![]() ![]() ![]() ''Not everybody has a telephone,'' she explains. Sen misses in America is the close sense of community she knew in India. Sen has brought me,'' she complains, ''I cannot sometimes sleep in so much silence.'' ![]() Another faculty wife, who has taken a baby-sitting job to fill her empty afternoons, tells her young charge that everything she cares about remains in India in the home she left behind. One couple living near a small New England campus ''used to trail their fingers, at the start of each new semester, through the columns of the university directory, circling surnames familiar to their part of the world'' in search of new friends. Lahiri's people are Indian immigrants trying to adjust to a new life in the United States, and their cultural displacement is a kind of index of a more existential sense of dislocation. Lahiri's prose is so eloquent and assured that the reader easily forgets that ''Interpreter of Maladies'' is a young writer's first book. In this accomplished collection of stories, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the lives of people on two continents - North America and India - and in doing so announces herself as a wonderfully distinctive new voice. ![]()
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![]() Ramachandra Guha's book is an extraordinary work of non-fiction. The third book is a definitive biography of Gandhi - Gandhi is regarded as one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century and Guha is the perfect biographer. It will be very international and hugely enlightening. The second book is a fascinating anthology of what people have said about Gandhi - from politicians, writers, artists. The first will be an Indian history of a British sport - cricket which will be written in his usual animated and highly informed way. ![]() Here he is offering three books to Picador. ![]() Ramachandra Guha is one of the world's foremost historians and writers on cricket. ![]() ![]() ![]()
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He just has to make sure a train's schedule meets the required sailing schedule which meets the required coach schedule and so on. When Jules Verne wrote the story "Around the World in Eighty Days" in 1872, he predicted that one day man could accomplish the task in eighty hours, but which most considered folly to do in eighty days in current times, that is except for people like Englishman Phileas Fogg, a regimented man who believed all it would take is exacting work, the skills he possesses. When this movie is made in 1956, one could circumnavigate the globe in a little less than two days. ![]() ![]() ![]() To save her family and maybe the world, she'll have to trust Zayne. Zayne has secrets of his own-but working together becomes imperative once demons breach the compound and Trinity's secret comes to light. 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As both a witty satire of Victorian society and a means by which to explore the fourth dimension, Flatland remains a tour de force. Abbott published a brilliant novel about mathematics and philosophy that charmed and fascinated all of England. ![]() |