| Title | : | Anandamath |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 812220130X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 168 |
reprint of a classic, adpted from Bengali by Basanta Koomar Roy historical novel used widely as text...
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| Title | : | Shamsuddin's Grave |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1482843943 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 282 |
Latika s wrecked personal front leaves her completely shattered So when her ailing father reveals his desire to go back home, she doesn t think twice and moves to her hometown She joins an NGO and comes across a teenager rape victim Much against her TL, Debjyoti s wish she sets out to trace the girl with Shamsuddin s help Will she succeed or end up in big trouble Shams Latika s wrecked personal front leaves her completely shattered So when her ailing father reveals his desire to go back home, she doesn t ...
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| Title | : | Secret Daughter |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0061922315 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 339 |
Somer s life is everything she imagined it would be she s newly married and has started her career as a physician in San Francisco until she makes the devastating discovery she never will be able to have children.The same year in India, a poor mother makes the heartbreaking choice to save her newborn daughter s life by giving her away It is a decision that will haunt Somer s life is everything she imagined it would be she s newly married and has started her career as a physician in San Francisco...
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| Title | : | Twilight in Delhi |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 081121267X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 |
Set in nineteenth century India between two revolutionary moments of change, Twilight in Delhi brings history alive, depicting most movingly the loss of an entire culture and way of life As Bonamy Dobree said, It releases us into a different and quite complete world Mr Ahmed Ali makes us hear and smell Delhihear the flutter of pigeons wings, the cries of itinerant Set in nineteenth century India between two revolutionary moments of change, Twilight in Delhi brings history alive, depicting most m...
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| Title | : | Delhi |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0140126198 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 391 |
I return to Delhi as I return to my mistress Bhagmati when I have had my fill of whoring in foreign lands.Thus begins Khushwant Singh s vast, erotic, irrelevant magnum opus on the city of Delhi The principal narrator of the saga, which extends over six hundred years, is a bawdy, ageing reprobate who loves Delhi as much as he does the hijra whore Bhagmati half man, half I return to Delhi as I return to my mistress Bhagmati when I have had my fill of whoring in foreign lands.Thus begins Khushwant ...
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| Title | : | Rangbhumi |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0195667123 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 650 |
Premchand is one of the most outstanding figures in twentieth century Hindi literature The inhumanity of caste hierarchies and the plight of women stirred his indignation and remained constant themes throughout his works Of his many novels, Rangbhumi depicts most graphically the devastation of peasant society and agriculture under colonial rule....
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| Title | : | A Good Indian Wife |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0393065235 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 |
Handsome anesthesiologist Neel prides himself on his decisiveness, both in and out of the operating room So when he agrees to return to India to visit his ailing grandfather, he is sure he ll be able to resist his family s pleas that he marry a good Indian girl With a girlfriend and a promising career back in San Francisco, the last thing Neel needs is an arranged marr Handsome anesthesiologist Neel prides himself on his decisiveness, both in and out of the operating room So when he agrees to re...
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| Title | : | Coolie |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0140186808 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 282 |
Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bomboy and Simla, sweating as servant, factory worker and rickshaw driver It is a fight for survival that illuminates, with raw immediacy, the grim fate of the masses in pre Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for hi...
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| Title | : | Samskara |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0195610792 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 |
Made into a powerful, award winning film in 1970, this important Kannada novel of the sixties has received widespread acclaim from both critics and general readers since its first publication in 1965 As a religious novel about a decaying brahmin colony in the south Indian village of Karnataka, Samskara serves as an allegory rich in realistic detail, a contemporary rewor Made into a powerful, award winning film in 1970, this important Kannada novel of the sixties has received widespread acclaim from both c...
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| Title | : | Shalimar the Clown |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0099421887 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 |
From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review For Westerners, Rushdie s latest may be better heard than read While readers might stumble over the Kashmiri, Indian and Pakistani names and accents, Mandvi glides right through them, allowing us to engage with Rushdie s well wrought characters and sagas Mandvi has a calm, quiet storyteller voice, often employing tempo to express emo From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review For Westerners, Rushdie s latest may be better heard than read While readers might stumble...
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| Title | : | The City of Joy |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0446355569 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 552 |
Made into a movie starring Patrick Swayze, this is the inspiring story of an American doctor who experienced a spiritual rebirth in an impoverished section of Calcutta....
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| Title | : | Clear Light of Day |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0618074511 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 183 |
Set in India s Old Delhi, CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY is Anita Desai s tender, warm, and compassionate novel about family scars, the ability to forgive and forget, and the trials and tribulations of familial love At the novel s heart are the moving relationships between the members of the Das family, who have grown apart from each other Bimla is a dissatisfied but ambitious teach Set in India s Old Delhi, CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY is Anita Desai s tender, warm, and compassionate novel about family scars, the ab...
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| Title | : | The Shadow Lines |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 061832996X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 246 |
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh s radiant second novel follows two families one English, one Bengali as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the late twentieth century, through years of Bengali partition and violence, observi Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh s radiant second novel follows two families one English, one Bengali as their lives inte...
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| Title | : | The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone |
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| ISBN | : | |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 404 |
In his critically acclaimed previous work, India From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond, Shashi Tharoor, one of India s most respected writers and diplomats, traced the country s history from late colonial times through its first fifty years of independence Interest in the subcontinent has never been greater, and this new work offers precious insights into this compl In his critically acclaimed previous work, India From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond, Shashi Tharoor, one of India s most respect...
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| Title | : | The Space Between Us |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 006079156X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 321 |
Set in modern day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women Sera Dubash, an upper middle class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who has worked in the Dubash household for than twenty years....
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| Title | : | The Inscrutable Americans |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1577310241 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 |
A hilarious and poignant novel about an Indian exchange student s year at a small American university An engaging look at the clash of Indian culture and an America that is both harsh and exhilarating to a smart but naive foreignerGopal arrives in America from a small town in India prepared for study but decidedly unprepared for the cultural differences he encounters Th A hilarious and poignant novel about an Indian exchange student s year at a small American university An engaging look at the c...
3.5
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| Title | : | All About H. Hatterr |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1590172426 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 316 |
Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing works modern English has produced H Hatterr is the son of a European merchant officer and a lady from Penang who has been raised and educated in missionary schools in Calcutta His story is of his search for enlightenment as, in the course of visiting Wildly funny and wonderfully bizarre, All About H Hatterr is one of the most perfectly eccentric and strangely absorbing wor...
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