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“aa madhavan”

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  • Sacred Talons

    by Aa. Madhavan, RAMAKRISHNAN V. ...
    A DECEPTIVELY SIMPLE NARRATIVE OF PIETY, LOVE AND LOYALTY.Guruswamy - bearded, book-rich and quietly devout - has turned his ancestral land into a place of refuge; a thatched Devi temple, a coconut grove, and a string of neighbours who lean on him for shelter, livelihood and hope. In a changing world of political activism, workers' unions and shifting loyalties, he takes under his wings a young ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Waiting Land

    A Spell in Nepal

    by 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 ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • House of Snow

    An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal

    Edited by Ellen Parnavelas ...
    A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people.'If you want a book in English that tells you about Nepalese thinking, and gives a taste of the country's contemporary literature, you could hardly do better than House of Snow' Daily Telegraph'One of the finest books I have read this year' Nudge Books'A ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The Artist of Disappearance

    Three Novellas

    by Anita Desai ...
    Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction"The excellent strength [the novellas] share is a gracefulness and dreamlike sonority, reminiscent of writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and W.G. Sebald, wherein strange evolutions of solitary lives are the rule, and readers are held by the stately, hypnotic dignity of the voice that tells them." – San Francisco ChronicleSet in modern India, these three ... Read more

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  • The Archer

    by Shruti Swamy ...
    “Set in 1970s Bombay, the novel explores art, ambition, gender roles and class with the same shimmering prose of Swamy’s first book, the story collection A House Is a Body.”**—**San Francisco Chronicle“[A] sublime, boundary-pushing exploration of sexuality, creativity, and love.”—NPRIn this transfixing novel, a young woman comes of age in 1960s- and 1970s-era Bombay, a vanished world that is ... ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Sandal Trees & Other Stories

    by Kamala Das(Author) ...
    This is the first collection of translations in English of stories originally written in Malayalam by Kamala Das under the pen name Madhavi Kutty. They amply demonstrate Kamala Dass special contribution to the short story in Malayalam. All the major attributes of her writing are evident: her subtlety and power in dealing with human relationships and intrigues of love, life and death and her ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • In The Shadow of Crows

    by David Charles Manners ...
    When Bindra contracts leprosy, she is driven from her home in the Himalayan foothills with her two small sons and embarks upon a seemingly impossible course in search of salvation. David's first journey to India is driven by devastating loss, and yet he finds unexepected solace in the discovery of an exceptional family legacy, and insights offered by an unorthodox mountain tradition. As these ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Beauty of Life

    Krishnamurti's Journal

    by Jiddu Krishnamurti ...
    The final writings by the world-famous spiritual teacher J Krishnamurti, in which he reflects to himself on the natural world around him and what this might tell us about human consciousness. Includes previously unpublished material.Most of Krishnamurti's books are transcriptions from the many talks he gave. This book however contains short pieces from his notebooks, which are heartfelt and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Sakina's Kiss

    by Vivek Shanbhag ...
    Translated by Srinath Perur ...
    A taut story of hidden violence and self-deception from “an Indian Chekhov” (Suketu Mehta)An upper-middle class couple in Bangalore, Venkat and Viji, find their quiet life upended—and the flaws in their marriage exposed—when two strange young men come knocking at their door in the middle of the night, claiming to have business with their daughter, Rekha, a college senior who happens to be visiting ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • English, August: An Indian Story

    by Upamanyu Chatterjee ...
    Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, "the hottest town in India," deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, and crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, ... Read more

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  • Jorasanko

    by Aruna Chakravarti ...
    A sensitive portrayal ofthe hopes and fears,triumphs and defeatsexperienced by thewomen of the Tagorehousehold. in a sprawling novel that spans a unique phase in the history of Bengal and India, Aruna Chakravarti provides a fascinating Iaccount of how the Tagore women influenced and were in turn influenced by their illustrious male counterparts, the times they lived in and the family they belonged ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Better Man

    A Novel

    by Anita Nair ...
    A magical, inventive novel about one man's struggle to find his place in the small Indian village of his birthIn Anita Nair's warm and imaginative first novel, middle-aged Acuthan Nair returns home to restore his childhood house and to confront old ghosts. When he begins the project, he hires the town painter, One-Screw-Loose Bhasi, to oversee the renovation, and the two men quickly develop a ... Read more

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