Bibliograph

Casual blindness, a novel, Ron Savage

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Casual blindness, a novel, Ron Savage

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Casual blindness

Responsibility statement

Ron Savage

Series statement

Local authors project

Sub title

a novel

Summary

Dr. Avi Wolff is a geologist, with a specialty in hydrology. The World Bank has requested his assistance in mediating a recent dispute over the 1960 Indus Water Treaty, an agreement between India and Pakistan that involves the water rights of six rivers. This is a powerful issue. And in the past it has brought India and Pakistan to the verge of nuclear war. Each of these rivers runs through India before they go into Pakistan. And whoever controls the water controls the lives of a country.Avi had made some mistakes in his graduate school days at Berkeley. He liked to tease and to joke, he enjoyed stirring people up, especially his roommate Wasim Attar, a Pakistani who now lived in Kashmir and had come to Berkeley for his graduate work in geology. It wasn<U+2019>t that Wasim didn<U+2019>t deserve being Avi<U+2019>s source of amusement, the boy couldn<U+2019>t get along with anybody. Everything about Berkeley was an affront to his senses.A month or so before going to India, Dr. Wolff started getting emails from Wasim. Why not get together when Avi comes to India? A cup of coffee perhaps, talk about old times, resolve differences. It seemed like a good idea. Now Rabbi Bebe Wolff's husband has vanished. The Rabbi and her fifteen year old daughter, Chaya, have gone to Kolkata to find him. Before they go, they must come to terms with the notion that Dr. Avi Wolff is now a hostage

Target audience

adult

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