This lyrical tale of grief and gruelling love on a tobacco farm takes place in the mid-nineteen-eighties but, if not for glimpses of linoleum and double-wides, might recall an earlier time.
Weaving in familiar songs from far-flung corners of the earth into a tale of grief and healing, it has both the simplicity and the dark undertow of a fairy tale.
The story of what happened late Thursday and early today in this tiny hamlet is a tale of grief for the clan of Shiite Muslims who today were erecting funeral tents for the wake that will occur here this weekend.
For how long must we hear their tales of grief and devastation before the ambulances are allowed to enter?
Kabul was full of orphans like Nasir, woebegone children who peddled little labors and fantastic tales of grief.
In New York City, misery has always been the fast track to media success, but be forewarned: Only 10 tales of grief will be chosen at random to be told onstage.
The Chemistry of Tears is a nineteenth century tale of love, grief, and a strange automated swan that conceals a terrible secret.
Critically buried at Sundance last year, this tale of two grief-stricken mothers avenging the deaths of their children is nonetheless a fascinatingly discordant melange of ripe B-movie camembert and genuinely steaming social protest, gutsily carried by its two leads.
It attracted all kinds of star performers to tell the tale of a grief-stricken fire chief who asks for help in preparing eulogies for eight of his men who died in the attacks.
While even her best work hinges on a measure of artifice, not one narrative beat or expression of feeling feels genuine in this foam-headed tale of a grief-stricken Danish cop (Game of Thrones' Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) kidnapping a junkie couple's baby.
Cherokee America vividly, and often with humor, explores the bonds--of blood and place, of buried histories and half-told tales, of past grief and present injury--that connect a colorful, eclectic cast of characters, anchored by the clever, determined, and unforgettable Check .-- Provided by publisher.
