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Nobody can accuse Mo Yan of thinking small. In dozens of stories and novels, he has tackled China's tumultuous past century with a mix of magical realism and sharp-eyed satire that has made him one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers. His Red Sorghum was turned into a prizewinning 1987 movie by director Zhang Yimou and picked by Chinese readers in a 1996 poll as their favorite novel. Mo Yan's Northeast Gaomi County, a fictional realm based on his hardscrabble hometown in the eastern province of Shandong, is as vivid...
After graduating from Harvard last spring, Ruggiero did not go straight to post-collegiate hockey, but decided instead to enter the working sector. After accepting a job with the commercial real estate firm Meredith and Grew, Inc., Ruggiero kept her hockey skills sharp by occasionally practicing with the Crimson...
...Mehta's life certainly has the raw material for a great novel: a stark mix of cruelty and grace and the sharp demarcation of light and darkness common to fairy tales. As a boy he is struck blind by meningitis; when he is 13, his country is divided and his family, finding itself in Pakistan, is forced to leave Lahore for India and to start over again. A special program for blind children sends him to America; there, a wealthy woman becomes his patron and sponsors his studies. Mehta's calm, unhurried prose captures the fable-like events...
...meet was a good way for us to stay sharp for the upcoming Harvard-Yale-Princeton [event], which we need to attack with the same intensity that we will bring to Heptagonals,” senior Tekky Andrew-Jaja said...
...deserved counterpoint to the irritating Bridget Jones franchise. Imagine Bridget on amphetamines and you have a fair idea of Gemma Bovery. The characterizations of Gemma as a rudderless yuppie, Charlie as the befuddled schlub, various French and English twits and even Joubert, the largely sympathetic baker/narrator are all razor sharp satires that always have enough humanity to keep them from becoming two-dimensional...