Word: novelizations
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...crafted more than a dozen sculptures, busts and bas-reliefs of black activists and leaders such as A. Philip Randolph, George Washington Carver and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Perhaps her best-known creation was a 13-ft. (4 m) bronze sculpture of Alex Haley, author of the 1976 novel Roots. Allen's art, displayed in public spaces across the country, continues to honor African-American leaders...
Anuradha Roy, a publisher based mostly in New Delhi, sets her first novel, An Atlas of Impossible Longing, during the Indian subcontinent's most momentous years. Between 1907, when the novel opens, and its conclusion circa 1956, the subcontinent saw the struggle for independence and tragedy of partition. But these impinge on Roy's tale of private lives subtly, almost as noises offstage - for the novel is above all a love story...
...opens with a first-person voice describing a sepia photograph. This voice then disappears from the novel until, in the final part of the book, it breathtakingly reclaims the narrative: "I am Mukunda. This is my story." Much of the book is organized in this cyclical...
...well as an epic romance, this is a story of homes, homelessness and what it means to be an outsider. In several instances in the novel, the ownership or loss of home and property opens the way for events of crucial emotional significance. "Home is where one starts from," wrote T.S. Eliot. But Roy's novel upends that idea with infinitely sympathetic elegance: What if home is something that you make rather than what you are given...
...There is a quality to this book that is often absent from the contemporary novel. Let's call it grace...