This investigation indicates that the Lekwungen value both the historical ecological conditions of the island and particular types of the present-day novel or hybrid ecological states, such as the overgrown heritage orchard and nonnative berries found on the islands.
The Lekwungen value both the historical ecological conditions of the Tl'chés islands and present-day novel or hybrid ecological communities; for example, they appreciate the heritage apple and plum trees, and exotic blackberry bushes planted by ancestors or introduced by others.
Set in the present day, Chirovici's novel is a story about the murder of a charismatic professor at Princeton University in the late 1980s.
In his state of delirium, the real and make-believe merge, so that figures from his childhood – and from the present day – appear in the novel (reinforced by the fact that many of the actors have multiple parts).
Set in Egypt in the 1920s and London in the present day, this hugely readable novel tells the story of Carter's long years of toil in the Valley of the Kings through the eyes of a 10-year-old English girl recovering from a bout of typhoid to which she has lost her mother.
The first chapter, set in the novel's present day of 1980, proceeds with wilful leisure, alighting here and there on arbitrary detail.
It's tough to update Jane Austen's novels for the present day.
He founded the family timber business, which, in the novel, exists to our present day.
So that a novel set in the present day can't ever be exactly that; it's always yesterday, or the day before yesterday.
Perhaps Baz Luhrmann persuaded Olivia de Havilland or Joan Fontaine to make a return in an epilogue that would bring the novel briefly into the present day.
It's a novel told in the present day that looks back to people's youth.
