Gifted

Lalwani Nikita, Nikita Lalwani (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

288 Seiten

2007
Viking (Verlag)
978-0-670-91713-6 (ISBN)

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Rumi Vashey is ten years, two months, thirteen days, two hours, forty-two minutes and six seconds old. The probability of her walking home from school with John Kemble is 0.2142, a probability severely reduced by the lacy frock and thick woollen tights she is forced to wear by her father. For Rumi is a gifted child and, as her father sees it, discipline is everything if the family is to have any hope of making its mark on its adoptive country. But Rumi is growing up and numbers no longer occupy her every waking moment: she abandons her homework to seek out friendship and replaces equations with stories from Malory Towers. And, as the pressure at home intensifies, so too does Rumi's desire for love.

Nikita Lalwani’s debut captures brilliantly the battle to come of age in an emotional and comic hinterland, where history, arithmetic and cumin seeds all play a part.

Nikita Lalwani was born in Kota, Rajasthan in 1973 and raised in Cardiff. After several years of directing factual television and documentaries at the BBC, she has returned to writing fiction. Gifted is her first novel. She lives in London.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.6.2007
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	446 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
ISBN-10	0-670-91713-3 / 0670917133
ISBN-13	978-0-670-91713-6 / 9780670917136
Zustand	Neuware