Rs. 3,060.00
A book which intimately portrays a luminous but changing world and the ways memory – and myth – can be built and broken.
About book – The Stranger’s Child
A charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. The weekend will be one of excitements and confusions for everyone, but it is on George’s sixteen-year-old sister Daphne that it will have the most lasting impact.
As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance and, as reputations rise and fall, the events of that long-ago summer become part of a legendary story.
| ISBN-13 | 9781509852048 |
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| Language | English |
“Brilliance in basics!” That’s what this collection is all about. Each word, each phrase sensitively planned, stirs thoughts so simple yet so complex. Sometimes playful, sometimes melancholy, sometimes meditative, often like life itself… It’s akin to a painted canvas by a child, personifying the simplicity of this world which is often complicated by us, the adults. —Ā Sandya Salgado, author of ‘Not Just My Good Karma’
The writer is immersed in sensory awareness of the natural world, and his memories are vivid with textures, sounds and sights which give the reader access to them. Each recollection is brief but intense and impressionistic in its dynamic impact. The power of the contrasts given to us in his travels resonates with the awareness he has of the complexity of human experience. These are insights and glimpses which activate the reader’s own memories and curiosities about the whole adventure of journeying through deeply felt landscapes — Dr Devika Brandon
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When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham.
