The novel splutters to a start through alternative, aborted beginnings, including a metafictional section: "The novel is really rather good, but it is lacking a few things," the character Kamel tells the author, advice that rings true.
To tell his stories, Banerjee, who has been based in Berlin since 2011, draws upon the visual and textual vocabulary of Western modernism: fragmented narratives, alternative endings and beginnings, repetitions, elisions, mixed-up chronology.
It was the beginnings of an alternative to the label paradigm.
Far from Washington, and even farther from the reigning ideology there, some civil-rights advocates have begun to sketch the beginnings of an alternative scenario for voting rights.
Meanwhile Biden had in recent days begun to carve out what looked like the beginnings of his alternative proposition, something he continued in Wednesday's speech with calls for action on campaign finance, college tuition and more bipartisan cooperation.
The writing is exceptionally clear". "This excellent and engaging book succeeds in raising questions about the dominant approach to asking questions about our identities and our concern for the future, as well as in offering... the beginnings of an alternative way to ask and answer such questions.
It represented the emergence of a new generation in New York's black political establishment, an alternative to the regular Democratic machine and the beginnings of a seismic transformation in political geography.
The IFSI, which has marketed itself as being an alternative to the conventional financial system, has come a long way from its rather modest and relatively recent beginnings.
After the beginnings of the war in Europe, political activism in opposition to war and working for alternatives to war became, for some women, their primary occupation.
