From the Nobel Prize winner & best-selling author of Snow & My Name Is Red, a fable of fathers & sons & the desires that come between them. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well digger & his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating meter by meter, the two will develop a filial bond neither has known before -not the poor middle-aged bachelor nor the middle-class boy whose father disappeared after being arrested for politically subversive activities. The pair will come to depend on each other & exchange stories reflecting disparate views of the world. But in the nearby town, where they buy provisions & take their evening break, the boy will find an irresistible diversion. The Red-Haired Woman, an alluring member of a travelling theatre company, catches his eye & seems as fascinated by him as he is by her. The young man`s wildest dream will be realized, but, when in his distraction a horrible accident befalls the well digger, the boy will flee, returning to Istanbul. Only years later will he discover whether he was in fact responsible for his master`s death & who the redheaded enchantress was. ...

Shortlisted for the EBRD Literature Prize for best work of literary fiction translated into English. On the outskirts of a town thirty miles from Istanbul, a master well-digger & his young apprentice are hired to find water on a barren plain. As they struggle in the summer heat, excavating metre by metre, the two will develop a father/son bond that neither has known before. But in the nearby town, where they spend their evenings, the boy will find an irresistible diversion. The Red-Haired Woman, an alluring member of a travelling theatre group, catches his eye, & she seems as fascinated by him as he is by her. But in his distraction a horrible accident occurs, & he will spend his life unaware of the outcome, or who the Red-Haired Woman was, until many years later. ...

In Jo Nesbo’s The Redbreast, a report of a rare & unusual gun – the type favoured by assassins
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It is a freezing December night & Christmas shoppers have gathered to listen to a carol concert. Then a shot rings out & one of the singers falls to the floor, dead. Detective Harry Hole & his team are called in to investigate but have little to work with
- there is no immediate suspect, no weapon & no motive. But when the assassin discovers he`s shot the wrong man, Harry finds his troubles have only just begun.
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What makes India a nation? What has held its many disparate societies with their diverse, sometimes conflicting, narratives together for more than sixty years? What has allowed India to sustain its commitment to the democratic process, given its location in a region that is largely undemocratic? In this magisterial analysis of the last five hundred years of Indian history, Meghnad Desai looks at India`s colonial past, its struggle for independence & its many contemporary conundrums, to discover answers to the questions that have confronted India-watchers for decades. Meghnad Desai draws on a wealth of sources to illuminate India`s journey to the twenty-first century. Whether it is an examination of British parliamentary debates on the question of India`s independence, or the liberalization of the economy after decades of licence-permit Raj, or the state`s complicity in the Gujarat riots, Meghnad Desai`s original, occasionally iconoclastic, approach to seemingly settled arguments makes The Rediscovery of India a ground-breaking & comprehensive account of India`s past & present. ...

From the winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ` Nguyen`s eight heart-wrenching & hopeful stories ought to be required reading for every politician in this era of wall-building & xenophobia` the Guardian In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland & the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia & starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams & hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice, The Refugees is a beautifully written & sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, & the relationships & desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives.` With anger but not despair, with reconciliation but not unrealistic hope, & with genuine humour that is not used to diminish anyone, Nguyen has breathed life into many unforgettable characters, & given us a timely book focusing, in the words of Willa Cather, on ”the slow working out of fate in people of allied sentiment & allied blood”` the Guardian ...

In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland & the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia & starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half-sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will, the stories are a captivating testament to the dreams & hardships of immigration. The second piece of fiction by a major new voice, The Refugees is a beautifully written & sharply observed book about the aspirations of those who leave one country for another, & the relationships & desires for self-fulfillment that define our lives. ...

This antique style floor standing 16 inch diameter globe is mounted so it can rotate by longitude & latitude. With clear political borders in tonal hues, shipping routes & distances shown, marked mountain peaks with elevations & many raised mountain ranges. This globe would be a great addition to a home or office. ...

The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barker`s sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction. 1917, Scotl&. At Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotl&, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to the front. In his care are poets Siegfried Sassoon & Wilfred Owen, & Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil & paper... Regeneration, The Eye in the Door & The Ghost Road follow the stories of these men until the last months of the war. Widely acclaimed & admired, Pat Barker`s Regeneration trilogy paints with moving detail the far-reaching consequences of a conflict which decimated a generation. ” Harrowing, original, delicate & unforgettable”. (Independent). ”A new vision of what the First World War did to human beings, male & female, soldiers & civilians. Constantly surprising & formally superb”. (A. S. Byatt, Daily Telegraph). ” One of the few real masterpieces of late twentieth-century British fiction”. (Jonathan Coe). Pat Barker was born in 1943. Her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration (1991); which was made into a film of the same name; The Eye in the Door (1993), which won the Guardian Fiction Prize; & The Ghost Road (1995), which won the Booker Prize, as well as the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision, Life Class & Toby`s Room. She lives in Durham. ...

From the bestselling author of The Real Bravo Two Zero comes the definitive history of the world`s most elite fighting force
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