TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE – टिअर्स ऑफ द जिराफ
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दहा वर्षांपूर्वी घडलेल्या एका अपघाती मृत्यूसंबंधीची केस–प्रेश्यसच्या आत्तापर्यंतच्या कारकीर्दीतील सर्वांत कठीण, गुंतागुंतीची केस… एक विशीतला अमेरिकन तरुण बोट्स्वानातून अचानक, काहीही मागमूस न ठेवता नाहीसा होतो. सर्व प्रकारे शोध घेऊनही त्याचा ठावठिकाणा लागत नाही. हे समजल्यानंतर पोलीस ती केस कायमची बंद करून टाकतात. प्रेश्यस ती का आणि कशी उलगडते हे वाचूनच पाहायला हवं… व्यावसायिक आघाडीवर यशस्वीपणे, दमदारपणे पुढे जात असताना तिच्या वैयक्तिक जीवनातही काही खळबळजनक घटना घडत असतात… नव्या जबाबदा-या अनपेक्षितपणे अंगावर कोसळत असतात. अर्थात, तिच्या मदतीसाठी दोन हक्काचे हात, नव्हे जीवनभराची साथ तिला लाभणार असते, ती जे. एल. बी. मातेकोनींच्या रूपात… व्यवसायानं मेकॅनिक ! त्यांचा नेहमी संबंध येतो तो निर्जीव गाड्यांशी, त्यातील यंत्रभागांशी, इंजिनांशी! …पण प्रेश्यसमध्ये आणि त्यांच्यात एक मोठं साम्य असते. दोघांच्या हृदयात माणुसकीचा ओलावा आहे… त्यामुळेच कधीकधी ते गोत्यातही येत असतात. प्रेश्यसची व्यावसायिक वाटचाल वाचकांना कधी हसवते, कधी अंतर्मुख करते, तर काही वेळा वाचकांची मनं हेलावून सोडते. गुंतागुंतीच्या केसेसचा उलगडा नेहमीच २±२·४ या पद्धतीनं करता येत नाही. त्यासाठी वेगळ्या अंगानं विचार करावा लागतो. `सापभी मरे और लाठीभी ना टूटे…` अशी हुशारी प्रेश्यस वापरते, तेव्हा तिच्यातील नैतिक सामथ्र्याची, तिच्यावर केल्या गेलेल्या संस्कारांची मनापासून दाद द्यावीशी वाटते. शीर्षकापासूनच या पुस्तकाचं वेगळेपण जाणवतं… ही गोष्ट आहे त्या वेगळ्या स्त्रीची, जिच्यात क्वचित प्रसंगी तुम्हाला तुमचं प्रतिबिंबही दिसेल…
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THE NO.1 LADIES` DETECTIVE AGENCY INTRODUCED THE WORLD TO THE ONE AND ONLY PRECIOUS RAMOTSWE – THE ENGAGING AND SASSY OWNER OF BOTSWANA`S ONLY DETECTIVE AGENCY. TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE, MCCALL SMITH`S SECOND BOOK, TAKES US FURTHER INTO THIS WORLD AS WE FOLLOW MAMA RAMOTSWE INTO MORE DARING SITUATIONS … AMONG HER CASES THIS TIME ARE WAYWARD WIVES, UNSCRUPULOUS MAIDS, AND THE CHALLENGE TO RESOLVE A MOTHER`S PAIN FOR HER SON WHO IS LONG LOST ON THE AFRICAN PLAINS. INDEED, MMA RAMOTSWE`S OWN IMPENDING MARRIAGE TO THE MOST GENTLEMANLY OF MEN, MR J.L.B. MATEKONI, THE PROMOTION OF MMA`S SECRETARY TO THE DIZZY HEIGHTS OF ASSISTANT DETECTIVE, AND THE ARRIVAL OF NEW MEMBERS TO THE MATEKONI FAMILY, ALL BREW UP THE MOST HUMOROUS AND CHARMINGLY ENTERTAINING OF TALES. * TEARS OF THE GIRAFFE WAS SELECTED AS ONE OF THE GUARDIAN`S TOP TEN
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ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH
Birth Date : 24/08/1948
