![]() ![]() ![]() There are examples of those who have faced extraordinary challenges in older age, fascinating facts to interest a reluctant partner and innovative ideas drizzled, of course, with a large dollop of humour. Not only does it set out to provide laughs, but offers over 700 ideas and ways to keep a Grumpy Old Man occupied.įrom collecting airline sick bags to zorbing, you will be sure to find an absorbing pastime for your beloved curmudgeon. This light hearted guide is packed full of lively ideas, anecdotes and quips. Is your Grumpy Old Man getting under your feet? Is he wrestling with retirement? Are you wondering if you should bundle him up and entrust him to basket-weaving classes? Then this book could be the answer to your prayers. Before you push your Grumpy off the next bridge, look no further! ![]()
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![]() Washed up on the wintry English coast, salvaged by an aged widow, who is imaginatively reliving her early married life on the Argentine pampas, the survivors feel themselves to be ''born again'' in some sense yet to unfold. With poetic license (and poetic justice) is about to be transformed by forces beyond his control. He is an ardent Anglophile, a self-created man, who, ![]() Gibreel is a celebrated face and figure of the Indian cinema, star of the genre films known as ''theologicals.''Ĭhamcha is a star of the dubbing trade on British radio and television, a man of a thousand and one voices, none of them his own. Rushdie's work, where each act of naming is dense with implication.Īnd the name ''Bostan'' might prompt us to ask, isn't this precisely what the fabled Oriental garden has become in our day - a terrorized, disintegrating jumbo jet?įalling slowly over the English Channel, the sole survivors are a strange twosome: Gibreel Farishta and Saladin Chamcha. ![]() Persian poet Sadi, proclaiming the virtues of justice, benevolence, self-restraint, gratitude, penitence and so on. The plane is named Bostan, which is both a Farsi word for garden and the title of the great didactic poem by the 13th-century Verses,'' with a scene of human figures tumbling from the debris of a hijacked jumbo jetliner. MOJTABAIĪlman Rushdie, author most famously of ''Midnight's Children,'' opens his fourth and latest novel, ''Satanic ![]() ![]() On the basis of the cover given, one could be excused, I believe, for expecting a fluffy and amusing romance, not a tale of heavily armed men having shoot-outs in swamps. I actually attempted to discover if this was because the book was being pushed in two markets, but as near as I can tell, it has only ever been published with the cover you see. Crusie co-writes this one with Bob Mayer, who may write a decent manly-men with manly-weapons adventure book, (on which subject, remind me later to mention the one point of I-believe-unintentional hilarious homoerotic innuendo) but whose ability at writing a fluffy romance hovers at slightly above zero. ![]() This book's main problem is that it is actually two decent books with the exact same plot, cut up and interleaved to produce one rather mediocre book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Walter Rodney was one of the major Pan-Africanists and historians of the 20th century. Africa Update joins committed scholars like Hirji and Angela Davis (who wrote the race-class-gender based preface to the 2018 edition of the book by Verso Press) to appreciate the contributions of Walter Rodney. He argues that the main work of Walter Rodney, ‘a pre-eminent, paradigm-shifting text,’ remains as relevant for Africa today as it was when it was first published in 1972. Hirji, a retired Professor of Medical Statistics and Fellow of the Tanzania Academy of Sciences has published The Enduring Relevance of How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. With a view to countering misperceptions and explaining Rodney’s ideas, Karim F. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies ![]() ![]() Guest Editor (Special Edition of Africa Update) Nigel Westmaas: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa and the contemporary relevance of Walter Rodney Kimani Nehusi: Forty-seven Years After: Understanding and Updating Walter Rodney How Europe Underdeveloped Africa: A Tribute to Walter Rodneyīiko Agozino, Rethinking Education for Underdevelopment and Education for Development in Africa ![]() |