Pathways to Murders - Burns, Ian
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Can you carry two contradictory thoughts in your mind at the same time and still tie your shoelaces? What about three, four, five, six...? Where a lot of people get into desperate trouble. In Australia, Malaya, Thailand, Burma, Singapore, Netherlands. From almost commonplace personal histories to the almost unbelievable present. Stretching over eighty years or so. A Dutch woman blows up her husband and then becomes best friends with an Australian Aboriginal lesbian warrior. A Chinese grandmother seduced, not unwillingly, by a Scottish rubber planter in Malaya. What would you do if you received…mehr

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Can you carry two contradictory thoughts in your mind at the same time and still tie your shoelaces? What about three, four, five, six...? Where a lot of people get into desperate trouble. In Australia, Malaya, Thailand, Burma, Singapore, Netherlands. From almost commonplace personal histories to the almost unbelievable present. Stretching over eighty years or so. A Dutch woman blows up her husband and then becomes best friends with an Australian Aboriginal lesbian warrior. A Chinese grandmother seduced, not unwillingly, by a Scottish rubber planter in Malaya. What would you do if you received a text message offering you $20 million? $60 million? Was that signpost, or that one, helpful in determining who was responsible, or was it just a red herring? When everything comes together and is fully explained, will you know what happened? Or will you find that you have a bout of Depersonalisation Disorder? Can you work it out? Is there a plot or is it a plot? Is it possible to work it out? Dammit. Why don't you just ignore all this - relax, open your autobiography of Sigmund Freud and...? On the other hand . . .
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This story is the final of three set in India and Australia, beginning around 1950 and following through to today. Ranga Plays Australia tells the original story, in the third person. It had its origin in a suggestion by an old friend that I write a book about India, cricket, and Australia - surely an irresistible combination. But I am not Indian, though I did have boyhood Indian playmates and have visited India several times, so my concern resolved around writing authentically, where an Indian reader would not be able to take me to task. Luckily, I was introduced to Bhaktavatsala Moola, an eminent movie producer and widely-read in English literature. He was also a protege of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Bhakta rode shotgun on me, chapter by chapter. Looking back on the story, I found that I was very fond of Ranga's guru and his many wise sayings, such that I put these together in a second book, The Wisdom of Harkishen Singh, which was complemented with photos of an earlier India. Now this book, which shows the context of some of Harkishen's sayings, and spends more time with Ranga's later life, with more attention to his Australian experience. This is told in the first person.