Akhenaten In Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth‚ Naguib Mahfouz writes about a young man named Meriamun‚ who seeks a true and accurate record of the events surrounding the exile and death of the “heretic pharaoh.” He accomplishes this by interviewing all of Akhenaten’s living contemporaries‚ friends‚ and political figures. The effect on the reader through this method is the reading of a story through fourteen different points of view. This type of narration almost makes the book a mystery novel‚ a who-done-it
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A Devoted Son by Anita Desai Summary This story takes place in a shabby suburb in India. Rakesh‚ the son of a vegetable seller‚ triumphs in medical school and afterwards. He is a devoted son‚ bowing to his father‚ marrying the girl his parents choose‚ and becoming the director of his own clinic nearby. His father grows old‚ becomes a widower and begins to develop physical complaints and unpleasant habits‚ such as spitting forcibly. Still‚ his son tends him‚ and even decides to take over the man’s
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Name of the book; Village by the see By; Anita Desai Story; of an Indian family A story of an Indian family‚ staying in a village‚ called Thul‚ almost 14 miles away form Mumbai one of the most famous cities of India. This family consists of a mother who is very sick and lying in bed all the time‚ father who drinks all the time and is unable to work due to his hard drinking habit‚ three sisters and a brother‚ the two younger sisters who are studying at school‚ and an elder sister who has stopped
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means historical discontinuity‚ loss despair‚ with rejection not only at the past but also the present. And it is their human problem that has occupied Anita Desai’s primary interest. She has presented the dilemma of the modern man effectively. Anita Desai is today‚ the most well known among Indian women novelist in English. She completed her education at University of Delhi. At present‚ she is the member of the Faculty of Mount Halyoke College Massachusetts‚ U.S.A. Thrice she was short listed for Booker
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Beloved is a novel by the American writer Toni Morrison. Set after the American Civil War (1861–1865)‚ it is inspired by the story of an AfricanAmerican slave‚ Margaret Garner‚ who temporarily escaped slavery during 1856 in Kentucky by fleeing to Ohio‚ a free state. A posse arrived to retrieve her and her children under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850‚ which gave slave owners the right to pursue slaves across state borders. Margaret killed her two-year-old daughter rather than allow her to be recaptured
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the authorities‚ moving from one ill-paid job to another. What binds these seemingly disparate characters is a shared historical legacy and a common experience of impotence and humiliation. "Certain moves made long ago had produced all of them‚" Desai writes‚ referring to centuries of subjection by the economic and cultural power of the West. But the beginnings of an apparently leveled field in a late-20th-century global economy serve merely to scratch those wounds rather than heal them. Almost
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"This is a novel about a small-town man‚ Deven‚ who gets the opportunity to go interview his hero‚ the great poet Nur‚ the greatest living Urdu poet. Having always loved Urdu poetry and missed the chance to be an Urdu language professor‚ he is charmed into going to Delhi the big city. Even though he shrinks at the idea of possibly being exploited by his sharp and selfish friend Murad‚ the dream of meeting Nur draws him on. So he sets off on a number of adventures on Sundays‚ the one free
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Anita Desai’s Village by the Sea is set in a small village called Thul‚ which is 14 kilometres from Bombay. Lila‚ the eldest child among four siblings‚ is but thirteen years of age‚ yet she already has the outlook and maturity of an adult. Her brother Hari‚ twelve is the only person with whom she can share her troubles . Their mother is an invalid and needs constant care and nursing. Nobody knows what exactly is wrong with her but she grows weaker and weaker with every passing day. Their father
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Part 1‚ Chapters 1 and 2 Summary Anita Desai’s novel of intricate family relations plays out in two countries‚ India and the United States. The core characters comprise a family living in a small town in India‚ where provincial customs and attitudes dictate the futures of all children: girls are to be married off and boys are to become as educated as possible. The story contrasts the life of the main character‚ Uma‚ the family’s older daughter‚ with Arun‚ the boy and baby of the family. Uma spends
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Our exams were over and the result was also declared. Our all classmates passed the exams with flying colours. Myself and my close friend also got very good marks. It was the end of June our school was about to open from 1st of July. One fine morning I received a phone call from a friend of mine that all of us have to collect in school to submit our form for admission to the next class. So the very next day we went to our school. After completing the necessary formalities we all went to the canteen
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