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  • In Times of Siege

    A Novel

    by Githa Hariharan ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    At 52, Shiv Murthy is a New Delhi professor of history. He leads a mild, unremarkable life until, while his wife is away, things spin out of control. First, the young and passionate daughter of an old friend breaks her leg and moves in with him. Even as he struggles to care for Meena and ignore his increasing attraction to her, a group of religious extremists challenges one of his lessons on ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The View from Here

    Stories and Poems of Many Indias

    by Githa Hariharan, K Satchidanandan ...
    ‘The erudite Kannada scholar and critic D. R. Nagaraj wrote, “To read fiction is to know the fate of a society through its metaphors. But quite often literatureconsciously takes upon itself the responsibility of exploring the state and fate of this society…” This is precisely what the stories in this collection do: theymay speak of past and present, but really it is the future—that we fear and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Almost Home

    Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York

    by Githa Hariharan ...
    “In essays that bespeak a thoroughly cosmopolitan sensibility, Githa Hariharan not only takes us on illuminating tours through cities rich in history, but gives a voice to urban people from all over the world—Kashmir, Palestine, Delhi—trying to live with basic human dignity under circumstances of dire repression or crushing poverty.” —JM CoetzeeWhat does a medieval city in South India have in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Almost Home

    Finding a Place in the World from Kashmir to New York

    by Githa Hariharan ...
    What does a medieval city in South India have in common with Washington, D.C.? How do people in Kashmir envision the freedom they long for? To whom does Delhi, city of grand monuments and hidden slums, actually belong? And what makes a city, or any place, home? In ten intricately wrought essays, renowned author Githa Hariharan takes readers on an eye-opening journey across time and place, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • A Place Within

    Rediscovering India

    by M.G. Vassanji ...
    **A Globe and Mail Best BookThe inimitable M.G. Vassanji turns his eye to India, the homeland of his ancestors, in this powerfully moving tale of family and country. Part travelogue, part history, A Place Within is M.G. Vassanji’s intelligent and beautifully written journey to explore where he belongs.**It would take many lifetimes, it was said to me during my first visit, to see all of India. The ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Lowland

    National Book Award Finalist; Man Booker Prize Finalist

    by Jhumpa Lahiri ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    National Book Award FinalistShortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker PrizeFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of The Namesake comes an extraordinary new novel, set in both India and America, that expands the scope and range of one of our most dazzling storytellers: a tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Difficult Daughters

    by Manju Kapur ...
    Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love.' Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Age of Kali

    Travels and Encounters in India (Text Only)

    by William Dalrymple ...
    William Dalrymple, who wrote so magically about India in ‘City of Djinns’, returns to the country in a series of remarkable essays.Featured in its pages are 15-year-old guerrilla girls and dowager Maharanis; flashy Bombay drinks parties and violent village blood feuds; a group of vegetarian terrorists intent on destroying India’s first Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet; and a palace where port and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Poovan Banana and Other Stories

    by Vaikom Muhammed Basheer(Author);Translated from Malayalam by V.Abdulla ...
    This carefully selected collection of Vaikom Muhammad Basheers short stories are characterised by a variety in theme and tone. He has enshrined in them every kind of experience from the pangs of hunger and sex to the rapture of mystic vision. Its range includes stark realistic pictures of the material world as well as the realm of fantasy haunted by ghosts and spirits. Basheer has written on love ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River

    The Story of a River

    by Alice Albinia ...
    “Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory StewartOne of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Holy Cow

    An Indian Adventure

    by Sarah Macdonald ...
    In her twenties, journalist Sarah Macdonald backpacked around India and came away with a lasting impression of heat, pollution and poverty. So when an airport beggar read her palm and told her she would return to India—and for love—she screamed, “Never!” and gave the country, and him, the finger.But eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah’s life is posted to India, she ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Island of a Thousand Mirrors

    A Novel

    by Nayomi Munaweera ...
    Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything they could ask for. As a child in idyllic Colombo, Yasodhara's and her siblings' lives are shaped by social hierarchies, their parents' ambitions, teenage love and, subtly, the differences between Tamil ... Read more

    $17.99 USD