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...City of Djinns.” In 1984, when Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards after ordering a raid on the religion’s holiest shrine to evict the militants holing up there, the citizens of Delhi formed mobs and the violence ended with several thousand Sikhs dead...
...book, and when my patients would come in to visit me, more out of a sense of getting a book signed than getting their diabetes treated, I started to see the writing on the wall." He was wise to hang up his stethoscope. In 2007, his second novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, also hit number one, and has just appeared in paperback. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs sat down with Hosseini to discuss his work and his native country...
...come to write A Thousand Splendid Suns? I was finishing up The Kite Runner, which had turned out to be a novel about men - the lives of men, fatherhood, brotherhood, and so on. Even as I was finishing the editing of that book, I had decided that I had to write a second book and address the issues pertaining to women. So I put that idea on the back burner and just kind of let it simmer. I went to Afghanistan in the spring of 2003, and I met with people who worked for nongovernmental organizations, people who worked...
...shirks responsibility. Jackman’s drover is such a one-dimensional character that his name is simply “Drover.” Along with a young, half-Aboriginal, half-white boy named Nullah (Brandon Walters), Lady Ashley puts together a ragtag team to drive a thousand cattle from her ranch to the city of Darwin to outmaneuver King Carney.Sound like fun? Well, there’s even more to this nearly three-hour-long movie. Obviously Drover and Lady Ashley fall in love and then get torn apart, only to end up together again, but there?...
...thousand years, venice's fate has been inextricably tied to water: the city famous for its canals is even shaped like a fish, with an imposing tail bifurcating at the Isola di San Pietro. Over the centuries, the Venetians' empire-building navies gave them grandiose reason to stage an annual Marriage with the Sea--the doge on board a gilded galley flinging a ring into the lagoon in mythic matrimony. Last week, however, the sea wanted more than a ring: the Adriatic appeared to be reeling in all of Venice itself, grabbing at it with the worst floods La Serenissima...