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 · Gifted by Nikita Lalwani. Sherene resents being in Wales and softens the parenting though she is bewildered by the conflict between preser “Gifted” giftsd the reader think about what it means to be an immigrant in Wales – from India, mixing in the society and rejected by it .  · The debut novel by Nikita Lalwani, Gifted, makes for quite enjoyable reading. It's about an Indian girl's coming of age in Cardiff, Wales, as a math prodigy pushed and prodded by an overly controlling father. Gifted About YOU PEOPLE (Penguin, ) 'A startlingly original, continuously astute and deeply compassionate novel, YOU PEOPLE alerts us, in these dark times, to the possibility of human nobility’ PANKAJ MISHRA.

Extract from 'Gifted' by Nikita Lalwani, published by Penguin. 'Have you heard of a place called Mensa?' said Mrs Gold. Mahesh felt exasperated. He had seen all the same adverts as her. The ads for this place she named with such careful tedium, as seen though she was rolling a diamond round her mouth. GIFTED BY NIKITA LALWANI PDF. By. admin Aug. Sufiah's story seems to have been the inspiration for Nikita Lalwani's first novel, " Gifted.". Here the driven father, Mahesh, is a mathematician. The over-arching theme of this first novel by Nikita Lalwani, who was born in India but raised in Wales, is about families and what. Gifted: Nikita Lalwani. After the announcement of the Booker longlist, Giftedby Nikita Lalwani was the first of the thirteen that I picked up in my eagerness to find out what the chosen few were about. Had it not made the longlist I have no doubts that I would never have picked it up. The cover, you see, is rather ugly.

Gifted by Nikita Lalwani. Sherene resents being in Wales and softens the parenting though she is bewildered by the conflict between preser “Gifted” giftsd the reader think about what it means to be an immigrant in Wales – from India, mixing in the society and rejected by it and striving to do super well. Gifted: Nikita Lalwani After the announcement of the Booker longlist, Gifted by Nikita Lalwani was the first of the thirteen that I picked up in my eagerness to find out what the chosen few were about. Nikita Lalwani‘s work has been translated into sixteen languages. Her first novel, 'Gifted' – the story of a child prodigy of Indian origin growing up in Wales – was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize for Fiction.