Isbn: 9789360127077 - ordinary hours (4 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Most lives do not change in dramatic moments. They change in ordinary hours.A teacher pauses before speaking to a struggling student - and the words he chooses follow the boy for the rest of his life. A mother spends one evening on a beach helping her scientist son decide whether the world is ready for a drug that could end ageing, and end memory along with it. A judge reflects on a verdict he was never certain was just. An engineer, having lost the career that defined him, walks into a library and finds something he didn't know he was looking for. Ordinary Hours is a collection of twelve stories set in villages and cities, classrooms and courtrooms, laboratories and kitchens - stories about teachers, doctors, scientists, entrepreneurs, immigrants, parents, judges, and children, each meeting a moment that quietly asks: what really matters here? Moving between small-town Karnataka and the wider world - a London garden, a Texas balcony, a Chennai library, the ancient forest of the Mahabharata - these stories share one simple belief: that the turning points of a life are rarely the loud ones. Warm, thoughtful, and deeply human, Ordinary Hours will stay with you long after you turn the last page. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…