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Author | : Nandini Gupta |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2021-10-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9789389995763 |
Get up. Go to work. Report on a few news stories. Walk back home. Have dinner with grandparents. Sleep. Repeat. Laila's everyday to-do list was not exactly exciting. An ordinary girl with a bad temper and boisterous but beautiful curls, Laila led a mundane life in Lahore, Pakistan. Until she landed in Udaipur, India, the neighboring but rival nation, to pursue a feature story. Royal tales, historic festivities, and a vibrant culture that confirmed she was far away from home, Laila met many strangers on her journey. One of them was Gulab. As her visit drew to an end, it became clear that Laila's life intersected with Gulab's in tragic and irreversible ways. Secrets unveiled as she uncovered realities of the blood-soaked partition, gut-wrenching atrocities, and a past she never knew she had.
Author | : John Zubrzycki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-03-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781787389595 |
A gripping royal saga of charmed lives in a changing world. The Jaipurs were India's mid-century golden couple; its answer to the Kennedys, or Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Jai and Ayesha, as they were known to friends like Frank Sinatra, Truman Capote and 'Dickie' Mountbatten, entertained lavishly at their magnificent palaces and hunting lodges in Rajasthan--and in the nightclubs of London, Paris and New York. But as the Raj gave way to the new India, Jaipur--the most glamorous and romantic of the princely states--had to find its place. The House of Jaipur charts a dynasty's determination to remain relevant in a democracy set on crushing its privileges. Against the odds, they secured their place at the height of Indian society; but Ayesha would pay for her criticism of Indira Gandhi during the Emergency. From the polo field and politics to imprisonment and personal tragedy, the Jaipurs' extraordinary journey of transformation mirrors the story of a rapidly changing country.
Author | : Alexander Chee |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 573 |
Release | : 2016-02-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0544106601 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER, New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and a Best Book of the Year from NPR, Boston Globe, BuzzFeed, and others. The mesmerizing story of one woman's rise from circus rider to courtesan to world-renowned diva—"a brilliant performance" (Washington Post). The Queen of the Night tells the captivating story of Lilliet Berne, an orphan who left the American frontier for Europe and was swept into the glamour and terror of Second Empire France. She became a sensation of the Paris Opera, with every accolade but an original role—her chance at immortality. When one is offered to her, she finds the libretto is based on her deepest secret, something only four people have ever known. But who betrayed her? With epic sweep, gorgeous language, and haunting details, Alexander Chee shares Lilliet’s cunning transformation from circus rider to courtesan to legendary soprano, retracing the path that led to the role that could secure her reputation—or destroy her with the secrets it reveals. “It just sounds terrific. It sounds like opera.”—The New Yorker “Sprawling, soaring, bawdy, and plotted like a fine embroidery.”—NPR
Author | : Nandini Das |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 110861681X |
Bringing together original contributions from scholars across the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.
Author | : N. A. Davenport |
Publisher | : Fairies of Titania |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2020-05-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781733859561 |
When ten-year-old Amy discovers an injured fairy in her grandmother's barn, she learns that magic is real, and she's determined to find a cure to save her father's life. Venturing through the door to Titania, it's soon clear that all is not well in the land of fairies, and her quest is not nearly as simple as she thought.
Author | : Nandini Saraf |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: The Life and Times of Lokmanya Tilak The Life and Times of Madam Bhikaji Cama The Life and Times of Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Author | : Stephen Donaldson |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2013-10-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 147320254X |
Thomas Covenant returns unwillingly to a Land ravaged by four thousand years of Lord Foul's pestilence. Under the evil Sunbane, the people of the Land submit to cruel sacrifices; the rulers of Revelstone are corrupt, the fields and forests laid waste; the healing Earth-power impotent. Accompanied by a woman from his own world, Covenant begins a new quest to save the Land from the forces that have all but destroyed it.
Author | : Gaiutra Bahadur |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2013-11-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 022604338X |
Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize: “[Bahadur] combines her journalistic eye for detail and story-telling gifts with probing questions . . . a haunting portrait.” —The Independent In 1903, a young woman sailed from India to Guiana as a “coolie” —the British name for indentured laborers who replaced the newly emancipated slaves on sugar plantations all around the world. Pregnant and traveling alone, this woman, like so many coolies, disappeared into history. Now, in Coolie Woman, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past to find her. Traversing three continents and trawling through countless colonial archives, Gaiutra Bahadur excavates not only her great-grandmother’s story but also the repressed history of some quarter of a million other coolie women, shining a light on their complex lives. Shunned by society, and sometimes in mortal danger, many coolie women were runaways, widows, or outcasts. Many left husbands and families behind to migrate alone in epic sea voyages—traumatic “middle passages” —only to face a life of hard labor, dismal living conditions, and, especially, sexual exploitation. As Bahadur explains, however, it is precisely their sexuality that makes coolie women stand out as figures in history. Greatly outnumbered by men, they were able to use sex with their overseers to gain various advantages, an act that often incited fatal retaliations from coolie men and sometimes larger uprisings of laborers against their overlords. Complex and unpredictable, sex was nevertheless a powerful tool. Examining this and many other facets of these remarkable women’s lives, Coolie Woman is a meditation on survival, a gripping story of a double diaspora—from India to the West Indies in one century, Guyana to the United States in the next—that is at once a search for roots and an exploration of gender and power, peril and opportunity.
Author | : Hosam Mohamed Aboul-Ela |
Publisher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2018-08-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0810137518 |
Domestications traces a genealogy of American global engagement with the Global South since World War II. Hosam Aboul-Ela reads American writers contrapuntally against intellectuals from the Global South in their common—yet ideologically divergent—concerns with hegemony, world domination, and uneven development. Using Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism as a model, Aboul-Ela explores the nature of U.S. imperialism’s relationship to literary culture through an exploration of five key terms from the postcolonial bibliography: novel, idea, perspective, gender, and space. Within this framework the book examines juxtapositions including that of Paul Bowles’s Morocco with North African intellectuals’ critique of Orientalism, the global treatment of Vietnamese liberation movements with the American narrative of personal trauma in the novels of Tim O’Brien and Hollywood film, and the war on terror’s philosophical idealism with Korean and post-Arab nationalist materialist archival fiction. Domestications departs from other recent studies of world literature in its emphases not only on U.S. imperialism but also on intellectuals working in the Global South and writing in languages other than English and French. Although rooted in comparative literature, its readings address issues of key concern to scholars in American studies, postcolonial studies, literary theory, and Middle Eastern studies.
Author | : Sushil Kapoor |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 8-08-22 |
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