Good reads
A God in Every Stone, Six Billion Shoppers and In The Skin of a Lion
A God in Every Stone by Kamila Shamsie
Price: Rs 798
Summer, 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is in an ancient land, about to discover the Temple of Zeus, the call of adventure, and love. Thousands of miles away a twenty-year-old Pathan, Qayyum Gul, is learning about brotherhood and loyalty in the British Indian army. Summer, 1915. Viv has been separated from the man she loves; Qayyum has lost an eye at Ypres. They meet on a train to Peshawar, unaware that a connection is about to be forged between their lives – one that will reveal itself fifteen years later when anti-colonial resistance, an ancient artifact and a mysterious woman will bring them together again. Kamila Shamsie was born in 1973 in Pakistan. She is the author of four previous novels: In the City by the Sea, Kartography (both shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Salt and Saffron and Broken Verses.
Six Billion Shoppers by Porter Erisman
Price: Rs 958
In The Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
Price: Rs 638
A nun is blown off an unfinished bridge in Toronto, one night in the early 20th century. She is caught by a construction worker who brings her to safety. They go to a deserted restaurant, where he drinks and falls asleep. When he wakes, she is gone. He gets a doctor to set his dislocated shoulder, and tells no one that she is not dead. This is the premise of Ondaatje’s brilliant storytelling, and it makes for a gripping narrative that is sure to keep you hooked. Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario. In the course of his adventures, Patrick’s life intersects with those of characters who reappear in Ondaatje’s Booker Prize-winning, The English Patient. There’s love, despair, intrigue and, eventually, a compulsion to commit a violent act where Ondaatje uses “a brilliant spell of language” to spin this perfect tale.
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