Ordinary Hours - Couverture souple

Hegde, Parameshwar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9360127078 ISBN 13 : 9789360127077

Editeur : Parameshwar Hegde, 2026

Synopsis

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Parameshwar Hegde
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9360127078
• ISBN 13: 9789360127077
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 191
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