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Gifted - Nikita Lalwani
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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... show more
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. India infuses her with a romantic sense of belonging and, as she grows older, and desire becomes a dirty word in the Vasi household, the idea of love is opened up to painful examination.

In a voice that is by turns very funny and fiercely tender, Nikita Lalwani brings us a captivating story of high aspirations and deep longing, and of the sometime loneliness of childhood.  

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Format: papier
ISBN: 9780141030395
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 280
Edition language: English
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Vera
Vera rated it
I liked Rumi and I liked the way the story unfolded, as she matured and realised that it was more than that she was unhappy, but that she had to stop trying to fulfil her father's crushing dreams and live her own life.
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4.0 Gifted
I didn’t get inside the head of the main character as much as I might have wished. The author did better getting inside the head of the parents of the main character, especially the mother. The main character is prodded and pushed, scheduled and organized, from the time she enters school by her pare...
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