ]. Authority control databases. Categories : births Canadian writers of young adult literature Finnish emigrants to Canada deaths Finnish children's writers Finnish women children's writers Finnish expatriates in England Canadian women children's writers 20th-century Canadian women writers Canadian emigrants to England Canadian expatriates in England.

Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Webarchive template wayback links. The Knight Has Died. The author, Cees Nooteboom, is one of the great names in Dutch letters, but this is definitely not his Don Quixote. Not recommended, unless you absolutely have to read everything ever published about Ibiza.

They Are Ruining Ibiza Again, it features a porn starlet, but I won't say more in case you're tempted to buy it. Funny in parts.

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Yoni a spiral-bound book, date ca. This is definitely one for bibliomaniacs of the hippie generation. The author, Bruce C. Stratton, has also written The Last Boat to Barcelona also spiral bound which contains the memorable sentence: "I heard one woman remark that she had been judged legally insane in New York but since coming to Ibiza five years ago she hadn't had any problems.

Includes excellent recipes for boiled and roasted hedgehog.

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Is Harry on the Boat? Clue: it's the same colour as the isla blanca. At the end of the first article we took a look at The Island of Fish in the Treesa children's book in which two girls dressed in party frocks wander around Formentera in search of a GP to mend a broken doll. The author, Eva-Lis Wuorio, moved in her childhood to Toronto from Viipuri, an ancient walled city in Finland, hence her unusual surname and perfect command of English.

I like enjoying my fortune. The family got to hear about this and there were in-fights, out-fights, and general quarreling while they tried to find out to whom Uncle Basil had decided to leave his money. To put them out of their miser, he said, he'd tell them the truth. He didn't like scattering money about. He liked it in a lump sum.

Quit bothering him aboutit. That happened a good decade before the morning his housekeeper, taking him his tea, found him peacefully asleep forever. It had been a good decade for him. The family hadn't dared to worry him, and his investments had risen steadily. It was true too.

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They had been attentive, the way families tend to be to rich and stubborn elderly relatives. They didn't know he'd heard all they'd said out of his hearing, as well as the flattering drivel they'd spread like soft butter on hot toast in his hearing. Everyone, recalling his own efforts to be thoroughly nice, was certain that he and only he would be the heir to the Lump Sum.

They rushed to consult the lawyer. He said that he had been instructed by Uncle Basil in sane and precise terms. The cremation was to take place immediately after the death, and they would find the coffin ready in the garden shed.

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Verner would know where it was. Everything of the best. Goose and turkey, venison and beef, oysters and lobsters, and wines of good vintage plus plenty of whiskey. He liked to think of a good send-off, curmudgeon though he was, he'd said. But they were relieved to hear that the lawyer also had an envelope, the contents of which he did not know, to read to them at the feast after the cremation.

They all bought expensive black clothes, since black was the color of that season anyway, and whoever inherited would share the wealth. That was only fair. Only Verner said that couldn't they buy Uncle Basil a nicer coffin? The one in the garden shed was pretty ratty, since the roof leaked. But the family hardly listened to him. After all, it would only be burned, so what did it matter?

So, duly and with proper sorrow, Uncle Basil was cremated.