Blogs in January 1970

Stone in a Landslide 1st January 1970

The beginning of the 20th century: 13-year-old Conxa has to leave her home village in the Pyrenees to work for her childless aunt. After years of hard labour, she finds love with Jaume – a love that will be...

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The Elephanta Suite 1st January 1970

The Elephanta Suite brilliantly explores the shifting stories of those who come to India in search of that elusive something – and of how they react when the country and people they encounter are altogether foreign to their expectations....

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Spilt Milk 1st January 1970

Centenarian Eulalio Assumpcao has reached the end of his long life. From his modest bed in a Rio public hospital, as his mind falters, he grandly recounts his past to passing nurses, his visiting daughter and the whitewashed ceiling....

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Magda 1st January 1970

The Observer’s Books of the Year Shortlisted for the Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize, and featured on BBC Radio 4 – Woman’s Hour Unloved sons turn their aggression on the outside world. Unloved daughters destroy the people they love,...

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The Reluctant Fundamentalist 1st January 1970

The setting is Anarkali a district in Lahore, Pakistan. The Reluctant Fundamentalist is Mohsin Hamid’s thrillingly provocative international bestseller,shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007. ‘Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I...

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