| The return of the short story | 04-AUG-09 |
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| For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn.” Hemingway’s finest short story was written for a $10 bet, has never been bettered and hints at an entire universe of love, loss and grief in its three two-word sentences. |
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| Bittersweet symphonies | 01-JUL-09 |
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| Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the most elegant prose writers around and each of his six novels has been marked by a simple, immediately recognisable style — so unobtrusive that it doesn’t even appear to be a “style” at first glance. |
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| Music, high life, hauntings | 20-JUN-09 |
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| At first, flipping through the early pages, I tossed the book aside angrily, its very premise, the purchase of a fake Amrita Sher-gil, wrongly attributed to the contemporary genre, enough to prove annoying. The book has several such gaffes, but I’m glad that boredom and the lack of anything else to read led me to pick it up yet again. |
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| Sunil Sethi: Booking the Booker | 08-OCT-05 |
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| The most prestigious literary prize in the English-speaking world, the Booker, will be announced in London next week, on October 10. For nearly four decades the #50,000 award has established a |
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| Nilanjana S Roy: Summer reading: Fiction | 15-MAR-05 |
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| We may have to wait till July for the next Harry Potter or, if you prefer more High Literary fare, till September for Salman Rushdies Shalimar the Clown to come out.
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| 4 must-reads by a master of understatement | 12-MAR-05 |
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| Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguros latest novel Never Let Me Go has just hit the stands. This is an event, because Ishiguro, one of the most elegant of living writers, produces a new book |
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