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Gifted : A Novel by Nikita Lalwani, Nikita Lalwani is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In her stunning debut novel, Nikita Lalwani pits a parent’s dream against a child’s, exploring how much can be endured in the name of love.Rumi Vasi is 10 years, 2 months, 13 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes, and 6 seconds old. She’s figured that the likelihood of her walking home from school with the boy she likes, John Kemble, is 0.2142, a probability severely reduced by the lacy dress and thick woollen tights her father forces her to wear. Because Rumi is a gifted child, and her father, Mahesh, believes that strict discipline is the key to nurturing her genius if the family has any hope of making its mark on its adoptive country.“A triumph . . . fluid, original, clever, glitteringly vivid, funny . . . All the conventional pieties and forms of Indian immigrant identity and trauma are so wittily preempted, and yet there’s a sure grasp, at the serious core of the novel, of the deep reverberations of politics and history. I couldn’t bear it when it ended.” – Tessa Hadley, author of The Master BedroomNikita Lalwani Her first novel, 'Gifted' – the story of a child prodigy of Indian origin growing up in Wales – was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the inaugural Desmond

Who reads Gifted : A Novel?

Author

Nikita Lalwani, Nikita Lalwani

Publisher

Random House Publishing Group;Random House Trade Paperbacks

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780141917023

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Peoples & Cultures Fiction