Author:Bapsy Jain
Lately, Lucky's life has seen nothing but trouble. Her marriage to the wealthy and charming Vikram ended badly, and along with it, her career as a successful entrepreneur. It's time for her to start over and Lucky is more than ready to move on.
So Lucky goes to New York where her quest to get her life back on track begins with promise. A voluntary assignment as yoga instructor brings her some new and unusual friends, and a chance encounter with her old friend, Amay, makes her realize that a second chance at love might just be possible. And when she finds a job with an old associate, she can't help but think that leaving Bombay was the best decision she ever made.
But a series of dramas leaves Lucky feeling betrayed and looking for answers yet again. Her new life may not be everything she thought it was but she soon learns that only she has the power to change her destiny.
Edgy and bold...not your standard do-good, feel-good collection at all
—— Boyd Tonkin , IndependentA delicious romantic comedy which also serves as a crash course in cultural differences. Stylish fun
—— RED Magazine****
—— Heat Magazineescapism par excellence and I definitely recommend it if you're a chick lit fan or just looking for a lovely light read! It's a great debut and I can't wait to read more by this author!
—— Bookalicious-ramblings.netFallada assembles a cast of vivid low-life characters, stoolies, thieves and whores
—— James Buchan , GuardianVisceral, chilling ... has the suspense of a Le Carré novel
—— New YorkerA classic study of a paranoid society. Fallada's scope is extraordinary. Alone in Berlin is ... as morally powerful as anything I've ever read
—— Charlotte Moore , TelegraphFirst published in Germany in 1947 and evoking the horror of life in Germany in the Second World War. A rediscovered masterpiece that makes you want to seek out more works by this great chronicler of events in my own lifetime.
—— Barry Humphries, Books of the Year, Sunday TelegraphThe other fictional high point of 2009 was Alone in Berlin ... Hans Fallada's 1947 portrait of an ordinary German couple stung into a life of protest by the death of their soldier son is harrowing and masterly.
—— David Robson , Books of the Year, Sunday Telegraph[This novel] suggests that resistance to evil is rarely straightforward, mostly futile, and generally doomed. Yet to the novel's aching, unanswered question: 'Does it matter?' there is in this strange and compelling story to be found a reply in the affirmative. Primo Levi had it right: This is the great novel of German resistance.
—— Richard Flanagan'What Irène Némirovsky's "Suite Française" did for wartime France after six decades in obscurity, Fallada does for wartime Berlin.'
—— Roger Cohen, New York Times'[Alone in Berlin] has something of the horror of Conrad, the madness of Dostoyevsky and the chilling menace of Capote's "In Cold Blood"'.
—— Roger Cohen, New York Times'Fallada's great novel, beautifully translated by the poet Michael Hofmann, evokes the daily horror of life under the Third Reich, where the venom of Nazism seeped into the very pores of society, poisoning every aspect of existence. It is a story of resistance, sly humour and hope'
—— Ben Macintyre , The Times'an extraordinary novel'
—— Daily ExpressThere's plenty here to pull you in and, it must be said, I do really like the cover
—— meandmybigmouth BlogStories, generations and nationalities collide in what is an entertaining and superior novel
—— Lesley McDowell , Independent on Sunday
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