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017339
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London, Vintage, 2014.
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329pPale brown spine
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David is a small boy who has come by boat across the ocean to a new country. He has been separated from his parents, and has lost the piece of paper that would have explained everything. On the boat a Man named Simon has taken it upon himself to look after the boy. On arrival they have been assigned new names, new birthdays. They know nothing about the customs of their new country. They know little Spanish, the language spoken there. They are people without a past. Simon wants to find the boy's mother. He feels sure he will know her when he sees her. 'But after we find her' David asks, 'what are we hear for?'.
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9780099581550 Pb.
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000825
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New York, Scribner, 2003.
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316pBlue spine
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In the city of Johannesburg a father seeks his delinquent son. His search takes him through a labyrinth of murder, prostitution, racial hatred and, ultimately, reconciliation.
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9780743262170 Hb.
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| 004576 | 823/PAT | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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017342
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London, Vintage, 2007.
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231pBlack spine
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"Señor C," an aging author, has been asked by his German publisher to write his thoughts on the state of the world. These thoughts address a wide range of subjects and include a scathing indictment of Bush, Cheney and Blair, as well as a witheringly honest examination of everything from Machiavelli to intelligent design. Meanwhile, the writer hires a young woman to type his manuscript. The relationship that develops has a profound effect on both of them.
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9780099516224 Pb.
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| I01115 | 823/COE | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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017341
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London, Vintage, 2000.
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219pBlack spine
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A white woman is gang-raped by blacks in this novel on post-apartheid South Africa. But she understands such settling of scores is inevitable, given what whites did to blacks, and she keeps the baby.
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9780099284826 Pb.
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| I01117 | 823/COE | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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024758
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Set of school exam papers.
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| 022600 | 823/NSS | Main | On Shelf | Teacher Resources | Teacher Resource |
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021868
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Set of school examination papers.
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| 020440 | 823/NSS | Main | On Shelf | Teacher Resources | Teacher Resource |
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024768
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Set of school exam papers.
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| 022610 | 823/NSS | Main | On Shelf | Teacher Resources | Teacher Resource |
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026557
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New Delhi, HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
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176pRed spine
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Traversing continents and orbits, styles and themes, in rich, original and frequently surprising ways, the stories testify to the range and depth of Indian writing in English. Variously lyric, satiric, tragic and fantastic, they are unified in their vigour and humanity. The anthology features a rich assortment of voices from both new authors and established names including Abraham Verghese, Manju Kapur, Githa Hariharan and Amitava Kumar. With an insightful introduction by Khushwant Singh, one of India's foremost literary personalities, this is the definitive survey of a lively modern scene.
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9788172235840 Pb.
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| I02612 | 823/SIN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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001564
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New Delhi, Penguin Group, 1989.
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276pOrange Spine
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An intimate glimpse into events as they tear apart the world of Lenny, a young Parsee girl growing up in the pungent busybodying city of Lahore.
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0140117679 Pb.
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| 004580 | 823/SID | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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003311
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India, Rupa & Co, 2007.
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247pPale pink spine
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This quirky novel - a besteller in India - chronicles an Indian student's year abroad at an American university. Gopal's hilarious misadventures with the American language, his flamboyant landlady, the ubiquitous hamburger, and, most of all, American women, form the basis for this wonderfully truthful story. Faced with the relentless sexuality of his fellow college students, the quintessentially decent Gopal reacts with a mixture of disbelief, sly amusement, and hormonal overload. Throughout his battles with racism, his own insecurity, and his family's warning that he will be severely judged should he dabble in America's temptations, Gopal retains a dignity and surprising shrewdness, rejecting the worst of what American offers even as he recognizes the best. Following reluctantly behind the outrageous leadership of his American friend Randy, the naive but observant Gopal reacts with a wit that far transcends his linguistic limitations.
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8171670407 Pb.
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| 004607 | 823.914/MAT | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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017348
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London, Vintage, 2004.
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184pBlack spine
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In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life & Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human existence - the need for an interior, spiritual life and for purity of vision.
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9780099479154 Pb.
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| I01119 | 823/COE | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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017344
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London, Vintage, 2013.
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xvii, 647pBlue spine
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The author of The Satanic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and finds himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent-and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts-inner voices and a wildly sensitive sense of smell-we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of this century.
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9780099582076 Pb.
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010963
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2006
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New York, Bantam Dell, 1915.
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712pGrey spine
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The story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few months of studying in Heidelberg and a brief spell in Paris as a would-be artist, Philip settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative and tortured affair which very nearly ruins him.
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055321392X Pb.
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ID:
018018
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New York, Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1974.
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165pGreen Spine
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Sensitive to his hometown's reactions, an insecure young boy is sure he will be the object of ridicule when his orphaned Vietnamese cousin comes to live with them.
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0689304080 Hb.
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019539
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New York, Anchor Books, 2001.
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Pale blue spine
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A young man travels to the holy city of Benares to complete his university studies and, obsessed by western culture, finds himself suspended between conflicted worlds.
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9780385720809 Pb.
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| I01637 | 823/MIS | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
014316
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London, Vintage, 2005.
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263pWhite spine
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When photographer Paul Rayment loses his leg in a bicycle accident, his solitary life is irrevocably changed. Stubbornly refusing a prosthesis, Paul returns to his bachelor's apartment in Adelaide, uncomfortable with his new dependency on others. He is given to bouts of hopelessness as he looks back on his sixty years of life, but his spirits rise when he finds himself falling in love with Marijana, his practical, down-to-earth Croatian nurse who is struggling to raise her family in a foreign land. As Paul contemplates how to win her heart, he is visited by the mysterious writer Elizabeth Costello, who challenges Paul to take an active role in his own life." "In this new book, J. M. Coetzee offers a meditation on what makes us human, on what it means to grow older and reflect on how we have lived our lives. Slow Man is a novel that asks questions but rarely provides answers; it is a portrait of a man in search of truth. Paul Rayment's accident changes his perspective on life, and as a result he begins to address the kinds of universal concerns that define us all: What does it mean to do good? What in our lives is ultimately meaningful? Is it more important to be loved or to be cared for? How do we define the place we call "home"?"
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9780099490623 Pb.
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ID:
013781
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| A00077 | 823/COX | Main | On Shelf | Non Book Material | |
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017347
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London, Vintage, 2009.
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266pLight blue spine
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A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on the years from 197 to1977 when Coetzee, in his thirties, is sharing a run-down cottage in the suburbs of Cape Town with his widowed father. This, the biographer senses, is the period when he was 'finding his feet as a writer'. Never having met Coetzee, he embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to him ; a married woman with whom he had an affair, his favourite cousin Margot, a Brazilian dancer whose daughter had English lessons with him, former friends and colleagues. From their testimony emerges a portrait of the young Coetzee as an awkward, bookish individual with little talent for opening himself to others. Within the family he is regarded as an outsider, someone who tried to flee the tribe and has now returned, chastened. His insistence on doing manual work, his long hair and beard, rumours that he writes poetry evoke nothing but suspicion in the South African.
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9780099540540 Pb.
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ID:
020497
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London, Vintage Books, 2004.
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170pBrown spine
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For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and his Empire. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and an act of rebellion which sees him imprisoned as an enemy of the state.
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9780099465935 Pb.
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