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One Thousand Days in a Refrigerator

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‘It took nearly five minutes for her ashes to cool down. Afterwards, someone held out a handful. “Here she is, your Lara. Take her.” The agony stuck within me like an iceberg for one thousand days shattered without warning and drowned me in a flood of tears.’A man sits before his wife lying comatose in a refrigerated chamber and tells her the thoughts he had never dared express when she was ... Read more

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‘It took nearly five minutes for her ashes to cool down. Afterwards, someone held out a handful. “Here she is, your Lara. Take her.” The agony stuck within me like an iceberg for one thousand days shattered without warning and drowned me in a flood of tears.’A man sits before his wife lying comatose in a refrigerated chamber and tells her the thoughts he had never dared express when she was
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Malgudi Days

by R. K. Narayan ...

Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennialIntroducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India "the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story." Composed of powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents ... Read more

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Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennialIntroducing this collection of stories, R. K. Narayan describes how in India "the writer has only to look out of the window to pick up a character and thereby a story." Composed of powerful, magical portraits of all kinds of people, and comprising stories written over almost forty years, Malgudi Days presents
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The Waiting Land

A Spell in Nepal

by Dervla Murphy ...

The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain cultures of the Himalayas, she is lured by the chance to work again with Tibetan refugees - this time a group of five hundred lodged in tents in the remote Pokhara valley. Once established in ... Read more

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The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain cultures of the Himalayas, she is lured by the chance to work again with Tibetan refugees - this time a group of five hundred lodged in tents in the remote Pokhara valley. Once established in
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The Artist of Disappearance

Three Novellas

by Anita Desai ...

Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction"The excellent strength [the novellas] share is a gracefulness and dreamlike sonority, reminiscent of writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and W.G. Sebald, wherein strange evolutions of solitary lives are the rule, and readers are held by the stately, hypnotic dignity of the voice that tells them." – San Francisco ChronicleSet in modern India, these three ... Read more

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Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction"The excellent strength [the novellas] share is a gracefulness and dreamlike sonority, reminiscent of writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and W.G. Sebald, wherein strange evolutions of solitary lives are the rule, and readers are held by the stately, hypnotic dignity of the voice that tells them." – San Francisco ChronicleSet in modern India, these three
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Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories

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"It is not too much to compare Mr. Narayan to Chekhov." - The New York TimesThere is no better introduction to R.K. Narayan than this remarkable collection of stories celebrating work that spans five decades. Characters include a storyteller whose magical source of tales dries up, a love-stricken husband who is told by astrologers he must sleep with a prostitute to save his dying wife, a pampered ... Read more

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"It is not too much to compare Mr. Narayan to Chekhov." - The New York TimesThere is no better introduction to R.K. Narayan than this remarkable collection of stories celebrating work that spans five decades. Characters include a storyteller whose magical source of tales dries up, a love-stricken husband who is told by astrologers he must sleep with a prostitute to save his dying wife, a pampered
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Grandparents' Bag of Stories

by Sudha Murty ...

It's 2020 and children are stuck indoors as the novel coronavirus finds its way into India. A nationwide lockdown is announced and amidst the growing crisis, Ajja and Ajji welcome their grandchildren and Kamlu Ajji into their house in Shiggaon.From stitching masks, sharing household chores, preparing food for workers to losing themselves in timeless tales, the lockdown turns into a memorable time ... Read more

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It's 2020 and children are stuck indoors as the novel coronavirus finds its way into India. A nationwide lockdown is announced and amidst the growing crisis, Ajja and Ajji welcome their grandchildren and Kamlu Ajji into their house in Shiggaon.From stitching masks, sharing household chores, preparing food for workers to losing themselves in timeless tales, the lockdown turns into a memorable time
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Chathu:The Elephant Boy

by Karoor Nilakanta PIllai & Shanta Rameshwar Rao ...

