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The Startup Wife
A quirky, funny, deeply intelligent story of love, big dreams, starting up and feminist geekdom, called 'radiant' by Monica Ali, 'brilliant' by Emma Gannon, 'beautifully written' by Mail on Sunday
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The Startup Wife
“A whip-smart, funny, and searing look at the wild world of startups.” —Good Morning America Book Club Buzz Pick Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR In this “wise and wickedly funny novel about love, creativity, and the limitations of the tech-verse” (Vogue) newlyweds Asha and Cyrus find themselves running one of the most popular social media platforms in the world.Meet Asha Ray. Brilliant coder and possessor of a Pi tattoo, Asha is poised to make a scientific breakthrough when she is reunited with her high school crush, Cyrus Jones. Before she knows it, Asha has abandoned her lab, exchanged vows with Cyrus, and gone to work at an exclusive tech incubator called Utopia to develop an app called WAI—“We are Infinite.” WAI creates a sensation, with millions of users logging on every day. Will Cyrus and Asha’s marriage survive the pressures of sudden fame, or will she become overshadowed by the man everyone is calling the new messiah? This “scathing—and hilarious—take on startup culture, marriage and workaholism” (Politico) explores whether or not technology—with all its limits and possibilities—can disrupt modern love.
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The Startup Wife
A quirky, funny, deeply intelligent story of love, big dreams, starting up and feminist geekdom
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A Golden Age
Spring, 1971, East Pakistan. Rehana Haque is throwing a party for her beloved children, Sohail and Maya. Her young family is growing up fast, and Rehana wants to remember this day forever. But out on the hot city streets, something violent is brewing. As the civil war develops, a war which will eventually see the birth of Bangladesh, Rehana struggles to keep her children safe and finds herself facing a heartbreaking dilemma.
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The Bones of Grace
On the eve of her departure to find the bones of the walking whale—the fossil that provides a missing link in our evolution—Zubaida Haque falls in love with Elijah Strong, a man she meets in a darkened concert hall in Boston. Their connection is immediate and intense, despite their differences: Elijah belongs to a prototypical American family; Zubaida is the adopted daughter of a wealthy Bangladeshi family in Dhaka. When a twist of fate sends her back to her hometown, the inevitable force of society compels her to take a very different path: she marries her childhood best friend and settles into a traditional Bangladeshi life. While her family is pleased by her obedience, Zubaida seethes with discontent. Desperate to finally free herself from her familial constraints, she moves to Chittagong to work on a documentary film about the infamous beaches where decommissioned ships are destroyed, their remains salvaged by locals who depend on the goods for their survival. Among them is Anwar, a ship-breaker whose story holds a key that will unlock the mysteries of Zubaida’s past—and the possibilities of a new life.
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The Bones of Grace
Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and the dark horrors of a ship-breaking yard. Here - deep inside a beached ocean liner, steeped in mystery and tragedy - lies the key to her story. And a lifeline to the man she loves, but whose heart she may never win back.Echoing with loneliness and longing, The Bones of Grace is a story of lost love and conflicted identity; of the urgent need to discover who we are, before we can truly belong anywhere and truly love anyone.
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Il suono del respiro e della preghiera
Bangladesh, 1984. Maya preme il viso contro il finestrino del vecchio treno sbuffante. Il binario della stazione di Dacca è invaso dalle urla dei ragazzini che vendono bibite fresche. Sono passati anni dalla fine della guerra d'indipendenza dal Pakistan. Anni in cui Maya ha lottato per la sua terra, salvando centinaia di vite in un piccolo ospedale di campagna. Adesso il paese è dominato da una dittatura e la parola d'ordine è dimenticare: tutti fingono che niente sia successo e che il sangue di migliaia di vittime innocenti non ha impregnato la polvere delle strade. Eppure Maya non riesce a togliersi dalla mente l'odore della rabbia e dei libri incendiati. Ma ora che sua cognata è morta è venuto il momento di tornare nella casa della sua infanzia. È il suo posto anche se tutto è diverso. Sohail, suo fratello, è un estraneo per lei. Ha bruciato tutti i suoi libri tranne il Corano, è diventato un fanatico e ha iniziato a predicare, seguito da folle di credenti che lo venerano come un musulmano esemplare. Ma dietro le sbarre della prigione spirituale che suo fratello ha costruito nella loro casa, Maya vede risplendere due tristi occhi grigi. Sono quelli del piccolo Zaid, figlio di Sohail, che cresce abbandonato a se stesso, privo di cure, amore e di qualsiasi tipo di educazione, proibiti dal fanatismo religioso del padre. Per salvarlo, Maya deve trovare la forza di ribellarsi e tornare a lottare per una libertà che adesso sembra solo un ricordo troppo lontano.
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Good Muslim, The
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year In the dying days of a brutal civil war in Bangladesh, Sohail Haque stumbles upon an abandoned building. Inside he finds a young woman whose story will haunt him for a lifetime to come. Almost a decade later, Sohail's sister, Maya, returns home after a long absence to find her beloved brother transformed. While Maya has stuck to her revolutionary ideals, Sohail has shunned his old life to become a charismatic religious leader. And when Sohail decides to send his son to a madrasa, the conflict between brother and sister comes to a devastating climax. The Good Muslim is an epic story about faith, family, the rise of religious fundamentalism, and the long shadow of war from prizewinning Bangladeshi novelist Tahmima Anam.
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The Good Muslim
One of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists.After years away from her family, Maya Haque is on the journey home to Dhaka. But what if, as Maya discovers, everything you once knew has changed beyond recognition? What if you must re-learn what it means to be a good daughter? And how do you begin to understand a brother who has taken a path so different from your own? Maya faces these questions and many more in The Good Muslim, an extraordinary novel about faith, family and the long shadow of war.
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A Golden Age
"Spellbinding . . . . Anam has written a story about powerful events. But it is her descriptions of the small, unheralded moments . . . that truly touch the heart." --San Francisco ChronicleTahmima Anam's deeply moving debut novel about a mother's all-consuming love for her two children, set against the backdrop of war and terror, has led critics to comparisons with The English Patient and A Thousand Splendid Suns.Rehana Haque, a young widow transplanted to the city of Dhaka in East Pakistan, is fiercely devoted to her adolescent children, Maya and Sohail. Both become fervent nationalists in the violent political turmoil which, in 1971, transforms a brutal Pakistani civil war into a fight to the death for Bangladeshi independence. Fair-minded and intensely protective of her family, but not at all political, Rehana is sucked into the conflict in spite of herself. A story of passion and revolution, of family, friendship and unexpected heroism, A Golden Age depicts the chaos of an era and the choices everyone--from student protesters to the country's leaders, and rickshaw wallahs to the army's soldiers--must make. Rehana herself will face a cruel dilemma; the choice she makes is at once heartbreaking and true to the character we have come to love and respect.
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The Startup Wife
€ 24,95