By Howard Jacobson
Rs 958
‘He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one’. Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize, Jacobson’s wry, devastating novel examines the complexities of identity and belonging, love, and grief through the lens of contemporary Judaism.
The Finkler Question is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows Jacobson at his brilliant best.
Jacobson’s prose is effortless-witty when it needs to be, heartbreaking where it counts-and the Jewish question becomes a metaphor without ever being overdone.
McQuail’s Mass Communication Theory (6th Edition)
By Denis McQuail
Rs 1040
McQuail’s Mass Communication Theory has been the benchmark for studying mass communication theory for more than 25 years.
Fully up-to-date, this new edition includes: New boxed case studies on key research publications, familiarizing students with the critical research texts in the field, a new streamlined structure for better navigation, more definitions, examples, and illustrations throughout to bring abstract concepts to life as well as major updates on new media, globalization, work and economy.
McQuail’s masterful tome on communications theory is a respected standard for college students, and there’s a reason this book has gone through so many editions. Just about everything a communications major will ever study is introduced and summarized here.
Luka and the Fire of Life
By Salman Rushdie
Rs 798
Rushdie unleashes his imagination on an alternate world informed by the surreal logic of video games, but the author’s lighter-than-air fantasies don’t amount to more than a clever pastiche.
A sequel of sorts to Haroun and the Sea of Stories, this outing finds Haroun’s younger brother, Luka, on a mission to save his father, guided, ironically, by Nobodaddy, a holograph-like copy of his father intent on claiming the old man’s life. Along the way, they’re joined by a collection of creatures.
Rushdie makes good use of Nobodaddy, and his world occasionally brims with allegory (the colony of rats called the “Respectorate of I” brings the Tea Party to mind), but this is essentially a fun tale for younger readers, not the novel Rushdie’s adult fans have been waiting for.
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