Books posted by Sandra Devassy on Clankart for Sale
When breath becomes air
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live.When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity – the brain – and finally into a patient and a new father.What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when when life is catastrophically interrupted? What does it mean to have a child as your own life fades away?Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.Source: penguin.co.uk
The God of small things
Compared favorably to the works of Faulkner and Dickens, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel is a modern classic that has been read and loved worldwide. Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969. The seven-year-old twins Estha and Rahel see their world shaken irrevokably by the arrival of their beautiful young cousin, Sophie. It is an event that will lead to an illicit liaison and tragedies accidental and intentional, exposing “big things [that] lurk unsaid” in a country drifting dangerously toward unrest. Lush, lyrical, and unnerving, The God of Small Things is an award-winning landmark that started for its author an esteemed career of fiction and political commentary that continues unabated.
Oru Police Surgeonte Ormakurippukal
കേരളത്തെ ഞെട്ടിച്ച കൂറെ അസാധാരണ കൊലപാതകങ്ങളുടെ അന്വേഷണ പരമ്പരകളിലൂടെ കുറ്റാന്വേഷണ ശാസ്ത്രത്തെ പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന പുസ്തകം.മനുഷ്യമരണങ്ങളില് കൊലപാതകമോ ആത്മഹത്യയോ നടന്നുകഴിഞ്ഞാണ് സമൂഹവും നീതിപീഠവും അതിന്റെ കാരണം അന്വേഷിക്കുന്നത്. ശവശരീരത്തില് നിന്ന് ആ അന്വേഷണം തുടങ്ങുന്നു. കാരണം ഒരോ മൃതശരീരവും അതിന്റെ മരണകാരണം നിശ്ശബ്ദമായി അന്വേഷകരോട് സംസാരിക്കുന്നു.കുറ്റാന്വേഷണ ശാസ്ത്രത്തെയും കുറ്റവാളികളുടെ മനഃശാസ്ത്രത്തെയും മനസ്സിലാക്കിത്തരുന്ന അതുല്യഗ്രന്ഥം.
Becoming - Michelle Obama
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States.In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African-American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare.In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.
