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About: Man search for Meaning is a 1946  book by Viktor Frankl chronicling his experiences as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps during World War II and describing his psychotherapeutic method, which involved identifying a purpose in life to feel positive about, and then immersively imagining that outcome. He hoped to cure through his writings the personal alienation and cultural malaise that plagued many individuals who felt an 'inner emptiness' or a 'void within themselves'. Summary & More About Book: Viktor Frankl was one of the few, who survived in the place, where your chances of dying are higher than those of living on any given day. After three years in various concentration camps, his camp Turkheim was liberated, upon which he returned to Vienna, where he was born. Frankl spent the rest of his life teaching what he'd learned during the worst of times: that people can, and must, find meaning in their lives, even if all they know is tremendous sufferi...

About: Love in the Time of Cholera is a novel published in Spanish in 1985 by Nobel prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, Alfred A. Knopf published an English translation in 1988, and an English Language movie adaptation was released in 2007. Summary: The Story starts from the day of Dr Juvenal Urbino's death. He is a highly successful doctor who has done much for Caribbean city in which he lives, so death has a great effect on the city. The two who are most affected are Fermina Daza, his widow, and Florentino Ariza, the man who has been waiting for him to die for fifty-one years. Florentino Ariza professes, for a second time, his "eternal fidelity and everlasting love" to the Doctor and his wife, Fermina Daza. Fermina is horrified by such an insensitive display, and, for the first time, she realizes the magnitude of "drama" she had provoked at the age of eighteen. Although Fermina Daza may have Florentino Ariza from her memory, he has not stopped thinkin...

About: The book is all about growing up in extraordinary circumstances in the 1930s in the Southern United States. The novel is published in 1960 by Harper Lee and is widely read in high schools and middle schools in the United States. Despite dealing with the serious issues of rape and racial inequality, the novel is renowned for its warmth and humour. The title "To Kill A Mocking Bird" refers to a local belief, introduced early in the novel and referred to again later, that it is a sin to kill a mockingbird. Harper Lee is subtly implying that the townspeople are responsible for killing Tom Robinson, and was doing so was not only unjust and immortal but sinful. Summary: The Story covers a span of 3 years, during which main characters undergo significant changes. Scout Finch lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus in the fictitious town Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is a small, close-knit town, and every family has its social station depending on where they live, who...

About: A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afgan-American author Khalid Hosseini. It is his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut, The Kite Runner. Hosseini has remarked that he regards the novel as a "mother-daughter story" in contrast to The Kite Runner, which he considers a "father-son story". Summary: This book is set in Afganistan from the early 1960s to the early 2000s. Mariam, a young girl in the 1960s, grows up outside Herat, a small city in Afganistan. Mariam has complicated feelings about her parents: She lives with her spiteful and stubborn mother, Nana; while her father Jalil, a successful businessman, visits Mariam - his only illegitimate child - once a week. Mariam resents her limited place in Jalil's life; she wants to live with him, his 3 wives and her half-siblings in Herat. Mariam walks Herat and finds Jalil's house but he doesn't let her in, so she sleeps on the street. The next Morning, Jalil's chauffeur drives Mar...

About The Book: The Kite Runner is the first Novel by Afgan-American author Khalid Hosseini Published in 2003. The Books tells the story of Amir, a Sunni Muslim, from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, whose closest friend is Hassan, struggles to find his place in the world because of the aftereffects and fallout from a series of traumatic childhood events. The Kite Runner is a novel about Relationships - specifically the relationships between Amir and Hassan, Baba, Rahim Khan, Soraya and Sohrab - how the complex relationships in our lives overlap and connect to make us the people we are. Why Title The Kite Runner? Kites and everything associated with them (kite flying and kite fighting) are the most important symbols in the novel. Traditionally, kites symbolize both prophecy and fate, and both of these ideas can be applied to characters and events in The Kite Runner. However, kites symbolize so much in The Kite Runner. The Afghan Kites with the glass strings symbolize the dichot...

Stay Hungry Stay Foolish: Rashmi Bansal with her motley compilation of 25 write-ups on as many Indian entrepreneurs. Rashmi a pparently, drew inspira tion for her book from Steve Job's famous Standford University Speech. However, except the title of the book, there is no other similarity between the two. Review:                                   This book tells the stories of entrepreneurial ambitions of 25 IIM-A alumni and how they realized their dreams even as the hard times threatened to do them in. The author deserves credit for having smartly cherry-picked the 25-profiles. This eclectic mix comprises of those who always knew they had a penchant for entrepreneurship and those whose first choice was not entrepreneurship but as and when opportunities came knocking, they grabbed them with both hands. The book brims with stories of people who laughed in the face of temptations and gave up their plu...