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Peter P. Greweling, The Culinary Institute of America (CIA)

Latin America is a living contradiction. Due to its natural resource wealth, it is the one place in the world where all efforts have been concentrated on encouraging development. However, it is also the place that has shown the most difficulties...

Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke

Lucid, insane, deadly serious, wildly playful, biblomaniacal, and perversely imaginative' Nicole Krauss Featuring several mass-murdering authors, two fraternal writers at the head of a football-hooligan ring and a poet who crafts his lines in the...

Douglas Featonby

Friday August 15th, 1997 - The night the girls arrived, two tiny Korean babies are delivered to Baltimore to two families who have no more in common than this. First there are the Donaldsons, decent Brad and homespun, tenacious Bitsy (with her 'more organic than thou' airs, who believes fervently that life can always be improved), two full sets of grandparents and a host of big-boned, confident relatives, taking delivery with characteristic American razzmatazz. Then there are the Yazdans, pretty, nervous Ziba (her family 'only one generation removed from the bazaar') and carefully assimilated Sami, with his elegant, elusive Iranian-born widowed mother Maryam, the grandmother-to-be, receiving their little bundle with wondering discretion. Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' their two extended families celebrate together, with more and more elaborately competitive parties, as tiny, delicate Susan, wholesome, stocky Jin-ho and, later, her new little sister Xiu-Mei, take roots, become American.While Maryam, the optimistic pessimist, confident that if things go wrong - as well they may - she will manage as she has before, contrarily preserves her 'outsider' status, as if to prove that, despite her passport, she is only a guest in this bewildering country. Full of achingly hilarious moments and toe-curling misunderstandings, "Digging to America" is a novel with a deceptively small domestic canvas, and subtly large themes - it's about belonging and otherness, about insiders and outsiders, pride and prejudice, young love and unexpected old love, families and the impossibility of ever getting it right, about striving for connection and goodness against all the odds. And the end catches you by the throat, ambushes your emotions when you least expect it, as only Tyler can.

Martin B. Pedersen

David Hampshire, Anthony Poulton-Smith, Susan Palmquist

"The DK Eyewitness Chicago" travel guide will lead you through the best attractions the city has to offer, including fully illustrated coverage of all the major sights from Lincoln Park Zoo to the Art Institute of Chicago. The guide provides all the insider tips every visitor needs, whether you're shopping in Michigan Avenue, enjoying the rides at the Navy Pier funfair or being amazed by views from the Sears Tower. You'll find comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops and nightlife in all areas of the city, for all budgets. Plus, 3D cutaways and floorplans of all the must-see sites and street maps to guide you through the city, with reliable information on getting around. "DK Eyewitness Chicago" explores the culture, history, wildlife and architecture of Chicago, not forgetting its distinctly different outlying areas. With all the sites, shops, tours and attractions listed area by area, this "DK Eyewitness" travel guide is your essential companion to Chicago. DK Eyewitness Chicago - showing you what others only tell you.