On the centennial year of Samuel Beckett's birth, Auster's new novel nods to the old master. We open with a man sitting in a room. The man doesn't remember his name, and a camera hidden in the ceiling takes a picture of him once a second. The man—whom the third-person narrator calls Mr. Blank—spends the single day spanned by the book being looked after, questioned and reading a fragmentary narrative written by a man named Sigmund Graf from a country called the Confederation who has been given the mission of tracking down a renegade soldier named Ernesto Land.
When ruthless land developers arrange to have Tush Bannon killed, they know he has a wife and three kids, but they don't know that he has a friend named Travis McGee.
Paul Allen, best known as the cofounder of Microsoft, has left his mark on numerous fields, from aviation and science to rock 'n' roll, professional sports, and philanthropy. His passions and curiosity have transformed the way we live. In 2007 and again in 2008, Time named him one of the hundred most influential people in the world.
Claiming anything felted as her universe, British author Johns divides her 21 projects into four categories: fleece (the raw materials combined with a combination water/soap/heat/friction), knitting, crochet, and recycled materials. She prefaces her plethora of patterns with full basic instructions on the materials and tools needed, then immediately launches into the specific how-to’s. Each handbag is named and, more importantly, directions are illustrated with words and, when at a critical junction, with close-up color photographs. Styles are simple and, even when embellished, retain a modern flair,
Sea of Poppies (2008) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2008. It is the first volume of what will be the Ibis trilogy. The main characters include Deeti, an ordinary village woman, a mulatto American sailor named Zachary Reid, an Indian rajah / zamindar called Neel Rattan Halder, and Benjamin Burnham, an evangelist opium trader.
