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...Anuradha Roy, a publisher based mostly in New Delhi, sets her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, during the Indian subcontinent's most momentous years. Between 1907, when the novel opens, and its conclusion circa 1956, the subcontinent saw the struggle for independence and tragedy of partition. But these impinge on Roy's tale of private lives subtly, almost as noises offstage - for the novel is above all a love story...
...romance, this is a story of homes, homelessness and what it means to be an outsider. In several instances in the novel, the ownership or loss of home and property opens the way for events of crucial emotional significance. "Home is where one starts from," wrote T.S. Eliot. But Roy's novel upends that idea with infinitely sympathetic elegance: What if home is something that you make rather than what you are given...
...Written with a soaring yet impeccably balanced lyricism, Roy's prose does not hit a single wrong note. Here, for example, is the stasis at the very heart of the tumult that is love: "The rushes had stopped nodding, the breeze had stopped blowing through our hair, the stream had stopped flowing, the curdled clouds had stopped drifting overhead, the bird had stopped its call, the two children on the opposite bank had frozen in mid-gesture...
...Public Enemy Number One, Part 1 Directed by Jean-Francois Richet. Screenplay by Abdel Raouf Dafri, from the book L'Instinct de mort by Jacques Mesrine. With Vincent Cassel, Cécile de France, Gérard Depardieu, Roy Dupuis. From France...
...they do not see individuals in terms of race, color, religion, gender or any of the categories that divide us. Can they look beyond issues like tax, health care and Iraq and show that the U.S. is a democracy in reality, not just theory? The world is watching. S. Roy Chowdhury, Auckland...