![]() ![]() ![]() Inevitably, with so many cast members to be explored, some characters end up more fully formed than others, and (as with David Shafer’s politically sympathetic 2015 caper Whiskey Tango Foxtrot), it’s the women who come off worst. There is no question of these people not meeting: the geometry of the novel dictates it. Less pleasingly, the neatness with which the characters are arranged saps some of the tension. ![]() The overlapping voices like whispers of other realms – come in London, Paris, France.” The book achieves the same effect, a wave-scanning flicker through the characters’ skulls. “It was like a radio dial between stations,” thinks Victor as he is swept into the crowd with its disparate demands, “the way they chanted and cried. Where Yapa succeeds is in evoking the interconnectedness that the antiglobalisation movement both responded to and attempted to transcend. Only one character – Dr Charles Wickramshaw, the Sri Lankan envoy to the WTO negotiations – exists outside this loop, his efforts to reach his meetings frustrated by the crowd that claims to speak for his country. One of the key protest tactics described in the book is the formation of immovable human circles by locking wrists together inside sleeves of tubing, and the relationships connecting the characters form a closed circle too. ![]()
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From the bestselling author of But What if We’re Wrong, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "In three days of counter-offensive activity, the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Bakhmut sector have liberated 17.3 sq. ![]() The setback for Russia, which follows similar reports of Ukrainian advances south of the city, suggests a coordinated push by Kyiv to encircle Russian forces in Bakhmut, Moscow's main objective for months during the war's bloodiest fighting. 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With a young sister herself, the stakes are high for Lexi and she needs to get to the bottom of this mystery. Wispy and ghostlike he appears right when the children of Near start disappearing from their beds. ![]() ![]() When a stranger comes to town, a stranger that may not even really be there at all. In a land where witches are real and walk among villagers, the town of Near has a new mystery on their hands. ![]() ![]() ![]() She agrees to take her place beside Dasharath’s two other wives if he promises that it will be her son who will ascend to the throne. Who wants to be a woman?” Soon it's time for her to marry, and her father, who rarely speaks to her, demands she wed the childless Dasharath, king of Kosala, who lives far away in the city of Ayodhya. We feel her pain when her twin brother, Yudhajit, tells her she's more a brother than a sister to him: “Don’t take offense. 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