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White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga |
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Balram, the White Tiger, was
born in a village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works
in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape.
When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his
opportunity, and is soon on his way to Delhi behind the wheel of a
Honda. |
The 2008 Man
Booker winner.
.,. this page-turner offers a completely
bald, angry, unadorned portrait of the county as seen from the bottom of the
heap ... |
Something I'm Not
by Lucy Beresford |
| To her friends,
Amber leads the perfect life with her successful marriage, powerful job as a
headhunter and her immaculate style. But as more of her friends fall pregnant,
and her best friend Dylan announces his decision to adopt a baby with his gay
lover, Amber's world begins to fall apart. |
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| ... Addresses the mother-daughter relationship - with a heartbreaking
tenderness and clarity ... |
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His
Illegal Self
by Peter Carey |
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Raised in isolated
privilege by his New York grandmother, Che, the precocious son of 60s radicals,
just wants to see his parents. But first he must become an outlaw himself,
fleeing to a hippy commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland, where he is
forced to slowly, bravely, confront his life. |
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an achingly beautiful and emotional story of the love between a young woman and
a little boy, and a wonderful journey of self-discovery ... |
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An
Atlas Of Impossible Longing
by
Anuradha Roy |
| Beginning in
1907 with the founding of a factory in a small provincial town, the story is of
3 generations of an Indian family, in which a sensitive and intelligent
foundling boy orphan who is casteless and without religion and Bakul, the
motherless granddaughter of the house, grow up together. |
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| ... this is a love story - as passionate as it is poignant - about
two people who find each other when abandoned by everyone else
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