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Eva Mazetti-Nissen Eva Mazetti-Nissen i(A97819 works by)
Born: Established: 1937 ;
Gender: Female
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8 12 y separately published work icon Last Man in Tower : A Novel Aravind Adiga , Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 2011 Z1783763 2011 single work novel 'Searing. Explosive. Lyrical. Compassionate. Here is the astonishing new novel by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger, a book that took rage and anger at injustice and turned it into a thrilling murder story. Now, with the same fearlessness and insight, Aravind Adiga broadens his canvas to give us a riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the booming city of Mumbai.

At the heart of this novel are two equally compelling men, poised for a showdown. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city's most elite addresses. Larger-than-life Shah is a dangerous man to refuse. But he meets his match in a retired schoolteacher called Masterji. Shah offers Masterji and his neighbors—the residents of Vishram Society's Tower A, a once respectable, now crumbling apartment building on whose site Shah's luxury high-rise would be built—a generous buyout. They can't believe their good fortune. Except, that is, for Masterji, who refuses to abandon the building he has long called home. As the demolition deadline looms, desires mount; neighbors become enemies, and acquaintances turn into conspirators who risk losing their humanity to score their payday.

Here is a richly told, suspense-fueled story of ordinary people pushed to their limits in a place that knows none: the new India as only Aravind Adiga could explore—and expose—it. Vivid, visceral, told with both humor and poignancy, Last Man in Tower is his most stunning work yet.' (Publisher's blurb)
11 4 y separately published work icon Between the Assassinations Aravind Adiga , New York (City) : Free Press , 2009 Z1603702 2009 selected work novel

Set in the small Karnataka town of Kittur, ...Assassinations attempts a portrait of the town and its inhabitants, across class, caste, religion and occupation. Among them are an illiterate Muslim boy who is dazzled by a handsome Islamic terrorist a Dalit bookseller arrested for selling a pirated copy of The Satanic Verses a journalist confronting the yawning gap between what happened during a communal riot and what his newspaper is willing to print and the widow of a farmer who turns in vain to the local Communist leader for help. 'What emerges,' according to the blurb, 'is the moral biography of an Indian town in the seven-year period between the assassinations of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi-a time of great transformations.' (Publisher's blurb)
43 35 y separately published work icon The White Tiger Aravind Adiga , London : Atlantic Books , 2008 Z1521556 2008 single work novel (taught in 2 units) 'Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him along.' (Publisher's blurb)
17 7 y separately published work icon Nine Parts of Desire : The Hidden World of Islamic Women Geraldine Brooks , ( trans. Bernhard Robben with title Die töchter Allahs ) Munich : Bertelsmann , 1994 Z1804386 1994 single work non-fiction "Australian writer Geraldine Brooks is best-known today for her Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction. But as a foreign correspondent Geraldine spent six years covering the Middle East. For her, headline events were also the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily life of Muslim women, and Nine Parts of Desire is the story of her intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils. Fair-minded and often revelatory, Nine Parts of Desire is an extraordinarily rich tapestry of the different lives women lead under Islam, and a captivating and diverse portrait of a little known world. An international bestseller, this new edition of Nine Parts of Desire features an Australian Afterword."--Provided by publisher.
5 y separately published work icon Promises Catherine Gaskin , London : Collins , 1982 Z1070426 1982 single work novel historical fiction
7 y separately published work icon Family Affairs Catherine Gaskin , London Sydney : Collins , 1980 Z1014686 1980 single work novel romance 'Catherine Gaskins's new novel is the rich and dramatic chronicle of a remarkable family, and of Kelly, the woman who shaped it. Their story moves from the Australian Outback to the exclusive heart of London; it tells of their private passions and public scandals; of the love and loyalty that sustained them, and the secret treachery that almost destroyed them.' - from the preface to the novel
12 7 y separately published work icon An Indecent Obsession Colleen McCullough , Sydney : Harper and Row , 1981 Z95298 1981 single work novel

'The Second World War has just ended and Sister Honour Langtree, a caring and conscientious Army nurse, cares for a striking mixture of five battle-broken soldiers being treated in the psychiatric care section of the hospital. To the soldiers, Honour is a precious, adored reminder of the world before war – they are as devoted to her as she is to them.

'Then Seargent Michael Wilson arrives. A damaged and decorated hero, Wilson is a man of secrets and silent pain. Honour finds herself drawn to this tortured man, and discovers a love that will ultimately lead to a violent tragedy.'

Source : publisher's blurb
8 y separately published work icon The Summer of the Spanish Woman Catherine Gaskin , London : Collins , 1977 Z1118641 1977 single work novel
2 y separately published work icon Chain of Infamy George Beare , London : John Long , 1972 Z798438 1972 single work novel
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