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The Hall of a Thousand
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Forty-two and married for
half her life, Jessie Sullivan honestly believes she is happy. She has a
lovely home, a dependable husband and an accomplished teenage daughter.
But when she returns to the remote island of her childhood, to establish
the cause of her mother’s increasingly strange behaviour, Jessie is
drawn to Brother Thomas, a Benedictine monk on the verge of taking his
final vows. As the relationship deepens, she is torn between her
powerful new longings and her enduring marriage. Sue Monk Kidd is the
author of the international bestseller The Secret Life of Bees,
as well as two widely acclaimed memoirs, The Dance of the Dissident
Daughter and When the Heart Waits.
After Gujarat and Other
Poems After Gujarat, the first section of this volume, contains 22 poems that are a response to the events following February 27, 2002, in Godhra. Here a train coach carrying kar sewaks returning from Ayodhya caught fire, leading to the death of 58 passengers. The next day a massacre of Gujarati Muslims began. Before Gujarat, the second section of 16 poems, covers a quieter, more reflective world. But this too is not untouched by events such as India and Pakistan’s nuclear detonations and conflict in West Asia. |
THIS award-winning travel
writer (author of best-selling Travels with a Tangerine) has
already entranced readers with his tales of taking to the road, across
the centuries, with Ibn Batutah — the great Arab wanderer who from
1325 to 1355 visited most of the known world between Morocco and China.
Here Tim Mackintosh-Smith again takes up the journey of legendary
Moroccan traveller from Hindustan to Malabar, revealing the rich tales
of the Indian subcontinent. In this eagerly awaited new chapter of the
epic journey, the author aims to sift tangible history from magical
reality — and on the way he reveals an India far off the beaten path
of the Taj and Raj.
The Mermaid Chair
