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Featuring the five short-listed stories for the BBC National Short Story Award, this collection brings together a high-caliber group of new and established British authors exploring human relationships at their most dysfunctional and yet sustaining. Splintered families, the persistence of love, the public versus the private, and the plight of the outsider provide recurring themes in this 2010 selection of works. synopsis may belong to another edition of this title.
Review: Every sentence is both unpredictable and exactly what it should be. Reading them is a series of short shocks of (agreeably envious) pleasure.
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Sarah Hall was born in Cumbria in 1974. She received a BA from Aberystwyth University, Wales, and a MLitt in Creative Writing from St Andrews, Scotland . She is the author of Haweswater, which won the 2003 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Novel, a Society of Authors Betty Trask Award, and a Lakeland Book of the Year prize. I
Jhumpa Lahiri at new level of artistic achievement with Whereabouts
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New Delhi, April 27 : Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: with her new novel Whereabouts (Penguin), Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit.
The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant: the sidewalks around her house, parks, bridges, piazzas, streets, stores, coffee bars.
We follow her to the pool she frequents and to the train station that sometimes leads her to her mother, mired in a desperate solitude after her father s untimely death. In addition to colleagues at work, where she never quite feels at ease, she has girl friends, guy friends, and him, a shadow who both consoles and unsettles her. But
Penguin to publish 1st novel by Jhumpa Lahiri in nearly a decade
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New Delhi, Feb 5 : Penguin Random House India announced on Friday the forthcoming publication of Pulitzer Prize-winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author Jhumpa Lahiri s marvellous new novel, her first in nearly a decade. Whereabouts is her first novel written in Italian and translated into English by the author.
With Whereabouts , Jhumpa Lahiri transcends into a new level of artistic achievement. This is a story of a woman protagonist who longs to belong but dares not conform, who is moving through her life in a city that almost becomes her companion. From the sidewalks, parks, and bridges to the pool and the train station that leads her to her grieving mother after her father s untimely death, she moves through the city, one season after another. Until one day, her perspective changes and the life, as she knows it, is trans
Zimbabwean writer Petinah Gappah
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Petina Gappah (born 1971) is a Zimbabwean lawyer and writer. She writes in English, though she also draws on Shona, her first language. In 2016, she was named African Literary Person of the Year by Brittle Paper. In 2017 she had a DAAD Artist-in-Residence fellowship in Berlin.
Early years
Petina Gappah was born in Zambia, in Copperbelt Province. She has said: My father, like many skilled black workers who could not get jobs in segregated Rhodesia, sought his fortune elsewhere. He and my mother moved to Kitwe, a town on the booming Zambian copper belt. She was brought up in Zimbabwe, where her parents returned when she was nine months old. After the country’s