Gifted

Informationen zum Autor Nikita Lalwani was born in Rajasthan and raised in Cardiff. She has written two novels previously, Gifted and The Village. Her first novel Gifted was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Desmond Elliott Prize. She was also nominated for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. She lives in London. Klappentext Nikita Lalwani was born in Rajasthan and raised in Cardiff. She has written two novels previously, Gifted and The Village. Her first novel Gifted was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Desmond Elliott Prize. She was also nominated for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year award. She lives in London. Zusammenfassung Cardiff in the 1980s is a place where maths can get you noticed. Rumis Vasi is the town's 'maths prodigy': untangling numbers and Rubik's Cubes protects her from the harsh vagaries of the playground and gives a pattern to her world. But after years of her father's determined tutoring, Rumi finds that numbers are beginning to lose their innocence.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nikita Lalwani, Lalwani Nikita, Lalwani Nikita
• Editore: Penguin Books Uk
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.05.2008
• EAN: 9780141030395
• ISBN: 978-0-14-103039-5
• Pagine: 288
• Dimensioni: 130 mm x 198 mm x 18 mm
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; India, Family life fiction, Sociology: family & relationships, Literary essays, Fiction: general and literary, Maths for scientists