Member: acornell

Hi Amy,

You asked why I wrote the story of my refugee clients as a fictional account in my novel "A Thousand Veils." One reason is that I had always wanted to write a novel. More importantly, however, as a lawyer, I had to protect the confidentiality of my clients. Nevertheless, although the characters in my novel are ficticious, they are not that different from the refugees with whom I worked, and their actual stories were every bit as exciting as the story in the novel.

D J Murphy

posted by DJMurphy at 10:38 am (EST) on Aug 14, 2008

The book is actually a anthology of poetry in English by A.K.Ramanujan. The poet is multi-lingual and may have himself translated his poems from Tamil/Kannada (two South Indian languages). I will have a look and let you know, but I rather suspect that Molly must be Mrs. Ramanujan who undertook the editing. I am away from the book and in my office right now.
Regards

posted by sthitha_pragjna at 1:11 pm (EST) on Mar 3, 2008

I'm only allowed to post 200 books, but we share 14 of them. Several of these I had forgotten to put in my own reading list, so thanks. There are many others we share because I've hit my limit and I can't post any more. I find the number of shared books very striking -- it's much higher than with anyone else on librarything, and there's no pattern to the books we share, except that most are nonfiction. Please post a description of yourself.

posted by MarcRobinson at 1:46 am (EST) on Jul 20, 2007

You and I are the only ones with a copy of Bad Names For Women by Hilary Tham. You may want to know that I just scanned a book cover for it. Some nice poems, don't you think?

posted by marysargent at 8:12 pm (EST) on Jul 19, 2007