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Incomplete Picture - Take with a grain of salt William Dalrymple is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Asiatic Society, and is the founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival. White Mughals was published in 2003, the book won the Wolfson Prize for History 2003, the Scottish Book of the Year Prize, and was shortlisted for the PEN History Award, the Kiryama Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. A collection of his writings about India, The Age of Kali, won the French Prix D’Astrolabe in 2005. From the Holy Mountain, his acclaimed study of the demise of Christianity in its Middle Eastern homeland, was awarded the Scottish Arts Council Autumn Book Award for 1997 it was also shortlisted for the 1998 Thomas Cook Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Duff Cooper Prize. In 1989 Dalrymple moved to Delhi where he lived for six years researching his second book, City of Djinns, which won the 1994 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award and the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award. The book won the 1990 Yorkshire Post Best First Work Award and a Scottish Arts Council Spring Book Award it was also shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. He wrote the highly acclaimed bestseller In Xanadu when he was twenty-two. William Dalrymple was born in Scotland and brought up on the shores of the Firth of Forth. Katherine writes laugh-and-cry books about how life knocks us down-and how we get back up. Read moreīookPage calls Katherine Center “the reigning queen of comfort reads.” She’s the New York Times bestselling author of over half a dozen books, including How to Walk Away, Things You Save in a Fire, and What You Wish For. 'If you read just one book this year, read How to Walk Away' Nina George, author of The Little Paris Bookshop. How to Walk Away by Katherine Center is an uplifting story of learning to live – and love – again. But could it be more than she had ever dared hope for? Maggie’s new life is nothing like she expected. Iain, who won’t let her give in to her despair, who makes her cry, but also manages to make her laugh. Finally there’s Iain, her physical therapist, the one the nurses said was too tough for her. Then there’s her sister Kit, who shows up after pulling a three-year vanishing act. First there is her fiancé, Charlie, wallowing in self-pity while demanding forgiveness. In hospital Maggie is forced to confront the unthinkable. But on what should have been the happiest day of her life, everything she worked for is taken away in a single catastrophic moment. Maggie Jacobsen is just about to step into the bright future she’s worked so hard and so long for: her dream job, a fiancé she adores and the promise of a perfect life just around the corner. If your life fell apart, could you start again? "Magical and powerful, Peach Blossom Spring brings to life the costs of wars and conflicts while illuminating the spirit of human survival.”―Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, author of The Mountains Sing "I so enjoyed this book." -Alisa Chang, NPR's All Things Considered I absolutely adored this novel about love and war, migration and belonging.” -Christy Lefteri, author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo "An accomplished first novel." - New York Times Book Review NOMINATED FOR THE GOODREADS CHOICE "BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR" Spanning continents and generations, Peach Blossom Spring is a bold and moving story about the haunting power of our past, the sacrifices we make to protect our children, and one family's search for a place to call home.Ī BOOK OF THE MONTH CLUB PICK AND NOMINEE FOR "BOOK OF THE YEAR" How can he tell his story when he's left so much behind? Though his daughter, Lily, is desperate to understand her heritage, he refuses to talk about his childhood in China. Years later, Renshu has settled in America as Henry Dao. On the perilous journey that follows, across a China transformed by war, they find comfort and wisdom in their most treasured possession, a beautifully illustrated hand scroll filled with ancient fables. Meilin and her four-year-old son, Renshu, flee their burning city as Japanese forces advance. A "beautifully rendered" novel about war, migration, and the power of telling our stories, Peach Blossom Spring follows three generations of a Chinese family on their search for a place to call home (Georgia Hunter, New York Times bestselling author).Ī country at war. However, they still carry themselves with pride. Annemarie notices that the Rosens look very different from how they did in Copenhagen––dressed in rags, stripped of their jobs and their possessions. Twenty minutes later, Mama will do the same for the Rosens, and so on, until all of the refugees have reached safety. He explains that he will take the first group of people to the harbor, where Henrik will ferry them across to Sweden on a fishing boat. The girl’s mother is upset at this but reluctantly allows Peter to drug her child - they cannot take any risks.Īs everyone gets ready to leave, Peter gives Mr. When Peter sees that there is an infant, he gives the baby girl a few drops of a drug so she won’t cry. Mama solves the problem by giving them Kirsti’s red sweater. One couple has a baby, but there is no infant-sized coat. He explains that they will need the extra layers because it is cold where they are going. He distributes them to the people in the room. Peter opens " Great-Aunt Birte"s coffin, revealing that it is full of coats and blankets. In addition to English, she speaks French (her first language), Arabic, Spanish, and Farsi. The daughter of a Tunisian-born French literature professor and a Swiss-born painter, Jaouad is a lifelong over-achiever. She had become a different sort of war correspondent.īetween Two Kingdoms, Jaouad's searching memoir of her illness and its aftermath, takes its title from an observation in Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor: "Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick." The line between them, Jaouad discovers, is more porous than most people realize. During her "incanceration"-months in isolation to prevent infections-she documented her grueling treatments, first in a blog, then in a weekly column and videos for The New York Times called "Life, Interrupted," which generated an enormous response. Jaouad started writing about what it's like to face a life-threatening illness at 22. She quickly found herself fighting for her life in New York City cancer wards, where she was given a 35 percent chance of survival. Instead, within months, she was diagnosed with a rare form of acute myeloid leukemia. When Suleika Jaouad graduated from Princeton in 2010, she was considering a career as a war correspondent. |