The Undercover Economist By Tim Harford
Rs 472
The book is a fresh explanation of the fundamental principles of the modern economy, illuminated by examples from the streets of London to the booming skyscrapers of Shanghai to the sleepy canals of Bruges.
Leaving behind textbook jargon and equations, Tim Harford will reveal the games of signals and negotiations, contests of strength and battles of wit that drive not only the economy at large but the everyday choices we make.
Solo
By Rana Dasgupta
Rs 632
Solo recounts the life and daydreams of a reclusive one hundred year-old man from Bulgaria.
Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of parrots speaking the language of a society that had been wiped out in a recent catastrophe.
Astonished by their discovery, they put the parrots in cages and sent them home so that linguists could record what remained of the lost language. But the parrots, already traumatized by the devastation they had recently witnessed, died on the way.
Luka and the fire of Life By Salman Rushdie
Rs 792
Rushdie unleashes his imagination on an alternate world informed by the surreal logic of video games, but the author’s entertaining wordplay and lighter-than-air fantasies don’t amount to more than a clever pastiche.
A sequel of sorts to “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, this outing finds Haroun’s younger brother, Luka, on a mission to save his father, guided, ironically, by Nobodaddy, a holograph-like copy of his father intent on claiming the old man’s life.
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