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The Indian Clerk is an utterly compelling story about our need to find order in the world.
ผู้เขียนDavid Leavitt

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รหัสสินค้า: 9780747596325
จำนวน: 485 หน้า
ขนาดรูปเล่ม: 129 x 198 x 29 มม.
น้ำหนัก: 325 กรัม
เนื้อในพิมพ์: ขาวดำ 
ชนิดปก: ปกอ่อน 
ชนิดกระดาษ: กระดาษถนอมสายตา 
หน่วย: เล่ม 
สำนักพิมพ์: Bloomsbury 
:: เนื้อหาโดยสังเขป
January, 1913, Cambridge. G.H. Hardy - eccentric, charismatic and considered the greatest British mathematician of his age - receives a mysterious envelope covered with Indian stamps. Inside he finds a rambling letter from a self-professed mathematical genius who claims to be on the brink of solving the most important mathematical problem of his time.

Hardy determines to learn more about this mysterious Indian clerk, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a decision that will profoundly affect not only his own life, and that of his friends, but the entire history of mathematics. Set against the backdrop of the First World War, and populated with such luminaries as D.H. Lawrence and Bertrand Russell, "The Indian Clerk" fashions from this fascinating period an utterly compelling story about our need to find order in the world.
:: คำนิยม
"A loving exploration of one of the greatest collaborations of the past century, The Indian Clerk is a novel that briliantly orchestrates questions of colonialism, sexual identity and the nature of genius"
-- Manil Suri --
Author of The Death of Vishnu

"Leavitt brings to life a world of maths and mysticism"
-- Observer --

"Excellent... His Hardy is superb creation... The author also synthesises huge amounts of engrossing period gossip... the snatches of backbiting and shop-talk richly convey the anxieties of the intellectual climate"
-- Daily Telegraph --
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Author
"David Leavitt"
He has written several highly acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction, including THE LOST LANGUAGE OF CRANES, which was made into a BBC film. His recently published collection of novellas, ARKANSAS, was hailed by the INDEPENDENT as 'a literary triumph'.