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45 Years is among the barest, most harrowing films any pair of lovers can see. Kicking off the events of the film is the 45th anniversary of married couple Kate and Geoff Mercer, and what occurs on the eve of that celebration. Geoff, played by Tom Courtenay in his career-best, is shocked by an unsettling news the body of Katya, an ex-lover, has been discovered in a melted glacier in the Swiss Alps, where she had fallen in over five decades ago when on a trip with the young Mercer. Playing his wife, Kate, is cinema-great Charlotte Rampling, who firms the film in her hands. Constantine s original 2001 short story, inspired by true and personal events, first appeared in the British magazine,
Five years since the release of The Bones of Grace (Daily Star Books, 2016), the Bengal Trilogy author Tahmima Anam has just published her fourth novel, The Startup Wife (Canongate, 2021), this week. Anam will be in conversation with journalist Georgina Godwin at today's Hay Festival session at 3 PM GMT (8 PM Bangladesh time).
New York Times-bestselling novel,
Love, Hate and Other Filters (Soho Teen, 2019). The book explores the life of an Indian-American Muslim as she battles Islamophobia and cultural divides. Her other works include
Internment (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2019) and
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know (Soho Teen, 2020).
Internment revolves around the life of a Muslim teen who is forced into an internment camp for Muslim Americans and decides to rebel. Narrated in dual timelines,
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know traces the lives of two women striving to chase their passion while escaping family burdens.
Canadian author Uzma Jalaluddin s debut novel,
Ayesha At Last (Berkley Books, 2019), is loosely based on the plot of Jane Austen s
Fragments of Riversong (Daily Star Books, 2013), and Saad Z Hussain, author of
Djinn City (Bengal Lights Books, 2018) and
The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday (Bengal Lights Books, 2019), as well as Mumbai-based journalist Jane Borges, Catherine Menon, author of
Fragile Monsters (Viking 2021), and Sabyn Javeri, author of
Hijabistan (Harper Collins 2019), among others. The masterclasses and sessions will cover everything from writing inspiration to practicing craft to research to publication , Farah Ghuznavi told
The Daily Star. I am not part of the selection process but I can definitely say that the successful applicant will need to have an originality of voice that can absorb the reader completely , she added.