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The Women’s Courtyard

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by Khadija Mastur ...

Aliya lives a life confined to the inner courtyard of her home with her older sister and irritable mother, while the men of the family throw themselves into the political movements of the day. She is tormented by the petty squabbles of the household and dreams of educating herself and venturing into the wider world. But Aliya must endure many trials before she achieves her goals, though at what ... Read more

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Aliya lives a life confined to the inner courtyard of her home with her older sister and irritable mother, while the men of the family throw themselves into the political movements of the day. She is tormented by the petty squabbles of the household and dreams of educating herself and venturing into the wider world. But Aliya must endure many trials before she achieves her goals, though at what
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Alice Sees Ghosts

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"A gripping saga that excavates the dark, all too human, secrets of a family straddling two continents, Alice Sees Ghosts combines cold psychological probing with deep compassion; pathos with humor." - Gitanjali Shree, International Booker Prize-winning author of Tomb of Sand"Magical, unexpected and beguiling. Finding family can take you a long way from home - but also bring you back to it in the ... Read more

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"A gripping saga that excavates the dark, all too human, secrets of a family straddling two continents, Alice Sees Ghosts combines cold psychological probing with deep compassion; pathos with humor." - Gitanjali Shree, International Booker Prize-winning author of Tomb of Sand"Magical, unexpected and beguiling. Finding family can take you a long way from home - but also bring you back to it in the
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Tomb of Sand

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by Geetanjali Shree ...

Translated by Daisy Rockwell ...

WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE"A triumph of literature."—Financial Times"Echoes of James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Isabel Allende and Leo Tolstoy. . . . An enchanting ride."—BookPage"A breath of fresh air."—GuardianA playful, feminist, and utterly original epic of Indian literature in translation, set in contemporary northern India, about a family and the inimitable oc... ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE"A triumph of literature."—Financial Times"Echoes of James Joyce, Jorge Luis Borges, Isabel Allende and Leo Tolstoy. . . . An enchanting ride."—BookPage"A breath of fresh air."—GuardianA playful, feminist, and utterly original epic of Indian literature in translation, set in contemporary northern India, about a family and the inimitable oc...
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Ploughshares Fall 2025

by Jenny Molberg, Juliana Lamy, Eric McMillan, Youssef Rakha, Daisy Rockwell, Fortunato Salazar, Heather Thompson-Brenner, Andrea Thurairatnam Imdacha, Devon Walker-Figueroa, Mary Winsor ...

The Fall 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Fall 2025 issue features longform ... Read more

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The Fall 2025 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Fall 2025 issue features longform
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Tamas

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'Tamas, in either Rockwell's translation or the original Hindi, remains an essential text for the times'Nilanjana Roy, Business Standard'Tamas is a prophetic warning against the use of religion as a weapon to gain and perpetuate political power' GOVIND NIHALANIIn a city in undivided Punjab, Nathu, a tanner, is bribed to kill a pig. When the animal's carcas... ... Read more

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'Tamas, in either Rockwell's translation or the original Hindi, remains an essential text for the times'Nilanjana Roy, Business Standard'Tamas is a prophetic warning against the use of religion as a weapon to gain and perpetuate political power' GOVIND NIHALANIIn a city in undivided Punjab, Nathu, a tanner, is bribed to kill a pig. When the animal's carcas...
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Our Friend, Art

A Family Mosaic

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**Confronting her artistic inheritance, an International Booker Prize–winning translator offers an intimate and richly illustrated meditation on language, her artist parents, and grandfather Norman RockwellThis stunningly unique memoir includes over 100 full-color photographs, paintings, and drawings, many never published before!**For Daisy Rockwell, “our friend, Art,” as her father called it, was ... Read more

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**Confronting her artistic inheritance, an International Booker Prize–winning translator offers an intimate and richly illustrated meditation on language, her artist parents, and grandfather Norman RockwellThis stunningly unique memoir includes over 100 full-color photographs, paintings, and drawings, many never published before!**For Daisy Rockwell, “our friend, Art,” as her father called it, was
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A Gujarat Here, a Gujarat There

by Krishna Sobti ...

Translated by Daisy Rockwell ...

