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  • City Fictions of the New India

    Literature, Infrastructure, Citizenship

    par Alex Tickell ...
    How does Indian fiction imagine urban transformation? India's cities were once maligned as places of economic stasis and deprivation but in the era of the so-called New India (2000-present) centres like Delhi and Mumbai have been recast as 'engines of economic growth' and reshaped by prestige infrastructure. Yet the provision of core infrastructures for all remains a major challenge for urban ... En savoir plus

    $92.29 CAD

  • Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

    A Routledge Study Guide

    par Alex Tickell ...
    Collections series Routledge Guides to Literature
    On publication Arundhati Roy's first novel The God of Small Things (1997) rapidly became an international bestseller, winning the Booker Prize and creating a new space for Indian literature and culture within the arts, even as it courted controversy and divided critical opinion.This guide to Roy’s ground-breaking novel offers:an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of The God of Small ... En savoir plus

    $46.99 CAD

  • Delhi: New Literatures of the Megacity

    Modifié par Alex Tickell, Ruvani Ranasinha ...
    In this book, leading scholars working on urban South Asia chart new forms of literature about contemporary Delhi.Incorporating original contributions by Delhi-based commentators and covering significant new themes and genres, it updates current critical understanding of how contemporary literature has registered the momentous economic and social forces reshaping India’s major cities. This timely ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • South-Asian Fiction in English

    Contemporary Transformations

    Modifié par Alex Tickell ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection offers an essential, structured survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and includes specially commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions of the region. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and ... En savoir plus

    $115.29 CAD

  • Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947

    par Alex Tickell ...
    Collections series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis moments in the history of British colonial rule such as the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta, the anti-thug campaigns of the 1830s, the 1857 Rebellion, anti-colonial terrorism in Edwardian London and the ... En savoir plus

    $114.04 CAD

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  • The Second Jungle Book

    Join Mowgli in his Most Action Packed Adventure Yet

    par Rudyard Kipling ...
    Collections Livre 6 - Rudyard Kipling Collection
    The tales in The Second Jungle Book includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. "How Fear Came": This story takes place before Mowgli fights Shere Khan. During a drought, Mowgli and the animals gather at a shrunken river for a 'water truce', during which Hathi the elephant tells the story of how the first tiger got his ... En savoir plus

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  • 9 Gold Bullets

    Vincent Calvino Crime Novels, #12

    par HeavenLakePress, Christopher G. Moore ...
    Collections Livre 12 - Vincent Calvino Crime Novels
    In 9 Gold Bullets, the twelfth novel in Christopher G. Moore's Shamus Award-winning Vincent Calvino noir detective series, a priceless collection of gold bullet coins from the reign of Rama V has vanished—along with a prominent Thai collector. When Bangkok police trace a link to Calvino's childhood friend Josh Stein, now ensnared by a ruthless Russian client, the case draws Calvino into a web of ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Tinderbox

    The Past and Future of Pakistan

    par M.J. Akbar ...
    “Among many recent books on Pakistan, Mr. Akbar’s stands out….A fine and detailed history of Indian Muslim anger and insecurity.”—The EconomistIn Tinderbox, India’s leading journalist delivers a fascinating narrative history of Pakistan, chronicling the conflict between Muslim and Hindu cultures in South Asia and describing the role that their relationship has played in defining both the country ... En savoir plus

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  • Tales of Moonlight and Rain

    par Akinari Ueda ...
    Traduit par Anthony Chambers ...
    First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were also the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's brilliant 1953 film Ugetsu.The title Ugetsu monogatari ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • Almond Eyes, Lotus Feet

    Indian Traditions in Beauty and Health

    par Sharada Dwivedi, Shalini Devi Holkar ...
    The Indian bestseller. "A delightful pot-pourri of a book . . . far more than just a beauty book for women, it is also a repository of Indian culture." —Charles Allen, internationally bestselling author of Plain Tales from the RajAlmond Eyes, Lotus Feet is the fictional memoir of a wise Indian princess, who recalls the ways the women of the Indian court found friendship, faith, and love through ... En savoir plus

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  • The Taste of Apples

    Traduit par Howard Goldblatt ...
    par Huang Huang Chun-ming ...
    Collections series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections reveal his genius.In "The Two Sign Painters," TV reporters ambush two young workers from the ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Humanitarian Ethics

    A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster

    par Hugo Slim ...
    Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and military authorities and non-state actors to let an agency assist on the ground requires savvy ethical skills. Getting first to a conflict or ... En savoir plus

    $26.39 CAD