Harvest Books
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Loneliness and despair invade the world of an engineer who comes to realize that he has failed as a friend, husband, and father
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Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
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'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America...' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invited to join him for tea, you learn his name and what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out.
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Chronicles the lifelong friendship and rivalry between Feliu Delargo, a Catalan cellist, and eccentric piano prodigy Justo Al-Cerraz, a relationship that is dramatically transformed by the arrival in their lives of Aviva, an Italian violinist with a haunted past.
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The Best American Short Stories 2009 ; Selected from U.S. and Canadian Magazines by Alice Sebold
Collectif
- Harvest books paperbacks
- 27 Octobre 2009
- 9780618792252
A collection edited by the best-selling author of
The Lovely Bones , The Almost Moon , and Lucky includes stories by such authors as Annie Proulx, Richard Powers, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Yiyun Li, Daniel Alarcón, and others. Original.
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Masterfully brings to life a profoundly exotic yet utterly recognizable family in the midst of social upheaval in an evocative story that spans the lifetime of one woman in a Brahmin household from 1896 through 1962, in a novel inspired by the author's grandmother's stories. Reprint
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