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...happens to the best of us. You read a novel, bash it in The London Review of Books, and then, a year later, you meet the author. Awkward...
...Imaginary friends are often seen as a symptom of some illness or malaise, and maybe sometimes they are," says author Ben Rice, whose 2000 novel, Pobby and Dingan, is based on his wife's childhood fantasy companions. "But I think sometimes they are just a creative outlet, a way of interpreting the world...
...Rice's novel is about a child, Kellyanne, whose two imaginary friends are lost. Set in a mining town in the Australian outback, Pobby and Dingan features characters who are all looking for things--missing friends, a mother lode of gems--that seem impossible to find. A movie version of the novel was filmed last year, and producer Lizie Gower says that by the end of the shoot, the imaginary characters had taken on a life of their own. Crew members set places for them at the table and bought them lollipops. The 11-year-old actress who plays Kellyanne...
...Mehta's life certainly has the raw material for a great novel: a stark mix of cruelty and grace and the sharp demarcation of light and darkness common to fairy tales. As a boy he is struck blind by meningitis; when he is 13, his country is divided and his family, finding itself in Pakistan, is forced to leave Lahore for India and to start over again. A special program for blind children sends him to America; there, a wealthy woman becomes his patron and sponsors his studies. Mehta's calm, unhurried prose captures the fable-like events...
...DIED. EPHRAIM KISHON, 80, Hungarian Holocaust survivor and satirist whose novels sold more than 43 million copies in 37 languages; in Switzerland. After surviving the Nazi death camps, Kishon fled to Israel, where he wrote news columns, novels, plays and films. Although he never found a wide audience in the English-speaking world, his works were widely read in Europe and Israel; his 1980 novel, Sefer Mishpahti, is the best-selling book in Hebrew after the Bible. Kishon appreciated the irony of his success in post-war Germany: "It is a great satisfaction for me to see the grandchildren...