| 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 | : | Half a Life |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 037570728X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 |
In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V S Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity.The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father s self denial and In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V S Naipaul has produced his finest n...
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| Title | : | The Palace of Illusions |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0385515995 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 |
A reimagining of the world famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat told from the point of view of an amazing woman.Relevant to today s war torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of A reimagining of the world famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat told from the point of view of an amazing woman.Relevant to today ...
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| Title | : | Serious Men |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0393338592 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 |
A poignant, bitingly funny Indian satire and love story set in a scientific institute and in Mumbai s humid tenements Ayyan Mani, one of the thousands of dalit untouchable caste men trapped in Mumbai s slums, works in the Institute of Theory and Research as the lowly assistant to the director, a brilliant self assured astronomer Ever wily and ambitious, Ayyan weaves tw A poignant, bitingly funny Indian satire and love story set in a scientific institute and in Mumbai s humid tenements Ayyan Mani...
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| Title | : | Inspector Ghote Breaks an Egg (Inspector Ghote, #6) |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 089733177X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 190 |
The Inspector finds himself in a small provincial town his mandate is to investigate a death 15 years earlier....
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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 | : | If Today Be Sweet |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0061240230 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 |
Tehmina Sethna s beloved husband has died this past year and she is visiting her son, Sorab, in his suburban Ohio home Now Tehmina is being asked to choose between her old, familiar life in India and a new one in Ohio with her son, his American wife, and their child She must decide whether to leave the comforting landscape of her native India for the strange rituals of l Tehmina Sethna s beloved husband has died this past year and she is visiting her son, Sorab, in his suburban Ohio home Now Teh...
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| Title | : | Secret Daughter |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0062203967 |
| Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 379 |
Somer s life is everything she imagined it would be starting her career as a physician and newly married in San Francisco until she makes the devastating discovery she will never 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 Kavita fo Somer s life is everything she imagined it would be starting her career as a physician and newly married in San Francisco until s...
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| Title | : | The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1) |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0099439964 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 |
BOOK ONE OF THE RAJ QUARTETIndia 1942 everything is in flux World War II has shown that the British are not invincible and the self rule lobby is gaining many supporters Against this background, Daphne Manners, a young English girl, is brutally raped in the Bibighat Gardens The racism, brutality and hatred launched upon the head of her young Indian lover echo the dread BOOK ONE OF THE RAJ QUARTETIndia 1942 everything is in flux World War II has shown that the British are not invincible and the self rule l...
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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 | : | Oleander Girl |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 1451695683 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 |
Beloved bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been hailed by Abraham Verghese as a gifted storyteller and by People magazine as a skilled cartographer of the heart Now, Divakaruni returns with her most gripping novel yet, a sweeping, suspenseful coming of age tale about a young woman who leaves India for America on a search that will transform her lif Beloved bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni has been hailed by Abraham Verghese as a gifted storyteller and by People ma...
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| Title | : | The Forgotten Daughter |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 190949027X |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 |
You were adopted Three simple words, in a letter accompanying her parent s will, tear Nisha s carefully ordered world apart Raised in England, by her caring but emotionally reserved parents, Nisha has never been one to take risks.Now, with the scrawled address of an Indian convent begins a search for the mother and family she never knew and the awakening of childhood You were adopted Three simple words, in a letter accompanying her parent s will, tear Nisha s carefully ord...
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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 | : | The Dowry Bride |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0758220316 |
| Format | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 343 |
One sultry night, a young bride overhears an extraordinary conversation The voices speak of a plot to murder a wife who has failed to produce a child and whose family has failed to produce the promised dowryMegha is sick with horror when she realizes she is the intended victim Her husband the very man who tied the sacred necklace of marriage around her neck and One sultry night, a young bride overhears an extraordinary conversation The voices speak of a plot to murder a wife who has failed to p...
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| Title | : | The Girl in the Garden |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 0446572683 |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 305 |
The redemptive journey of a young woman unsure of her engagement, who revisits in memory the events of one scorching childhood summer when her beautiful yet troubled mother spirits her away from her home to an Indian village untouched by time, where she discovers in the jungle behind her ancestral house a spellbinding garden that harbors a terrifying secret....
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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 | : | Gora |
| Author | : | |
| ISBN | : | 3491961300 |
| Format | : | |
| Number of Pages | : | 580 |
Vast in its scope and rich in thought Gora has been acclaimed as a monumental work in the history of Bengali fiction The story reflects the social, political and religious scene in Bengal at the turn of the century The forces that were operating in Bengal at that time were one of the intense nationalism and revival of ancient spiritual values and also that of liberal wes Vast in its scope and rich in thought Gora has been acclaimed as a monumental work in the history of Bengali fiction The story reflects ...
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