Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question ‘What should I do with my life?’ In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence,
AKHIL SHARMAExposition suggests a great trust in the reader, and this expression of trust makes a book feel tender.
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There are also so many emotional aspects to money – feelings of inadequacy, feelings of security. I am not sure if there needs to be more about money in fiction, but the absence of this aspect can make a story feel somehow frictionless and unreal.
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Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn’t. The fact that something is true in the real world should not lend authority to it in fiction.
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Ernest Hemingway has been the most important influence on me as a writer. But at a certain point as a writer,
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The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies.
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Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider’s look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.
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Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?
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As a human being living one’s life, one is more open to relief when there is rain or the expectation of rain. That readiness for hope gets manifested in my stories and that of many other Indian writers.
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Even within my stories, people hold opposing views.
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The monsoon is such a dominant part of Indian life that it is hard to overstate its importance.
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The little babies are missing their families from their past lives.
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I can’t have composite characters. I can’t attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.
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If anybody reads an Indian newspaper, all these things are obvious, and so I am not breaking news. All I am doing is representing my community as it actually is.
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I tend to think that we are all pretty much alike. We all feel despair. We all have problems with relationships.
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It is hard to write about physically difficult things without causing the reader to disengage.
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For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true.
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