NIKITA LALWANI

Los números siempre han sido fascinados por Rumi: sus matemáticas giftedness es reconocido y promovido. Su familia india exige su rendimiento y disciplina, mientras que Rumi es para el amor y la amistad anhela. Historia de una chica, totalmente deshecho por las presiones de su familia las expectativas. Longlisted para el Premio Man Booker 2007!

Cardiff in the 1980s is a place where maths can get you noticed. Rumis Vasi is the towns maths prodigy: untangling numbers and Rubiks Cubes protects her from the harsh vagaries of the playground and gives a pattern to her world. But after years of her fathers determined tutoring, Rumi finds that numbers are beginning to lose their innocence.

Rumi, hija de inmigrantes indios instalados en Cardiff, tiene un don para las matemáticas. Su vida siempre ha estado rodeada de números y ya desde pequeña sus profesores destacaban su talento. Reacios a llevarla a una escuela para superdotados, sus padres deciden instaurar un estricto régimen de estudio con un único objetivo: que Rumi ingrese en la Universidad de Oxford con tan sólo quince años.

A moving, authentic, humane novel which raises fundamental questions about what it means to be kind in an unkind world Guardian____________________________________________The Pizzeria Vesuvio looks like any other Italian restaurant in London - with a few small differences. The chefs who make the pizza fiorentinas are Sri Lankan, and half the kitchen staff are illegal immigrants. At the centre is Tuli, the restaurants charismatic proprietor and resident Robin Hood, who promises to help anyone in need. Welsh nineteen-year-old Nia, haunted by her troubled past, is running from her family. Shan, having fled the Sri Lankan civil war, is desperate to find his.But when Tulis guidance leads them all into dangerous territory, and the extent of his mysterious operation unravels, each is faced with an impossible moral choice.In a world where the law is against you, how far would you be willing to lie for a chance to live? ____________________________________________Intelligent and heart-piercing - an exceptional novel about the Britain we live in, even if we choose not to see it Kamila Shamsie, author of Home FireAsks tough questions about the nature of goodne