How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Mohsin Hamid's third novel, confirms that this radically inventive storyteller is among the most important of today's international writers. Stealing its shape from the self-help books devoured by ambitious youths all over “rising Asia,” the novel is genre-bending and playful but also reflective and profound in its portrayal of the thirst for ambition and love in a time of shattering economic and social upheaval. From the best-selling author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia tells the story of an anonymous man's journey from impoverished rural boy to tycoon in an unnamed contemporary city in “rising Asia,” and of his pursuit of the nameless “pretty girl” whose path continually crosses but never quite converges with his.
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The whole UNL-ization process was carried-out manually and the results have been used as the main resource in a natural language generation project involving already 27 languages. The original text comprised 1,684 interpretation units (15,513 words), which were sorted according to their similarity, from the shortest to the longest ones, and which were then projected into a UNL graph structure, composed of semantic directed binary relations linking nodes associated to the synsets of the corresponding original lexical items. Abstract The present paper addresses the process and the results of the interpretation of the integral text of Le Petit Prince (Little Prince), the famous novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from French into UNL. It’s powerfully tense and the writing is spot-on, hitting the marks in places meditative and in others deeply affecting. I’ve never quite read anything like More Than This in a long time, if I ever read one to begin with. Might this not be the end? 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Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, this masterwork recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. A moving, beautifully rendered account."-Fred Kaplan, The Washington Post This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. What other president has written 40 books, hunted lions, founded a third political party, survived an assassin's bullet, and explored an unknown river longer than the Rhine? Packed with more adventure, variety, drama, humor, and tragedy than a big novel, yet documented down to the smallest fact, this masterwork recounts the last decade of perhaps the most amazing life in American history.īook Synopsis NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - "Colonel Roosevelt is compelling reading, and Morris is a brilliant biographer who practices his art at the highest level. About the Book Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased out of office. His country'sĭisgrace has always figured in his work, but, as you might expect from someone who wrote a dissertation on Beckett, it has most often figured obliquely. He has experimented with historical fiction and postmodern pastiche and has even, in the 1983 novel ''Life & Times of Michael K,'' written something like a fable. 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It didn’t surprise me that I was having a hard time getting into the story. I was hesitant to pick this up because it’s written in first person, present tense I’m not much of a fan of either of those. |