Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatizes her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and mem…
Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne, and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" is the complete and official playscript of the original, award-winning West End production. This updated edition includes the final dialogue and stage directions, a conversation piece between director John Tiffany and playwright Jack Thorne, the Potter fa…
This engaging series of childhood recollections tells about an ideal school in Tokyo during World War II that combined learning with fun, freedom, and love. This unusual school had old railroad cars for classrooms, and it was run by an extraordinary man--its founder and headmaster, Sosaku Kobayashi--who was a firm believer in freedom of expression and activity.
y, it centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society.[2][3] Orwell, a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian state in the novel on the Soviet Union in the era of Stalinism, and Nazi Germany.[2][3][4] More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within societies and the ways in which…
details the psychological journey of a man during the turbulent period of the mass uprisings of 1969, just prior to Bangladeshi independence in 1971. This novel also contains what is arguably the most authentic description of life in Puran Dhaka, the old and distinctive part of Dhaka.
গাভী বিত্তান্ত বাংলাদেশের প্রখ্যাত চিন্তাবিদ ও লেখক আহমদ ছফা রচিত একটি বাস্তবিক গভীর পর্যবেক্ষণে রচিত উপন্যাস। উপন্যাসটি ১৯৯৫ খ্রিস্টাব্দে ঢাকা থ…
প্রদোষে প্রাকৃতজন বাংলাদেশের স্বনামধন্য ঔপন্যাসিক শওকত আলী রচিত একটি বাংলা ভাষার ঐতিহাসিক উপন্যাস। উপন্যাসটি ১৯৮৪ সালে প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয় দি ইউনি…
It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of …