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Gifted

Autor Nikita Lalwani
en Limba Engleză Paperback – mai 2008
In a voice that is by turns very funny and fiercely tender,Giftedby Nikita Lalwani brings us a captivating story of high aspirations and deep longing, and of the sometime loneliness of childhood.

Cardiff in the 1980s is a place where maths can get you noticed. Rumis Vasi is the town's 'maths prodigy': untangling numbers and Rubik's Cubes protects her from the harsh vagaries of the playground and gives a pattern to her world. But after years of her father's determined tutoring, Rumi finds that numbers are beginning to lose their innocence. India infuses her with a romantic sense of belonging and, as she grows older, and desire becomes a dirty word in the Vasi household, the idea of love is opened up to painful examination.

'A sparkling funny and poignant study of a young maths prodigy struggling with her gift and a difficult family' Gerard Woodward, Books Of The Year,Observer

'Superb, brilliantly realised. The searing narrative is unflinchingly and tenderly written'Independent

'Compelling, heart-wrenching and laced with redemptive hope . . . Touching and funny'Observer

Nikita Lalwani was born in Rajasthan and raised in Cardiff. Her first novelGiftedwas longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Desmond Elliott Prize. She lives in London.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780141030395
ISBN-10: 0141030399
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Nikita Lalwaniwas born in Rajasthan and raised in Cardiff. She has written two novels previously,GiftedandThe Village.Her first novelGiftedwas longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Desmond Elliott Prize. She was also nominated for theSunday TimesYoung Writer of the Year Award. She lives in London.

Recenzii

A sparkling funny and poignant study of a young maths prodigy struggling with her gift and a difficult family
Superb, brilliantly realised. The searing narrative is unflinchingly and tenderly written
Pinpoints with genuine insight the bewilderment and anguish of a young woman marked out from her peers
Lalwani's evocation of teenage dislocation is pitch-perfect and she inhabits her heroine's interior world with tender authority
The novel's triumph is in elucidating the hurt of both child and parents. Lalwani compellingly depicts the pain and pleasure of breaking the rules
Beautiful, brilliant . . . Unveils the grand emotions and tiny details of other people's lives with insight, compassion, humour and heartbreaking honesty
Accomplished and confident. Much to admire from the assured descriptions to the well judged blend of comedy and drama
A poignant, vivid debut. Beautifully describes the dramas of growing up
A giddy portrayal of youthful exuberance unleashed that rings startlingly true
Compelling, heart-wrenching and laced with redemptive hope . . . Touching and funny