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  • One Thousand Days in a Refrigerator

    Stories

    Traducido por Snehaprava Das ...
    ‘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 ... Leer más

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  • Malgudi Days

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Waiting Land

    A Spell in Nepal

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Grandmother's Tale and Selected Stories

    de R. K. Narayan ...
    "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 ... Leer más

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  • Sorcerer's Apprentice

    An Incredible Journey into the World of India's Godmen

    de Tahir Shah ...
    Sorcerer’s Apprentice is the amazing story of Shah’s apprenticeship to one of India’s master conjurers, Hakim Feroze, and his initiation into the brotherhood of Indian godmen. Told with self-deprecating wit, panache, and an eye for the outlandish, it is an account of a magical journey across India. Feroze teaches the author the basics of his craft, such as sleights of hand, immersing his hands in ... Leer más

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  • Grandparents' Bag of Stories

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Chathu:The Elephant Boy

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Desert Places

    A Woman's Odyssey with the Wanderers of the Indian Desert

    From the bestselling author of Tracks: A travel writer's memoir of her year with the nomadic Rabari tribe on the border between Pakistan and India.India's Thar Desert has been the home of the Rabari herders for thousands of years. In 1990, Australian Robyn Davidson, "as natural a travel writer as she is an adventurer," spent a year with the Rabari, whose livelihood is increasingly endangered by ... Leer más

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  • Dancing Girl of Indus

    The Indus Valley civilization is one of the oldest civilizations of the world, beginning in an area which is now part of the province of Sindh in Pakistan. Dating back five thousand years, Mohenjo-Daro was considered its biggest city.While the Indian subcontinent is full of ancient tombs and fallen temples, Mohenjo-Daro was only discovered in 1911. It was a well-planned city with houses possessing ... Leer más

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  • Red Skies & Falling Stars

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • A Compendium of Short Stories

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Unforgettable Kalimpong

    de 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 ... Leer más

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