Word: orphaned
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...That is in fact a cesspool of randomness and filth? An orderly book, all signal and no noise, would not be a true book. To mirror a broken world, to speak the unspeakable, you need a broken book. That Bolańo should have died and left his book an orphan might even have struck him as appropriate...
...young man named Jamal (Dev Patel) from the slums of Mumbai who’s on the verge of winning India’s version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” when he is arrested under suspicion of cheating. An uneducated orphan working at a telemarketing firm couldn’t possibly get so far on the show, right?As Jamal is brutally interrogated by police officers, flashbacks reveal how he managed to learn the answer to each question on the show, delivering the beautiful, exhilarating story of his life. After Jamal...
...early 40s, had been praised for his conciliatory work in Burundi, which like neighboring Rwanda was torn by ethnic strife between Tutsi and Hutu. The fighting resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Burundians over several decades. A Tutsi himself, Sinduhije adopted a Hutu war orphan. The independent Radio Publique Africaine, which he founded in 2001, hired both Hutu and Tutsi ex-combatants as part of its effort to foster peace...
...version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. The show's host (Anil Kapoor) is so skeptical of Jamal's ability to answer the questions that he has policemen try to torture the truth out of the lad. His explanations all relate to his hard life as a homeless orphan in the company of his brother Salim (Madhur Mittal) and, not often enough, with the winsome, consistently abused Latika (Freida Pinto). Salim is a type-A troublemaker, a fighter and conniver, restless and reckless, and thus the ideal complement to Jamal's caution, sensitivity and resilience. These flashbacks constitute...
...Mercy is not precisely a novel about slavery. When Florens enters Jacob's household, she finds not a rigid caste system based on race but a fluid, funky multicultural arrangement that includes not only Florens but also Jacob's wife, a Native American maid, two indentured servants and an orphan foundling. Their relationships with one another are flexible, and race is just one of any number of things that define them...