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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Anita and Me
Book SynopsisTanika Gupta has written for theatre, radio, film and television. Aside from the works published by Oberon, her stage plays include Voices On The Wind (NT Studio), Skeleton (Soho Theatre), On The Couch With Enoch (Red Room - BAC) and The Waiting Room (NT) which won the John Whiting Award. She has also translated Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan for the National Theatre Education Touring and written plays for Theatre Royal Stratford East's Young Actor's Company Brood and Squid. Tanika is an Honorary Fellow at Rose Bruford College and was awarded an MBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008 for Services to Drama.Trade ReviewMeera's brilliant novel is a wonderful coming of age story. It's an engaging and funny tale set in a tight knit community about a young girl trying to decide her cultural identity and I look forward immensely to realising it on stage. * Roxana Silbert, Artistic Director of Birmingham Repertory Theatre. *
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HarperCollins Publishers Anita and Me AQA GCSE 91 English Literature Text
Book SynopsisExam Board: AQALevel: GCSE Grade 9-1Subject: English LiteratureSuitable for the 2024 examsEverything you need to revise for your GCSE 9-1 set text in a snap guideEverything you need to score top marks on your GCSE Grade 9-1 English Literature exam is right at your fingertips! Revise Anita and Me by Meera Syal in a snap with this new GCSE Grade 9-1 Snap Revision Text Guide from Collins. Refresh your knowledge of the plot, context, characters and themes and pick up top tips along the way to ace your AQA exam. Each topic is explained in an easy-to-read format so you can get straight to the point. Then, put your skills to the test with plenty of practice questions included in every section. The Snap Text Guides are packed with every quote and extract you need. We've even included examples of how to plan and write your essay responses! This Collins English Literature revision guide contains all the key information you need to practise and pass.
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
Book SynopsisContains a sneak preview of Meera Syal's brand new novel, THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN MOTHERSThere’s no such thing as a happy ending , is there …?Sunita - perfect housewife - is married to Akash, but is her marriage what it seems? Chila - warm, loveable - has married with great fanfare the entrepreneur Deepak. But are they really in love?Tania - beautiful, rebellious - has rejected her traditional upbringing for a top television career. But is she really as tough as she says?As Tania uncovers a devastating truth, are the three friends about to learn the hardest life lesson of all …? MEERA SYAL, CBE, is one of our most acclaimed actors and writers. She starred in the hit series The Kumars at No. 42 and recently in the BBC film of David Walliams' The Boy in the Dress. She is currently in the latest series of Broadchurch Meera Syal is also known for her sharp, provocative fiction. Her debut novel is called Anita and Me. Life isn't all Ha Ha Hee Hee is her second acclaimed novel. Her brand new novel The House of Hidden Mothers is out now.Trade ReviewFunny and sharp. * Independent *A superbly crafted, page turning comedy which isn't afraid to tackle the big subjects...heartfelt, heartwarming and very, very good. * The Mirror *Extremely funny, wonderfully insightful...a big ambitious book with serious points to be made about the choices women face today...Syal mixes her message with hilarious set pieces. * Sunday Express *The story surges along on a rip-tide of wisecracks and wisdom...excellent. * Sunday Telegraph *A magical mosaic of friendship, betrayal and cross-cultural incongruities. By turns spicy, hilarious and sad, it unfolds the ties that bind young women to their East End Punjabi roots even as they head west for trendy careers, café bars and sexual freedom. * She *
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Bodleian Library Great Literary Friendships
Book SynopsisClose friendships are a heart-warming feature of many of our best-loved works of fiction. From Jane Eyre and Helen Burns’ poignant schoolgirl relationship to Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn’s adventures on the Mississippi, fictional friends have supported, guided, comforted, nursed and at times betrayed the heroes and heroines of our popular and influential plays and novels. This book explores twenty-four literary friendships and, together with character studies and publication history, describes how each key relationship influences character, determines plot, promotes or disguises romance, preserves a reputation, sometimes results in betrayal, or underlines the theme of each literary work. It shows how authors from William Shakespeare to Elena Ferrante have by turns celebrated, lamented or transformed friendships throughout the ages, and how some friends – Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Holmes and Watson or even Bridget Jones and pals – have taken on creative lives beyond the bounds of their original narrative. Including a broad scope of literature spanning a period of 400 years from writers as diverse as Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, John Steinbeck and Alice Walker, this book is the ideal gift for your literature-loving friend.Trade Review'A few pages in you feel you are in the company of a sprightly, charming, well-read friend . . . a masterful story-teller, her short essays on pivotal friendships feel like entering sunlight from thick fog, you'll see and hear what you never noticed on first reading.' * Country Life Magazine *Table of ContentsContents Introduction Childhood Soulmates: Jane and Helen - Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847) Liberty and Conformity: Tom and Huck; Huck and Jim - Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) Bosom Pals: Anne and Diana - L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (1908) Competitive Companions: Pooh and Piglet - A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) Mad Bad Girls: Meena and Anita - Meera Syal, Anita and Me (1996) Housemates: Harry, Ron and Hermione - J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter series (1997–2007) Students and Apprentices Prince and Philosopher: Hamlet and Horatio - William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600) Career Advice: Pip and Herbert - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1861) A Bystander’s Elegy: Charles and Sebastian - Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (1945) Crème de la Crème: Sandy, Jenny, Eunice, Mary, Monica, Rose and Miss Brodie - Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) Campus Collusion: Richard, Bunny, Henry, Francis, Camilla and Charles - Donna Tartt, The Secret History (1992) Heart to Heart Inseparable: Rosalind and Celia - William Shakespeare, As You Like It (1599) Reserve and Recklessness: Jane and Emma - Jane Austen, Emma (1815) Light and Shade: Lucy and Maggie - George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860) Three Cheers for the Singletons: Bridget, Shazzer, Jude and Tom - Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary (1996) Adventure Bickering and Bonhomie: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza - Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605) Partners in Crime: Holmes and Watson - Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlock Holmes series (1887–1903) Host and Guest: Ratty and Mole - Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows (1908) Heroes of Middle-earth: Frodo and Sam - J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (1954) Hard Times Loneliest in the World: George and Lennie - John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (1937) Kinship: Okonkwo and Obierika - Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (1958) Amazon Sisters: Miss Celie, Shug and Sofia - Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982) Undercover Allies: Moira and Offred - Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) For Better, For Worse: Lina and Elena - Elena Ferrante, The Neapolitan Novels (2011–2014) Notes Further Reading Acknowledgements Index
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HarperCollins Publishers Anita and Me
Book SynopsisThe debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of ''Bhaji on the Beach''. The story of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village of Tollington.Blonde, sassy and rebellious, Anita Rutter is everything nine-year-old Meena wants to be. Growing up in the only Punjabi family in the village, Meena is desperate to break free from her parents. She wants fishfingers and chips, not chapati and dhal; she wants an English Christmas, not her family's endless Diwali celebrations. And more than anything, she wants Anita to accept her into her gang.But is a friendship with Anita Rutter really everything it seems?A vivid portrait of a British childhood in the 1970s, Anita and Me is a novel rich with humour and compassion a poignant story of immigration, adolescence and belonging.
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HarperCollins Publishers Anita and Me
Book SynopsisThe debut novel from the award-winning screenwriter of Bhaji on the Beach. The story of nine-year-old Meena, growing up in the only Punjabi family in the Black Country mining village of Tollington.It's 1972. Meena is nine years old and lives in the village of Tollington, the jewel of the Black Country'. She is the daughter of Indian parents who have come to England to give her a better life. As one of the few Punjabi inhabitants of her village, her daily struggle for independence is different from most. She wants fishfingers and chips, not chapati and dhal; she wants an English Christmas, not the usual interminable Punjabi festivities but more than anything, she wants to roam the backyards of working-class Tollington with feisty Anita Rutter and her gang.Blonde, cool, aloof, outrageous and sassy, Anita is everything Meena thinks she wants to be. Meena wheedles her way into Anita's life, but the arrival of a baby brother, teenage hormones, impending entrance exams for the posh grammar
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Brill Unreliable Truths: Transcultural Homeworlds in Indian Women’s Fiction of the Diaspora
Book SynopsisWhile many people see ‘home’ as the domestic sphere and place of belonging, it is hard to grasp its manifold implications, and even harder to provide a tidy definition of what it is. Over the past century, discussion of home and nation has been a highly complex matter, with broad political ramifications, including the realignment of nation-states and national boundaries. Against this backdrop, this book suggests that ‘home’ is constructed on the assumption that what it defines is constantly in flux and thus can never capture an objective perspective, an ultimate truth. Along these lines, Unreliable Truths offers a comparative literary approach to the construction of home and concomitant notions of uncertainty and unreliable narration in South Asian diasporic women’s literature from the UK, Australia, South Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Canada. Writers discussed in detail include Feroza Jussawalla, Suneeta Peres da Costa, Meera Syal, Farida Karodia, Shani Mootoo, Shobha Dé, and Oonya Kempadoo. With its focus on transcultural homes, Unreliable Truths goes beyond discussions of diaspora from an established postcolonial point of view and contributes with its investigation of transcultural unreliable narration to the representation of a g/local South Asian diaspora.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Homemaking in a Globalized World Of Social and Imaginary Homeworlds South Asian Homeworlds, Transnational Alliances Common Narrative Ground: Transcultural Narrative Unreliability Homing in on Unreliable Storytelling Fictionalizing South Asian Diasporic Homemaking: Farida Karodia’s Other Secrets & Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night Growing Up in Transcultural Diasporic Worlds: Suneeta Peres da Costa’s Homework, Meera Syal’s Anita and Me, and Shobha Dé’s Strange Obsession Transcultural Disillusionments: Oonya Kempadoo’s Tide Running Conclusion: South Asian Diasporic Writing and the Transcultural Imaginary Works Cited Index
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