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...Several years ago, two Vietnamese journalists asked Dung to tell his story. Over months of interviews, the tale of a confused young man took shape, chronicling affairs gone bad and his mother's disappointment with him on her deathbed...
...with you, you don't initiate trade negotiations--you unleash the Force on his puny, goody-good Jedi ass. You shock him, you boomerang your light saber at him, you grab him by the midi-chlorians and chuck him off a cliff. It's an authentically dark Star Wars tale and the perfect antidote to years of Ewok-flavored cuteness...
...Daisies' fairy-tale story is so unlike anything else on TV that it seems new even a year later. Unveiling one dazzling image after another (Chuck is a beekeeper, and when her colony fails, she pours a bucket of bees over Ned; they return to life in a shower of sparks), Daisies has a timeless, picture-book look. It could be set today, in the '30s, in the '70s or in any other decade fond of saturated color. Like Chuck herself, it's a perfect candidate for a second chance: as glowing and lovable as the day we first...
...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...
...tale begins in the town of Songarh, where factory owner Amulya rescues Mukunda, the illegitimate baby of an employee's son, and puts him in an orphanage, taking on the responsibility for the boy's upkeep. Meanwhile, Nirmal, Amulya's younger son, legitimately fathers a daughter, Bakul, whose mother dies during childbirth. Mukunda is later brought home from the orphanage to work as a houseboy, and he and Bakul become close childhood companions. The family naturally disapproves and separates them at adolescence, but they reunite in adulthood and become lovers. By that time, everybody's lives have changed irreversibly...