Narah and the Unicorn

Narah and the Unicorn
Author: Bobby Roe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692850428

Narah and the Unicorn is a friendship story set in the deep blue sea. It explores unique creatures from all over the world while giving children an origin story for the majestic Narwhal. Being one of a kind...doesn't mean you're alone.

A Reader on the Sanskrit Grammarians

A Reader on the Sanskrit Grammarians
Author: Frits Staal
Publisher:
Total Pages: 638
Release: 1972
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

This book makes available to linguists and Sanskritists a collection of the most important articles on the Sanskrit grammarians, and provides a connected historical outline of their activities.

Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson
Author: Robert Smithson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1996-04-10
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520203853

Robert Smithson (1938-1973), one of the most important artists of his generation, produced sculpture, drawings, photographs, films, and paintings in addition to the writings collected here.

Colpetty People

Colpetty People
Author: Ashok Ferry
Publisher: Random House India
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2017-04-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 818400365X

In this extraordinary debut, Ashok Ferry chronicles, in a gently probing voice, the journeys of characters seeking something beyond the barriers of nations and generations. His tales of social-climbing Sri Lankans, of the pathos of immigration, of rich people with poor taste, of ice-cream karma, of innocent love, eternity, and more take us to Colombo’s nouveau riche, hoity-toity returnees, ladies with buttery skin and square fingernails, old-fashioned aristocrats, and the poor mortals trapped between them. Ferry’s stories comprise characters that are ‘serious and fine and upstanding, and infinitely dull’, but also others like young John-John, who loses his childhood somewhere ‘high up in the air between Asmara and Rome’; the maid, Agnes of God, whose mango-sucking teeth ‘fly out at you like bats out of the mouth of a cave’; Ashoka, the immigrant who embodies his Sri Lankan identity only on the bus ride between home and work; and Professor Jayaweera who finds sterile freedoms caged in the ‘unbending, straight lines of Western Justice’. Absurd, sad, scathing and generous, but mostly wickedly funny, Colpetty People presents modern Sri Lankans as they navigate worlds between Ceylon and the West.