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India: The Golden Jubileeby: Ian Jack
Over the past two decades India has produced a dazzling variety of new writing in English. 'India Calling' showcases some of this talent, Amit Chaudhuri and Arundhati Roy, alongside contributions from long celebrated writers such as R.K. Narayan, V.S. Naipaul, Nirad Chaudhuri and Ved Mehta. |
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Magic Seedsby: V.S. Naipaul
Willy Chandran - whom we first met in "Half a Life" - is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. Now, in his early 40s, after a peripatetic life, he succumbs to the demanding encouragement of his sister - and his own listlessness - and joins an underground movement... |
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Beastly Tales from Here and Thereby: Vikram Seth
10 witty and enchanting animal fables in verse which, like a modern Aesop's Fables, can be enjoyed by young and old alike, from the author of A Suitable Boy. |
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Shameby: Salman Rushdie
Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shared the symptoms of pregnancy, as they did everything else, inseparably. At their six breasts, Omar was warned against all feelings and nuances of shame. It was training which would prove useful when he left his mothers' fortress (via the dumb-waiter)... |
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The Wasted Vigilby: Nadeem Aslam
Nadeem Aslam's dazzling new novel takes place in modern-day Afghanistan. A Russian woman named Lara arrives at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in an old perfume factory in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. It is possible that Marcus's daughter, Zameen, may have... |
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Gently Falls the Bakulaby: Sudha Murty
Gently Falls the Bakula is the story of a marriage that loses its way as ambition and self-interest take their tolls. Written nearly three decades ago, Sudha Murty's first novel remains startlingly relevant in its scrunity of modern values and work ethics. |
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Half a Lifeby: V.S. Naipaul
In "Half a Life" we are introduced to the compelling figure of Willie Chandran. Springing from the unhappy union of a low-caste mother and a father constantly at odds with life, Willie is naively eager to find something that will place him both in and apart from the world. Drawn to England, and... |
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The Enigma of Arrivalby: V.S. Naipaul
A moving and beautiful novel of the transformation of rural England. Taking its title from the strangely frozen picture by surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, the Enigma of Arrival is the story of a young Indian from the Crown Colony of Trinidad who arrives in post-imperial England and... |
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The Mimic Menby: V.S. Naipaul
'A Tolstoyan spirit...The so-called third World has produced no more brilliant literary artist' - John Updike, "New Yorker". Born of Indian heritage, raised in the British-dependent Caribbean island of Isabella, and educated in England, forty-year-old Ralph Singh has spent a lifetime struggling... |
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Diamond Dust and Other Storiesby: Anita Desai
Whole lives come into focus in this rich and diverse collection, as Desai trains her luminous spotlight on private universes from India to Canada and New England, from Cornwall to Mexico. Her protagonists set forth on journeys and find themselves suddenly beyond the pale, or surprisingly back... |
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