![]() ![]() The song was used in the 2000 film The Million Dollar Hotel, and the promotional music video featured Rushdie in a cameo appearance. The lyrics to the song, with minor changes, were adapted and recorded by U2. The title is taken from a song in the novel, composed by Ormus Cama after Vina's death. Defined by Toni Morrison as "a global novel", the book sets itself in the wide frame of Western and post-colonial culture, through the multilingualism of its characters, the mixture of East and West and the great number of references that span from Greek mythology, European philosophy and contemporaries such as Milan Kundera and the stars of rock'n roll. The book, while at its core detailing the love of two men, Ormus Cama and Umeed "Rai" Merchant (the narrator of the story), for the same woman, Vina Apsara, provides a background and alternate history to the entire 1950s–1990s period of the growth of rock music. The myth works as a red thread from which the author sometimes strays, but to which he attaches an endless series of references. ![]() Published in 1999, it is a variation on the Orpheus/Eurydice myth, with rock music replacing Orpheus's lyre. The Ground Beneath Her Feet is Salman Rushdie's sixth novel. ![]()
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Using Rosemary Radford Ruether's feminist Biblical ideas, the article argues that the stories, as samples of science fiction, expose a posthumanist perspective where existence of human kind is defined based on a mutual, non-hierarchical relationship between human beings and nature. ![]() This article explores the relationship between a posthuman representative of humanity and nature in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower (2007) and Parable of the Talents (2007). ![]() ![]() How to be a Lion by Ed Vere italicises the need to speak up for yourself and those less strong than yourself. "A gentle read with an overwhelming power. "A philosophical tale so, so full of heart, celebrating the quietest and gentlest among us." Library Mice "Framed by a glowing palette of burnt yellows and oranges, and infused with humour and warmth, this thought provoking fable celebrates courage, individuality and the power of words." The Bookseller "gently reminiscent of Winnie the Pooh" BookTrust ED VERE is the author and illustrator of numerous picture books, including How to Be a Lion and the New York Times and USA Today bestseller Max the Brave. Thoughtful and provocative words to live by." School Library Journal ![]() ![]() "Children will feel empowered after reading such a deliberate story of unyielding strength and self-awareness. This marvelous book triumphs in that essential job." Kirkus "Positive role models showing boys how to be a whole person are few and far between these days. What will the pair do when their way of life is threatened?įrom the New York Times-bestselling author of Max the Brave comes a powerful story celebrating daydreamers, individuality and the quiet courage to be yourself. Leonard's best friend is Marianne, a duck. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() To earn money for her education, she held many odd jobs, including babysitting, selling merchandise in an Indian boutique, slicing bread in a bakery, and washing instruments in a science lab. from the University of California, Berkeley. She continued her education in the field of English by receiving a Master’s degree from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and a Ph.D. She was born in India and lived there until 1976, at which point she left Calcutta and came to the United States. Her newest novel is Before We Visit the Goddess (about 3 generations of women- grandmother, mother and daughter- who each examine the question "what does it mean to be a successful woman.") Simon & Schuster. Divakaruni also writes for children and young adults.Her novels One Amazing Thing, Oleander Girl, Sister of My Heart and Palace of Illusions are currently in the process of being made into movies. Her works have been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Hindi and Japanese. Her work is widely known, as she has been published in over 50 magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her writing has been included in over 50 anthologies. ![]() ![]() Her themes include the Indian experience, contemporary America, women, immigration, history, myth, and the joys and challenges of living in a multicultural world. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is an award-winning author and poet. ![]() ![]() ![]() Alexa, who works as the chief of staff for the city’s mayor, rushes to join her sister, who is visiting the city in celebration of her promotion at a law firm in New York City. ![]() The novel opens on an ordinary weekend night in San Francisco. Though they nearly slip away from each other, Alexa and Drew learn to negotiate their career goals and personal biases, building harmony despite their unorthodox relationship. The chance encounter causes them to string each other along in a romance, leading to a series of encounters in which certain idealizations about each other break down. They meet serendipitously in an elevator in San Francisco, leading Drew to invite her on a date to his friend’s wedding. ![]() A modern recapitulation of the “star-crossed lovers” plot, American author Jasmine Guillory’s romance novel The Wedding Date follows two career-focused adults, Alexa Monroe and Drew Nichols, who live at opposite ends of California. ![]() ![]() ![]() Of all of Henry VIII's six wives, Katherine Howard stood out - and still does today - because she was the least meant for the crown. But her bliss is short-lived as rumors of her wayward past come back to haunt her, and Katherine’s destiny takes another, deadly, turn. Overwhelmed by the change in her fortunes, bewildered and flattered by the adoration of her husband, Katherine is dazzled by the royal life. The royal palaces are exciting to a young girl from the country, and that her duties there allow her to be near her handsome cousin, Thomas Culpepper, whom she has loved since childhood.