Results
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Prince of Egypt: Level 3
Material type:  Text; Format:
print
; Literary form:
Not fiction
Publication details: United Kingdom Pearson Education Limited 2008-11-06
Availability: Items available for loan: Colombo (1)Call number: 428.6/PRI.
|
|
|
|
Half a Life V. S. Naipaul by
Edition: In Half a Life we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Drawn to England, and to the immigrant and bohemian communities of post-war London, it is only in his first experience of love that he finally senses the possibility of fulfilment. In its humorous and sensitive vision of the half-lives quietly lived out at the centre of our world, V.S. Naipaul's graceful novel brings its own unique illumination to essential aspects of our shared history. 'The best novel I have read this year ...the prose is crystalline and seductively so you hardly realize that you are consuming a work of genius until you are plunged deep into a dramatic story which stretches across three continents' Antonia Fraser, Irish Times 'Brilliant ...Writing with a degree of wit and subtlety beyond the grasp of most writers, Naipaul has built a bleak world of discomfort and yearning from which, paradoxically, the reader will not want to escape' Daily Mail 'Parts are as sly and funny as anything Naipaul has written. Nobody who enjoys seeing English beautifully controlled should miss this novel' John Carey, Sunday Times
Material type: Text; Format:
print
; Literary form:
Not fiction
Publication details: United Kingdom Pan Macmillan 01/04/2011
Availability: Items available for loan: Kandy (1)Call number: 823.914/NAI.
|
|
|
|
Solo Rana Dasgupta by
Edition: Winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize 2010. The new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Tokyo Cancelled. 'Solo' recounts the life and daydreams of a reclusive one-hundred-year-old man from Bulgaria. Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of parrots speaking the language of a society that had been wiped out in a recent catastrophe. Astonished by their discovery, they put the parrots in cages and sent them home so that linguists could record what remained of the lost language. But the parrots, already traumatised by the devastation they had recently witnessed, died on the way. Wondering if, unlike the hapless parrots, he has any wisdom to leave to the world, Ulrich embarks on an epic armchair journey through a century of violent politics, forbidden music, lost love and failed chemistry, finding his way eventually to an astonishing epiphany of tenderness and enlightenment.
Material type: Text; Format:
print
; Literary form:
Not fiction
Publication details: United Kingdom HarperCollins Publishers 01/04/2010
Availability: Items available for loan: Colombo (2)Call number: 823.92/DAS, ... Not available: Kandy : Checked out (1).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|