An Island: (Long listed for the 2021 Booker Prize) by Karen Jennings Oscar Wilde Virendra and Arun meet each

Virendra and Arun meet each other in IIT– a place regarded as the gateway to success

the regular moviegoer would have been hard-pressed to recognise more than a couple of names in the film's credits

it is possible

and slips back into flirting with Simon

Rumi is not too enthusiastic about accompanying Baba to the sleepy village of Shankerpur

An Island: (Long listed for the 2021 Booker Prize) by Karen Jennings Oscar Wilde Virendra and Arun meet eachAUTHOR : KAREN JENNINGS GENRE : FICTION (BOOKER SHORTLIST) QUICK TAKE: An Island concerns itself with lives lived on the margins, through the story of a man who has exiled himself from the known world only to find himself called to the service of others, themselves exiled from the world by cruelty and circumstance. It is on these grounds that this writer deftly constructs a moving, transfixing novel of loss, political upheaval, history, identity, all