īut when Katherine catches the eye of the aging and unhappily married king, she is forced to abandon her plans for a life with Thomas and marry King Henry. Like her cousin Anne Boleyn, she leaves her grandmother’s home to become a lady-in-waiting at the court of Henry VIII. Beautiful and impressionable, Katherine becomes involved in two ill-fated love affairs before her sixteenth birthday. ![]() ![]() The innocent girl quickly learns that her grandmother’s puritanism is not shared by Katherine’s free-spirited cousins, with whom she lives. Born into an impoverished branch of the noble Howard family, young Katherine is plucked from her home to live with her grandmother, the Duchess of Norfolk. ![]() ![]() ![]() iPad/iPhone – Kindle + Other Formats – Read Online NowĪnd five volumes of audiobooks as well (all the better to work their way into your subconscious):Īnd if, beyond perhaps reading here and there about pits, pendulums, ravens, and casks in Italy, you’ve never plunged into the canon produced by this troubled master of letters - American Romantic, acknowledged adept of the macabre, inventor of detective fiction, and contributor to the eventual emergence of science fiction - your chance has come. ![]() ![]() Today we’ve collected Poe’s freely available, public domain works of pure psychological unsettlement into five volumes of eBooks: And given that he lived and wrote entirely in the first half of the 19th century, few American writers can do it at so little financial cost to you, the reader. With Halloween fast approaching, let us remind you that few American writers can get you into the existentially chilling spirit of this climatically chilling season than Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written with James Patterson's perfect pitch for emotion and suspense, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas captures beautifully the joys of a new family even as it builds to an overwhelmingly moving climax. She reads on, filled with terror and hope, as she struggles to understand what has happened-and whether her new love has a prayer of surviving. As Katie reads this touching document, it becomes clear that the lover who has just left her is the husband and father in this young family. In it she pours out her heart about how she and the boy's father met, about her hopes for marriage and family, and about the unparalleled joy that having a baby has brought into her life. This diary is a love letter written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby son, Nicholas. But one day, without explanation, he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read. He's a writer, a house painter, an original thinker-everything she's imagined she wanted in a partner. Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. Discover James Patterson's powerfully moving novel of love, loss, hope, and family. ![]() ![]() Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prizewinner Madhuri Vijay’s The. Anthony Marra, New York Timesbestselling author. Recipient of many awards and honors for her work including the Guggenheim, Caroline Herschel and Radcliffe fellowships, she also holds the Sophie and Tycho Brahe Professorship at the Dark Cosmology Center at the University of Copenhagen, and an honorary professorship for life at the University of Delhi.Īside from research, she is also deeply invested in the public dissemination of science. Vijay traces the fault lines of history, love, and obligation running through a fractured family and country. She has proposed and worked on models for the formation of massive black hole seeds, direct collapse black holes and their observational signatures. Another abiding interest has been the study of the growth history of black holes over cosmic time and, in particular, the formation of the first seed black holes. She uses gravitational lensing observations, the deflection of light rays by matter in the universe, to map the detailed distribution of dark matter. She is recognized for her seminal contributions to the study of dark matter and the formation and growth of black holes. Priyamvada Natarajan is a theoretical astrophysicist at Yale. MADHURI VIJAY (HarperCollins India) Buy Now Download Chapter One A woman lands in Kashmir amidst political turmoil to unravel the mystery of her mother’s death In the wake of her mothers death, Shalini, a privileged and restless young woman from Bengaluru, sets out for a remote Himalayan village in the troubled northern region of Kashmir. ![]() ![]() ![]() CONJURE WIFE is scary in a way very few fantasy books have ever struck me. That would go over with a heavy crash.) But Leiber overcame all these points beautifully, telling his story with such deftness that I quickly got completely caught up in the tale. ![]() (Imagine a story where women are only successful in their careers because men have secretly agreed to cover up for them. It also seemed a bit demeaning to present a world where men only succeed because women are secretly protecting them from other witches. ![]() I have never been that impressed by stories involving traditional witchcraft, and the premise here that all women worldwide are secretly practicing witchcraft without men finding out seemed pretty It won me over, despite the fact that I started it with a few misgivings that sort of unfairly prejudiced me against it. From the April 1943 issue of UNKNOWN WORLDS, this was the first full-length novel by Fritz Leiber. ![]() |