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"A fourteen-year-old Indian girl named Rumi Vasi is blessed with an almost supernatural gift for mathematics. This gift may open many doors for her, and also for her family. As Rumi grows older however, her love of numbers starts to fade and her interest in friendship and spicy foods grows."
"Novel based on fourteen-year-old India-born math prodigy Rumi Vashey becomes the object of her parents' campaign to make her one of the youngest students ever to attend Oxford University, until she rebels against her parents' expectations to seek out friendship and romance."
"The story of a young girl in Wales, who is found to be gifted in mathematics and from an early age lives a disciplined life, tutored by her Indian father, set apart from her peers - As she grows older, she comes to query this isolated, protected world that he would have her live in."
""Numbers have filled Rumi Vasi's world since she first learned to count. But it was on a trip to India at the age of eight that her mathematical powers acquired their almost supernatural significance. When she returned home to Cardiff her destiny was sealed: she was now, and would forever be, the town's 'maths prodigy'." "At fourteen Rumi is firmly set on the path of a gifted child, speeding headlong towards Oxford University. As her father sees it, discipline is everything if the family has any hope of making its mark on its adoptive country. However, as Rumi gets older and the family's stark isolation intensifies, numbers start to lose their magic for the young teenager: she abandons the rigid timetable of her afternoons to seek out friendship and replaces equations with rampant spice abuse. As her longing for love and her parents' will to succeed deepen, so too does the rift between generations." "Gifted captures the battle to come of age in an emotional and comic hinterland, where histories, arithmetic and cumin seeds all play a part. Nikita Lalwani brings to life a young family's search for recognition and how that search can break a family apart."-- English publisher."
"Fourteen-year-old India-born math prodigy Rumi Vashey becomes the object of her parents' campaign to make her one of the youngest students ever to attend Oxford University, until she rebels against her parents' expectations to seek out friendship and romance."
"Fourteen-year-old India-born math prodigy Rumi Vashey becomes the object of her parents' campaign to make her one of the youngest students ever to attend Oxford University, until she rebels against her parents' expectations to seek out friendship and romance."@en
"Rumi Vasi is 10 years, 2 months, 13 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes, and 6 seconds old. She's figured that the likelihood of her walking home from school with the boy she likes, John Kemble, is 0.2142, a probability severely reduced by the lacy dress and thick woolen tights her father, and Indian EmigrE, forces her to wear. Rumi is a gifted child, and her father, Mahesh, believes that strict discipline is the key to nurturing her genius if the family has any hope of making its mark on its adoptive country. Four years later, a teenage Rumi is at the center of an intense campaign by her parents to make her the youngest student ever to attend Oxford University, an effort that requires an unrelenting routine of study. Yet Rumi is growing up like any other normal teen: her mind often drifts to potent distractions . . . from music to love. Rumi's parents want nothing other than to give Rumi an exceptional life. As her father outlines ever more regimented study schedules, her mother longs for India and forcefully reminds Rumi of her roots. In the end, the intense expectations of a family with everything to prove will be a combustible ingredient as an intelligent but naive girl is thrust into the adult world before she has time to grow up. In her stunningly eloquent debut novel, Nikita Lalwani pits a parent's dream against a child's. Deftly pondering the complexities and consequences that accompany the best intentions, Gifted explores just how far one person will push another, and how much can be endured, in the name of love. Advance praise for Gifted "A triumph . . . fluid, original, clever, glitteringly vivid, funny . . . All the conventional pieties and forms of Indian immigrant identity and trauma are so wittily preempted, and yet there's a sure grasp, at the serious core of the novel, of the deep reverberations of politics and history. I couldn't bear it when it ended." 'Tessa Hadley, author of The Master Bedroom "This is an outstanding piece of writing'rich, vivid, fluent, and well paced'with a wonderful cast of well-developed, engaging characters and a constantly surprising story line." 'Gerard Woodward, author of A Curious Earth From the Hardcover edition."@en
"Als een vijfjarig meisje in een Brits-Indiaas gezin een rekenwonder blijkt te zijn, besluit haar fanatieke vader dat er elke dag uren gestudeerd moet worden."

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"Belletristische Darstellung"
"Roman anglais"
"Domestic fiction"
"Electronic books"@en
"Fiction"
"Fiction"@en

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"En særlig begavelse"@da
"Begaafd"
"Gifted a novel"@en
"Gifted : a novel"
"Gifted : a novel"@en
"Raíces cuadradas"@es
"Surdouée"
"Piñjare meṃ uṛāna"
"Utalentowana"@pl
"Utalentowana"
"Gifted"@en
"Gifted"
"La bambina prodigio"
"La bambina prodigio"@it

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