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Honeymoon with my Brother is one of the most unusual stories but a must read because it sounds very funny thing happened to Franz Wisner on his way to the altar. For starters, his fiance dumped him just days before their wedding. With guests en route and festivities prepaid, Franz decided to have the wedding anyway…just without a bride. He then chose to take his brother Kurt on his scheduled Costa Rican honeymoon. They canceled the flower arrangements, swapped champagne for beer, and promised not to carry each other over any thresholds. Read the rest of this entry »

The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare, with great courage, passion and eloquence, by a mind that has engaged unhesitatingly with its changing realities, often anticipating the way things have moved in the last decade.In the fourteen interviews collected here, conducted between January 2001 and March 2008, Arundhati Roy examines the nature of state and corporate power as it has emerged during this period, and the shape that resistance movements are taking. As she speaks, among other things, about people displaced by dams and industry, the genocide in Gujarat, Maoist rebels, the war in Kashmir and the global War on Terror, she raises fundamental questions about democracy, justice and non-violent protest. Read the rest of this entry »

Everyone has their secrets. In her stunning new collection of stories, Jhumpa Lahiri gently lifts the veil to reveal how even the most ordinary lives have their dramas and tragedies and then, as gently, lets it fall back down again. A middle-aged man discovers that the death of his wife opens up his world in unexpected ways, his daughter worries that she will now have to look after him but finds that the tables, in fact, have turned; a housewife falls in love with a family friend, her child ascertains her secret years on; a young man and woman whose lives cross over the years, finally and fatedly fall in love.

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