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All fiction has its autobiographical roots, but Evelyn Waugh puts it as “experience totally transformed”. The autobiographical impulse is particularly strong in JM Coetzee, the South African Nobel Prize winner (2003), but his writings lie at the frontier between life and the freedoms of fiction. Summertime (Harvill Secker, special Indian price Rs 799), the final volume of a trilogy — the other two being Boyhood and Youth — is subtitled Scenes from a Provincial Life, charts the border territory with multiple skills of a biographer and fiction writer so that it can pretty well mean what you would want it to be.

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Don't follow Chinese in establishing SEZs: Book
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Letters: Double standards

With the BJP now negotiating with Shibu Soren to form a government in Jharkhand, with Soren as the chief minister, one wonders what happens to all the statements the party made in Parliament and outside it about Soren. - Power firms Keen to set up plants in uttar pradesh - AV Rajwade: The imminent food crisis">AV Rajwade: The imminent food crisis - Buddha meets PM - Expect moderate returns in - Fresh bids for Rs 130-cr Ganga cruise project in mid-Jan 2010 - Sunil Jain: Continuing to dial disasters">Sunil Jain: Continuing to dial disasters The party’s constant refrain was that Soren was tainted, and so he should not be part of the UPA. Obviously that stand was for public consumption and now that the party is sensing it is close to some sort of victory, it is adopting a very different stance. It is unfortunate that the decision to form a government in Jharkhand, no matter what, was taken by the new BJP chief Nitin Gadkari in consultation with his predecessor Rajnath Singh. Sameer Gulati, New Delhi Readers should write to: The Editor, Business Standard, Nehru House, 4, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg, New Delhi 110 002, Fax: (011) 23720201; letters@bsmail.in


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