Ghosh offered readers an opportunity to explore his perspective as he gave a detailed presentation about the characters, settings and inspiration behind his work. Set in the early 20th century, the story tackles relations between Burma and India during British colonial rule, as well as the impact colonialism has on countries, families and individuals. The book, which has also been translated into Bahasa Indonesia, narrates the rags-to-riches and coming-of-age story of a Burmese man named Rajkumar Raha. Author Amitav Ghosh invited readers to dig deeper into his award-winning historical classic "The Glass Palace" during a book-reading session organized by the Indian Embassy and the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture in Jakarta on Monday (31/10).
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All the while, a fourteen-year-old boy grows increasingly alienated from this hockey-obsessed community and is determined to take revenge on the people he holds responsible for his beloved sister's death. Simmering tensions between the two towns turn into acts of intimidation and then violence. Maya's parents, Peter and Kira, are caught up in an investigation of the hockey club's murky finances, and Amat-once the star of the Beartown team-has lost his way after an injury and a failed attempt to get drafted into the NHL. The destruction caused by a ferocious late-summer storm reignites the old rivalry between Beartown and the neighboring town of Hed, a rivalry which has always been fought through their ice hockey teams. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place that prevents it. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. There is a sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. They can see how much Beartown has changed. Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. One person's life is being celebrated by all of Beartown. It starts with a storm, a death, and two funerals on the same day. But the numbers tell only part of the story because none of them came easily. Some of those records were ones even Lloyd didn’t know she owned. And she’s also the only person, of either gender, to score a hat trick in a regulation-length World Cup final, getting three goals in the first 16 minutes of the 2015 final with Japan. She’s the only player to score the winning goal in three Olympic medal matches, twice clinching gold. Her club career, which spanned 12 years with six teams on two continents, included another 46 goals in 131 games. are the fourth-most in international soccer history. She also participated in a record 47 world championship matches - 25 in the World Cup and 22 in the Olympics - and her 134 goals for the U.S. Lloyd played in 316 games in three different decades for the U.S., the second-most international appearances of all-time. Wherever she lands figures to be a step down from a playing career that produced a long list of unparalleled accomplishments. 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Ok, first off this book is about a husband and wife who decide that murdering women is somehow a turn on and keeps their marriage fun and sexy. Spoiler time! Seriously, this is going to be long! Some people really enjoyed this book so consider that before deciding to spoil this book's entire plot by reading my ridiculously (and uncharacteristically) long spoiler below: I have a lot of things to say about this book, none of them good, pretty much all of it is a spoiler. The author did a good job in delivering a finely turned and lighthearted whodunit that was very enjoyable. This is a good read that boasts a wonderful cast of character, good dialogue and a solid mystery that had me quickly turning the pages. Did a scorned lover or cheated creditor put Martin down for good? It’s time for Sunny and Shadow to team up again, sniff out a killer, and clear Jane’s name before someone decides to put them to sleep, too. 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Too aggressive for humans, too gay for wolves, and needing to protect the pack from human discovery, Lindsey tries to content himself with life as a successful businessman. Socialite Lindsey Vanessen wants someone to love who will love him back-an impossibility for a gay, half-human, half-werewolf. Title: Wolf In Gucci Loafters by Tara Lain Passionate about diversity, justice, and new experiences, Tara says on her tombstone it will say “Yes”! She lives with her soul-mate husband and her soul-mate dog in Laguna Beach, California, a pretty seaside town where she sets a lot of her books. She often does workshops on both author promotion and writing craft. In her other job, Tara owns an advertising and public relations firm. Her best-selling novels have garnered awards for Best Series, Best Contemporary Romance, Best Ménage, Best LGBT Romance, Best Gay Characters, and Tara has been named Best Writer of the Year in the LRC Awards. 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Tom cleverly persuades several neighborhood children to trade him small trinkets and treasures for the "privilege" of doing his tedious work, using reverse psychology to convince them of its enjoyable nature. When Aunt Polly catches him sneaking home late on a Friday evening and discovers that he has been in a fight, she makes him whitewash her fence the next day as punishment. A fun-loving boy, he frequently skips school to play or go swimming. Petersburg, Missouri, sometime in the 1840s. Tom Sawyer is an orphan who lives with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother Sid in the town of St. Illustration from the 1876 edition by artist True Williams. She pledged to work with the United States and the West to ensure that Pakistan ceased to be the petri dish of international radicals, and to re-establish its bona fidesas a realistic and effective moderate alternative for one billion Muslims around the world. It argues that democracy, economic development, moderation and modernity are the greatest threats to international terrorism. In Reconciliation, Bhutto recounts in gripping detail her final months in Pakistan and offers a bold new agenda for how to stem the tide of Islamic radicalism and to rediscover the values of tolerance and justice that lie at the heart of her religion. RECONCILIATION was her compelling and convincing prescription for the country at the heart of the so-called 'clash of civilizations'. Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West (English Edition) eBook : Bhutto, Benazir: Amazon. In this important new book, completed just days before her assassination, Ms Bhutto demonstrats that extremism is not inherent to Islam, but that various factors, including some policies of the West, have empowered Islamic fundamentalists and are responsible for the current battle for the hearts, minds and bodies of the Umma(the Islamic nation around the world). Part of that process was a clear-eyed assessment of where Pakistan was, and of the nature of its relationship with the West, with Islam, and with extremism. In exile for years, in late 2007 she felt the time had come to actively re-engage and to return to the country she loved. Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, the chairperson of the Pakistan People's Party, was seen as vital to that country's future. The book, an abecedarium, tells of the deaths of twenty-six children, and is told in thirteen rhyming dactylic couplets, accompanied by the author's distinctive black-and-white illustrations. Gorey has stated the book to be inspired by "those 19th century cautionary tales, I guess, though my book is punishment without misbehavior". Far from illustrating the dramatic and fantastical childhood nightmares, these scenarios instead poke fun at the banal paranoias that come as a part of parenting. The morbid humor of the book comes in part from the mundane ways in which the children in the story die, such as falling down the stairs or choking on a peach. It has been described as a "sarcastic rebellion against a view of childhood that is sunny, idyllic, and instructive". It is one of Edward Gorey's best-known books and is the most notorious amongst his roughly half-dozen mock alphabets. The book tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely deaths. The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing is an alphabet book written by Edward Gorey that was first published in 1963 as the first of a collection of short stories called The Vinegar Works, the eleventh work by Gorey. |