The story of Chathu, The Elephant Boy was first written and published in Malayalam. The original story was called 'Anakkaran', which means, literally, "elephant man" or mahout. It was written Karoor Nilakanta Pillai and was quite short. Shanta Rameshwar Rao found the story had immense potential for a full length adventure story. In consultation with the author, she added new characters and ... Read more

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The story of Chathu, The Elephant Boy was first written and published in Malayalam. The original story was called 'Anakkaran', which means, literally, "elephant man" or mahout. It was written Karoor Nilakanta Pillai and was quite short. Shanta Rameshwar Rao found the story had immense potential for a full length adventure story. In consultation with the author, she added new characters and
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Red Skies & Falling Stars

by Diti Sen ...

Youngest of three daughters born to a well-to-do Bengali businessman of Calcutta, Rumis idyllic and carefree childhood is divided equally between her sophisticated Calcutta home and the small, mofussil town in rural Bihar that is their holiday retreat.As the Naxalite movement is born and overtakes the city of Calcutta in the late 60s and early 70s, Rumis eldest sister gets unwittingly drawn into ... Read more

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Youngest of three daughters born to a well-to-do Bengali businessman of Calcutta, Rumis idyllic and carefree childhood is divided equally between her sophisticated Calcutta home and the small, mofussil town in rural Bihar that is their holiday retreat.As the Naxalite movement is born and overtakes the city of Calcutta in the late 60s and early 70s, Rumis eldest sister gets unwittingly drawn into
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A Compendium of Short Stories

by Jeff Tikari ...

This is a delightful collection of twenty-five crisp and intriguing short stories that will enliven and charm your leisure hours. The writer employs the 'Today-technology' of story telling: An economy of words; a simplicity of style; and a tempo and cadence that match the brisk life-style of today.All the stories have an Indian aroma and diaspora ... Read more

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This is a delightful collection of twenty-five crisp and intriguing short stories that will enliven and charm your leisure hours. The writer employs the 'Today-technology' of story telling: An economy of words; a simplicity of style; and a tempo and cadence that match the brisk life-style of today.All the stories have an Indian aroma and diaspora
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Unforgettable Kalimpong

by Monila De ...

Kalimpong was flooded with foreigners in the early fifties when China was invading Tibet. This sudden influx of foreign nationals led Pandit Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, to announce that Kalimpong was a ‘Nest of Spies’. The author, a school girl then, got the opportunity to meet and know these colourful foreigners and wrote about her interactions with them. She spent her happy childhood in ... Read more

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Kalimpong was flooded with foreigners in the early fifties when China was invading Tibet. This sudden influx of foreign nationals led Pandit Nehru, the Prime Minister of India, to announce that Kalimpong was a ‘Nest of Spies’. The author, a school girl then, got the opportunity to meet and know these colourful foreigners and wrote about her interactions with them. She spent her happy childhood in
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Love Makes the Dead Alive

Journey to a Gothic Romance

by Dinesh Singh ...

An ominous accident puts Karan, a skeptical boy, in between the Demon and the Divine. A series of mind numbing haunts sets him on a perilous journey to battle an evil power.Vasuki’s tormented soul finds Karan to quash virulent Pishach.Karan sets her soul free, but at a heavy price. He doesn’t know that Fate has unanticipated plans for him. ... Read more

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An ominous accident puts Karan, a skeptical boy, in between the Demon and the Divine. A series of mind numbing haunts sets him on a perilous journey to battle an evil power.Vasuki’s tormented soul finds Karan to quash virulent Pishach.Karan sets her soul free, but at a heavy price. He doesn’t know that Fate has unanticipated plans for him.
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Autumn Wind & Other Stories

by Lane Dunlop ...

"Lane Dunlop's translations read elegantly, and his selection of modern Japanese Stories is both fresh and persuasive." -Donald Keene, Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.The fourteen distinct voices of this collection tell fourteen very different stories spanning sixty years of twentieth-century Japanese literature. They include a nostalgic portrait ... Read more

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"Lane Dunlop's translations read elegantly, and his selection of modern Japanese Stories is both fresh and persuasive." -Donald Keene, Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.The fourteen distinct voices of this collection tell fourteen very different stories spanning sixty years of twentieth-century Japanese literature. They include a nostalgic portrait
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