Native Tongue (hiaasen 1991)

Bestselling novelist Carl Hiaasen is back with another hysterical mystery adventure for young readers, set in the Florida Keys. Noah's dad has a little problem with anger control. He tried to stop the Coral Queen casino boat's illegal dumping . . . by sinking the boat. But his bold protest fizzles: within days the casino is back in business, and Noah's dad is behind bars and out of action. Now Noah is determined to succeed where his father failed.

From Carl Hiaasen and the distinguished foreign correspondent Bill Montalbano comes a relentless novel of treachery and murder set in the clenched society of China, where even tomorrow’s weather is a state secret. David Wang, a Chinese-American art historian, dies shortly after a visit to an ancient tomb housing priceless artifacts. Officials diagnose death by duck, a fatal confluence of culture shock and rich cuisine. But Wang’s friend Tom Stratton suspects something more sinister, especially after the dead man’s brother, a highly placed Party official, tries to have him kidnapped.

This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as émigré literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of ‘mother-tongue” as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the dichotomy of native language/foreign language. It transcends these limitations by examining modern Japanese literature and literary criticism through modern philology, the vernacularization movement, and Korean-Japanese literature.

This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as émigré literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of ‘mother-tongue” as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the dichotomy of native language/foreign language. It transcends these limitations by examining modern Japanese literature and literary criticism through modern philology, the vernacularization movement, and Korean-Japanese literature.

This book examines how early research on literary activities outside national literatures such as émigré literature or diasporic literature conceived of the loss of ‘mother-tongue” as a tragedy, and how it perpetuated the ideology of national language by relying on the dichotomy of native language/foreign language. It transcends these limitations by examining modern Japanese literature and literary criticism through modern philology, the vernacularization movement, and Korean-Japanese literature.

Wundervolles türkisblaues Wasser in den Florida Keyes - oder weiterhin eine stinkende Kloake? Noah und seine Schwester schrecken vor nichts zurück, um skrupellosen Verbrechern auf die Spur zu kommen und ihnen mit viel Phantasie und Mut das Handwerk zu legen.Wieder einmal sitzt Noahs Vater im Knast, diesmal weil er Dusty Mulemans Kasinoschiff kurzerhand versenkt hat…

Die Kreuzfahrt endet für die schöne Joey abrupt, als sie von ihrem Mann Chaz über Bord geworfen wird. Chaz glaubt, dass seine Frau etwas über seine krummen Deals mit dem skrupellosen Tycoon Red Hammernut weiß. Dummerweise hält sich Joey gekonnt über Wasser, bis sie von Mick Stranahan gerettet wird. Zusammen mit dem smarten Expolizisten startet Joey nun eine Racheaktion, die Chaz arg in Bedrängnis bringt …

Bei einer Führung durch die Everglades fällt der stark alkoholisierte Wilson tot um. Kurzentschlossen verklappt Tour-Guide Sammy den Toten in einem entlegenen Wasserarm und setzt sich in die Sümpfe ab. Dort trifft er schließlich auf ein Sammelsurium von Personen, die aus den unterschiedlichsten Gründen ebenfalls in den Everglades gelandet sind. Chaos, Liebeshändel und Rachefeldzüge nehmen ihren Lauf.

What is your mother tongue? Sometimes the simplest questions take a book to answer. Such is the case with Tania Romanov’s story.