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The book continued to receive acclaim among many critics lists. According to The Greatest Books, a site that aggregates book lists, it is "The 867th greatest book of all time". [12] The book won the 2004 Man Booker Prize. [13] [14] In 2019, the novel was ranked 38th on The Guardian's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. [15]
The protagonist of the story, a 12-year-old boy named Jonas, is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the memories of the time before Sameness. Jonas struggles with concepts of the new emotions and things introduced to him, and whether they are inherently good, evil, or in between, and whether it is ...
Others have dismissed the book on grounds that Booker is too rigid in fitting works of art to the plot types above. For example, novelist and literary critic Adam Mars-Jones wrote, "[Booker] sets up criteria for art, and ends up condemning Rigoletto , The Cherry Orchard , Wagner , Proust , Joyce , Kafka and Lawrence —the list goes on—while ...
The Shadow Lines (1988) is a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel [1] by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.It is a book that captures perspective of time and events, of lines that bring people together and hold them apart; lines that are clearly visible from one perspective and nonexistent from another; lines that exist in the memory of one, and therefore in another's imagination.
The book follows fourteen-year-old Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as "Junior," living with his family on the Spokane Indian Reservation near Wellpinit, Washington. The book is an epistolary and chronicles Junior's life from the start of the school year to the beginning of summer. It includes both Junior's written record of his life and his ...
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Link Williams—Abbie's adopted son, twenty-six years old during the novel's present-day action. Link majored in history at Dartmouth but has been working in The Last Chance (a bar in The Narrows) since graduation, much to Abbie's disappointment. Malcolm Powther—Abbie's boarder, also the butler at the Treadway estate. He is a neat, little man ...
Anand's book was generally well received. Canadian book reviewer Barb Minett writes in Bookshelf, "Its strange beauty embodies human frailties and resilience." [4] Andreae Callanan in Canadian Notes and Queries commented, "This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart is intimate, elegant, and audacious in its fundamental question of where our stories begin and end."