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  • The Thing About Thugs

    de Tabish Khair ...
    A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian man’s misadventures in Victorian London as the city is racked by a series of murdersIn a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research back home: Amir Ali, confessed member of the infamous Thugee cult. With tales of a murderous youth redeemed, Ali gains passage to England, his villainously ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion

    With a new essay on Satyajit Ray by Amitav Ghosh

    de Tabish Khair ...
    Looking back now, I am more than ever aware of the part that [Satyajit] Ray played in shaping the imaginary universe of my childhood and youth. I see this even in such details as my interest in science and science fiction; in ghost stories and the fantastical…When I saw Agantuk [The Stranger], in which the main character is an anthropologist, I began to wonder whether my interest in anthropology ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Just Another Jihadi Jane

    A Novel Excerpt

    de Tabish Khair, Ulvija Tanović ...
    Series Libro 6 - Working Titles
    JUST ANOTHER JIHADI JANE follows the radicalization of two young girls growing up in a working-class Muslim neighborhood in the UK. Ameena and Jamilla become close followers of a Jihadi matron deeply involved in the Syrian insurrection—serving a cause they believe has been distorted by Western media. The girls slowly realize that their new reality is a narrow, brutal universe apart from the one ... Leer más

    $1.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Filles du djihad

    de Tabish Khair ...
    Traducido por David Fauquemberg ...
    Series series La grande collection
    Ce roman donne à comprendre les rouages de la radicalisation, du recrutement et du basculement dans l'extrémisme dans une langue simple, imagée, pleine d'esprit et d'humour – aussi surprenant que cela puisse paraître étant donné la gravité du sujet. Il permet également – chose rare – d'aborder le mal-être des musulmans pratiquants en Europe, face à une société sécularisée.Deux adolescentes, dans ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Literature Against Fundamentalism

    de Tabish Khair ...
    Series series The Literary Agenda
    Acclaimed novelist and academic Tabish Khair argues that literature as a distinct mode of thinking can counteract fundamentalism. Literature is a mode of thinking, stories being one of the oldest thinking 'devices' known to humankind. The ways in which literature enables us to think are distinctive and necessary, because of the relationships between its material ('language') and its subject matter ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Lugar Marcado

    de Tabish Khair ...
    Series series CLIO - Literatura Contemporânea
    O passado, o presente e a incerteza do futuro, entrelaçados no interior de uma camioneta, são passageiros a caminho de um destino que todos sabem ser transitório, mas que poderia ser também final. É um deambular de pensamentos, de impressões e de situações que variam entre o cómico, o trivial e o trágico — todo o leque de emoções da humanidade. É uma viagem através das várias dimensões da alma, ... Leer más

    $9.89 USD

  • How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position

    A Novel

    de Tabish Khair ...
    A HILARIOUS, SATIRICAL NOVEL FROM AWARD-WINNING INDIAN WRITER. Funny and sad, satirical and humane, this novel tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men whose trajectories cross in Denmark: the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim, and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator. As the unnamed narrator copes with his divorce, and Ravi—despite his exterior of skeptical ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Migrant Cartographies

    New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe

    de Angelika Bammer, Rosemarie Buikema, Theo D'Haen, Robert Fraser, Paul Gilroy, Stephen Gundle, Alec Hargreaves, Graham Huggan, Ena Jansen, Tabish Khair, Lourdes Lopez-Ropero, John McLeod, Pamela Pattynama, Mineke Schipper, Meyda Yegenoglu ...
    In recent years, Europe has had to constantly rethink and redefine its attitude toward new flows of immigrations. Issues of boundaries and identity have been integral to this reflection. Through a magnificent collection of essays, Migrant Cartographies examines both sites and conflicts and the way in which forms of belonging and identity have been reinvented. With careful analysis and exceptional ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Apaiser la poussière

    de Tabish Khair ...
    Series series La grande collection
    Mangal Singh, écrivain raté, chauffeur d'autocar sur la ligne Gaya-Phansa, deux villes de l'État indien du Bihar, ressasse son amertume et observe les passagers embarqués ce jour-là. Parmi eux, Fadarah l'eunuque, qui aspire à une nouvelle existence, un homme d'affaires angoissé, une matriarche hindoue convaincue de sa supériorité sociale, un jeune garçon qui rentre dans son village après avoir ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Comment lutter contre le terrorisme islamiste dans la position du missionnaire

    de Tabish Khair ...
    Traducido por Antonia Breteuil ...
    Series series La grande collection
    Dans ce roman audacieux, Tabish Khair met en lumière, avec humour et vivacité, la mince frontière entre foi et fanatisme, jugement et préjugé, destin individuel et histoire collective.Aarhus, au Danemark. Le narrateur, un Pakistanais athée et pragmatique, vit en colocation avec Ravi, un Indien flamboyant et sceptique, et Karim, Indien lui aussi, qui partage son temps entre son travail de chauffeur ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Bus Stopped

    de Tabish Khair ...
    A very angry bus driver, abandoned by his wife and going nowhere in his career; a sanctimonious conductor; a hijra, or eunuch, a remnant of India's Muslim glory days; a nervous, half-Indian businessman clutching a briefcase-full of cash; a right-wing Hindu matriarch; a young boy returning to his village after robbing his employer . . . They meet – and witness a tragic event – only because they are ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Filming

    de Tabish Khair ...
    Set primarily in India and spanning the twentieth century, Filming tells a series of stories, including that of one-time prostitute Durga, who is persuaded to give away her young son, Ashok, and that of Saleem, the son of a prostitute and two-times star of the silver screen. As these stories intertwine and overlap, they combine to create a novel that is simultaneously about the small details and ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD