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Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
A classic survival story by one of India's most acclaimed authors, set in a quiet village outside of Bombay about two siblings who struggle to maintain their family's bond in difficult times
Anita Desai’s The Village by the Sea is an exciting and moving story about life in an Indian coastal village and life in the unimaginably big city of Bombay. It is the story of thirteen-year-old Lila and her twelve-year-old...
Anita Desai’s The Village by the Sea is an exciting and moving story about life in an Indian coastal village and life in the unimaginably big city of Bombay. It is the story of thirteen-year-old Lila and her twelve-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Disappointed by his professional and social position, an entitled and officious junior civil servant imagines that his life will change when a mysterious old man promises to lead him to a museum filled with priceless treasures.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A delectable offering of the best stories written by master storytellers, including Ruskin Bond, Anita Desai, Satyajit Ray, R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth, to name a few. Each story represents the richness and range of contemporary writing for children, and is beautifully illustrated to make this truly a collector's item.
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
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Description
This Man Booker Prize finalist is a “splendid novel” about siblings and their very different lives in India and America (The Wall Street Journal).
Uma, the plain spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions—unlike her ambitious younger sister, who has made a “good” marriage and managed to escape. Meanwhile...
Uma, the plain spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions—unlike her ambitious younger sister, who has made a “good” marriage and managed to escape. Meanwhile...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1980
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bimla is a dissatisfied but ambitious teacher at a women's college who lives in her childhood home, where she cares for her mentally challenged brother, Baba. Tara is her younger, unambitious sister, married and with children of her own. Raja is their popular, brilliant, and successful brother. When Tara returns for a visit with Bimla and Baba, old memories and tensions resurface, blending into a domestic drama that leads to beautiful and profound...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
159 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eric is a newly minted historian just out of graduate school, plagued by self-doubt over both his past choices and his future options. With no clear direction, he follows his lover, Em, when she travels to the Yucatan for her scientific research, but ends up alone in this foreign place. And so he pursues his own private quest, tracing his family's history to a Mexican ghost town, where, a hundred years earlier, young Cornish miners-among them Eric's...
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1989, ©1988
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A German Jew flees Germany to live in India. After a relatively successful business career, he retires to a rather impoverished life in the company of a pack of stray cats.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xxxii, 213 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Her attempts to resolve the irreconciliable pressures of the home and world reflect the conflict in India itself, and the tragic outcome foreshadows the unrest that accompanied Partition in 1947"--
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
The life of a man born at the moment of India's independence becomes inextricably linked to that of his nation and is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirror modern India's course.
The author of The Satanic Verses creates a fascinating family saga about the birth and maturity of a land and its people--a brilliant incarnation of the human comedy. "Rushdie has achieved a magnificent and unique work of fiction".--The Philadelphia Inquirer....
15) The Post Office
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Post Office (1914) is a play by Rabindranath Tagore. Published following his ascension to international fame with the 1912 Nobel Prize in Literature, the play was introduced to an international audience by W. B. Yeats. When the Irish poet discovered Tagore's work in translation, he felt an intense kinship with a man whose work was similarly grounded in spirituality and opposition to the British Empire. Brought to Dublin's Abbey Theatre in 1913,...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (16 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
"Multilayered, subtle, insightful short stories from the inimitable Booker Prize-winning author. Nobody has written so powerfully of the relationship between and within India and the Western middle classes than Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. These stories, chosen by her surviving family, reveal her acute ability to tenderly and humorously view the situations faced by three cultures -- European, post-Independence Indian, and American. Included in these seventeen...
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 434 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have teamed up with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence an organization comprised of former Israeli soldiers who served in the occupied territories and saw firsthand...
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
©2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xviii, 404 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents reprints of articles by over fifty professional authors in which they discuss aspects of their lives as writers, drawn from throughout ten years of the "Writing Life" column of the "Washington Post."
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