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH, OFTEN REFERRED TO AS ‘SANDY’, IS ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST PROLIFIC AND BEST-LOVED AUTHORS. FOR MANY YEARS HE WAS A PROFESSOR OF MEDICAL LAW AND WORKED IN UNIVERSITIES IN THE UK AND ABROAD BEFORE TURNING HIS HAND TO WRITING FICTION. HE HAS WRITTEN AND CONTRIBUTED TO MORE THAN 100 BOOKS INCLUDING SPECIALIST ACADEMIC TITLES, SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS, AND A NUMBER OF IMMENSELY POPULAR CHILDREN’S BOOKS. HIS FIRST BOOK, THE WHITE HIPPO—A CHILDREN’S BOOK, WAS PUBLISHED BY HAMISH HAMILTON IN 1980. BUT IT WASN’T UNTIL THE PUBLICATION OF THE HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY SERIES THAT ALEXANDER BECAME A HOUSEHOLD NAME. THE SERIES HAS NOW SOLD OVER TWENTY MILLION COPIES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ALONE, AND SINCE THE BOOKS TOOK OFF, HE HAS DEVOTED HIS TIME TO WRITING. HIS VARIOUS SERIES OF BOOKS HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED INTO FORTY-SIX LANGUAGES AND BECOME BESTSELLERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. THESE INCLUDE THE POPULAR 44 SCOTLAND STREET NOVELS, FIRST PUBLISHED AS A SERIAL NOVEL IN THE SCOTSMAN NEWSPAPER AND NOW THE LONGEST-RUNNING SERIAL NOVEL IN THE WORLD; THE ISABEL DALHOUSIE NOVELS, AND THE VON IGELFELD SERIES. HE IS ALSO THE AUTHOR OF THE CORDUROY MANSIONS SERIES, WHICH STARTED LIFE AS AN ENGAGING CROSS-MEDIA SERIAL WRITTEN FOR THE TELEGRAPH ONLINE. IN ADDITION TO THESE SERIES, ALEXANDER HAS WRITTEN A NUMBER OF STAND-ALONE NOVELS, INCLUDING , THE GOOD PILOT PETER WOODHOUSE, MY ITALIAN BULLDOZER, FATTY O’LEARY’S DINNER PARTY AND CHANCE DEVELOPMENTS. EARLIER STAND ALONE BOOKS INCLUDE TRAINS AND LOVERS: A HEART’S JOURNEY; THE FOREVER GIRL; LA’S ORCHESTRA SAVES THE WORLD; AND EMMA—A REWORKING OF THE CLASSIC JANE AUSTEN NOVEL. HE HAS ALSO AUTHORED MANY NON-FICTION TITLES, THE LATEST OF WHICH ARE A WORK OF BEAUTY: ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH’S EDINBURGH AND WHAT W.H. AUDEN CAN DO FOR YOU. RECENTLY ALEXANDER HAS WRITTEN A NEW CHILDREN’S SERIES—THE SCHOOL SHIP TOBERMORY—THE FIRST OF WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN 2015, WITH THE SECOND, THE SANDS OF SHARK ISLAND, PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER 2016. THIS INCREASES THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS HE HAS WRITTEN TO MORE THAN THIRTY. ALEXANDER HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS AWARDS FOR HIS WRITING AND HOLDS TWELVE HONORARY DOCTORATES FROM UNIVERSITIES IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA. IN 2007 HE RECEIVED A CBE FOR SERVICES TO LITERATURE AND IN 2011 WAS HONOURED BY THE PRESIDENT OF BOTSWANA FOR SERVICES THROUGH LITERATURE TO THE COUNTRY. IN 2015 HE RECEIVED THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION AND IN 2017, THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB (OF AMERICA) MEDAL OF HONOR FOR ACHIEVEMENT IN LITERATURE.
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