Delhi, 1947. The city surges with Partition refugees. Eager to escape the welter of pain and confusion that surrounds her, young Krishna applies on a whim to a position at a preschool in the princely state of Sirohi, itself on the cusp of transitioning into the republic of India. She is greeted on arrival with condescension for her refugee status, and treated with sexist disdain by Zutshi Sahib, ... Read more

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Delhi, 1947. The city surges with Partition refugees. Eager to escape the welter of pain and confusion that surrounds her, young Krishna applies on a whim to a position at a preschool in the princely state of Sirohi, itself on the cusp of transitioning into the republic of India. She is greeted on arrival with condescension for her refugee status, and treated with sexist disdain by Zutshi Sahib,
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The Women's Courtyard

by Khadija Mastur, Daisy Rockwell ...

Translated by Daisy Rockwell ...

**A feminist classic of Partition literature in a newly revised translation by Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy Rockwell.A Penguin Classic**Set in the turbulent decade of 1940s India, The Women's Courtyard illuminates a unique perspective on the Partition. The novel follows the struggles of a Muslim family from the perspective of the youngest daughter, Aliya, during the years that lead to ... Read more

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**A feminist classic of Partition literature in a newly revised translation by Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy Rockwell.A Penguin Classic**Set in the turbulent decade of 1940s India, The Women's Courtyard illuminates a unique perspective on the Partition. The novel follows the struggles of a Muslim family from the perspective of the youngest daughter, Aliya, during the years that lead to
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Our City That Year

A Novel

by Geetanjali Shree ...

Translated by Daisy Rockwell ...

“I highlighted just about every line in this book, and I can’t think of a better novel to make sense of our current era.” —Molly Odintz, CrimeReadsFrom the International Booker Prize-winning author-translator duo of Tomb of Sand, a powerful, kaleidoscopic novel about a fractured society, loosely based on the gathering violence that eventuated in the demolition of the Babri Mosque by religious ... Read more

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“I highlighted just about every line in this book, and I can’t think of a better novel to make sense of our current era.” —Molly Odintz, CrimeReadsFrom the International Booker Prize-winning author-translator duo of Tomb of Sand, a powerful, kaleidoscopic novel about a fractured society, loosely based on the gathering violence that eventuated in the demolition of the Babri Mosque by religious
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Tamas

by Bhisham Sahni ...

Translated by Daisy Rockwell ...

**An essential novel about the 1947 Partition in a newly revised translation by Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy RockwellA Penguin Classic**Bhisham Sahni’s 1973 novel is a chronicle of the sectarian violence that ultimately led to the devastation of the Partition. It drew immediate and universal critical acclaim for its poignant and striking depiction of the anatomy of a bloody conflagration ... Read more

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**An essential novel about the 1947 Partition in a newly revised translation by Booker Prize-winning translator Daisy RockwellA Penguin Classic**Bhisham Sahni’s 1973 novel is a chronicle of the sectarian violence that ultimately led to the devastation of the Partition. It drew immediate and universal critical acclaim for its poignant and striking depiction of the anatomy of a bloody conflagration
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All This and More

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by Peng Shepherd ...

From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Cartographers and The Book of M comes an inventive new speculative fiction novel about a woman who wins the chance to rewrite every mistake she’s ever made… and how far she’ll go to find her elusive “happily ever after.” But there’s a twist: the reader gets to decide what she does next to change her fate.One woman. Endless options. Every ... Read more

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From the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of The Cartographers and The Book of M comes an inventive new speculative fiction novel about a woman who wins the chance to rewrite every mistake she’s ever made… and how far she’ll go to find her elusive “happily ever after.” But there’s a twist: the reader gets to decide what she does next to change her fate.One woman. Endless options. Every
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By Night in Chile

by Roberto Bolaño ...

Translated by Chris Andrews ...

“Extraordinary . . . [Bolaño’s] greatest work.” —James Wood, The New York Times Book Review“A marvelous river of feeling, a brilliant meditation, an enthralling fantasy—By Night in Chile is the real thing, and the rarest: a contemporary novel destined to have a permanent place in world literature.” —Susan SontagThe book that catapulted Roberto Bolaño into international literary stardom, By Night ... Read more

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“Extraordinary . . . [Bolaño’s] greatest work.” —James Wood, The New York Times Book Review“A marvelous river of feeling, a brilliant meditation, an enthralling fantasy—By Night in Chile is the real thing, and the rarest: a contemporary novel destined to have a permanent place in world literature.” —Susan SontagThe book that catapulted Roberto Bolaño into international literary stardom, By Night
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