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Answer: (a)

Answer: (c)

Answer: (b)

The famous novels of Salman Rushdie include: Grimus (1975); Shame (1983); The Moor's Last Sigh (1995); and The Ground Beneath Her Feet (1999). His most recent book is Joseph Anton: A Memoir, an account of his life in the wake of the controversy over The Satanic Verses. It was published in September 2012.

Answer: (a)

A Grammar of Politics is the magnum opus work of Harold Laski, a British political theorist, economist, and author. Published in 1925 by the Oxford University Press, the book discusses such issues as necessity of government; state and society; rights and power; liberty and equality; property as a theory of industrial organisation; the nature of nationalism; etc.

Answer: (c)

Life of Pi is a fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist, Piscine Molitor “Pi” Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a boat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.

The novel was rejected by at least five London publishing houses before being accepted by Knopf Canada, which published it in September 2001.

The UK edition won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the following year. It was also chosen for CBC Radio’s Canada Reads 2003, where it was championed by author Nancy Lee.

The French translation, L’histoire de Pi, was chosen in the French version of the contest, Le Combat Des Livres, where it was championed by Louise Forestier.