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  • Lions of the Sea

    by Jessi Thind ...
    Based on a true story of a chartered Japanese steamship carrying British subjects prevented from disembarking in Canada in 1914, Lions of the Sea re-creates the voyage of the Komagata Maru through the eyes of an East Indian farmer forced, like thousands of others, to escape famine and poverty and search for prosperity. His story is one of false hopes and broken dreams, yet out of his loss and ... Read more

    $1.08 USD

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  • Difficult Daughters

    by Manju Kapur ...
    Set around the time of Partition and written with absorbing intelligence and sympathy, Difficult Daughters is the story of a young woman torn between the desire for education and the lure of illicit love.' Difficult Daughters is intensely imagined, fluidly written, moving. Through our struggles with our parents, it flings us into their own momentous times, their youthful yearnings for love and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Poovan Banana and Other Stories

    by Vaikom Muhammed Basheer(Author);Translated from Malayalam by V.Abdulla ...
    This carefully selected collection of Vaikom Muhammad Basheers short stories are characterised by a variety in theme and tone. He has enshrined in them every kind of experience from the pangs of hunger and sex to the rapture of mystic vision. Its range includes stark realistic pictures of the material world as well as the realm of fantasy haunted by ghosts and spirits. Basheer has written on love ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Song of the Bird

    by Anthony De Mello ...
    "Every one of these stories is about YOU." --Anthony de MelloEveryone loves stories; and in this book the bestselling author of Sadhana: A Way to God shares 124 stories and parables from a variety of traditions both ancient and modern. Each story resonates with life lessons that can teach us inescapable truths about ourselves and our world.De Mello's international acclaim rests on his unique ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Travelers' Tales India

    True Stories

    by James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger ...
    Series series Travelers' Tales Guides
    India is among the most difficult-and most rewarding-of places to travel. Some have said India stands for "I’ll Never Do It Again." Many more are drawn back time after time because India is the best show on earth, the best bazaar of human experiences that can be visited in a lifetime. India dissolves ideas about what it means to be alive, and its people give new meaning to compassion, perseverance ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Narcopolis

    A Novel

    by Jeet Thayil ...
    Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeWritten in poetic and affecting prose, Jeet Thayil's luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • A Compendium of Short Stories

    by Jeff Tikari ...
    This is a delightful collection of twenty-five crisp and intriguing short stories that will enliven and charm your leisure hours. The writer employs the 'Today-technology' of story telling: An economy of words; a simplicity of style; and a tempo and cadence that match the brisk life-style of today.All the stories have an Indian aroma and diaspora ... Read more

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  • River of Flesh and Other Stories

    The Prostituted Woman in Indian Short Fiction

    Edited by Ruchira Gupta ...
    River of Flesh and Other Stories brings together twenty-one stories about trafficked and prostituted women by some of India’s most celebrated writers—Amrita Pritam, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Indira Goswami, Ismat Chughtai, J. P. Das, Kamala Das, Kamleshwar, Krishan Chander, Munshi Premchand, Nabendu Ghosh, Qurratulain Hyder, Saadat Hasan Manto and Siddique Alam, among others.Jugnu, in ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Desert Places

    A Woman's Odyssey with the Wanderers of the Indian Desert

    by Robyn Davidson ...
    From the bestselling author of Tracks: A travel writer's memoir of her year with the nomadic Rabari tribe on the border between Pakistan and India.India's Thar Desert has been the home of the Rabari herders for thousands of years. In 1990, Australian Robyn Davidson, "as natural a travel writer as she is an adventurer," spent a year with the Rabari, whose livelihood is increasingly endangered by ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Amah and the Silk-Winged Pigeons

    by Jocelyn Cullity ...
    Winner of the 2018 American Bookfest Best Book Award for Historical FictionShortlisted for the 2018 GOETHE Book Awards for Post-1750s Historic FictionShortlisted for the 2018 Eric Hoffer Award Grand PrizeFinalist for the 2018 International Book Award for Historical FictionLucknow in 1856 is the most opulent city in India. If the English take it over, the royal family and centuries of rich, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Novice: Why I Became A Buddhist Monk, Why I Quit, And What I Learned

    by Stephen Schettini ...
    In this unforgettable memior, a young man finds himself disillusioned by the conventional expectations of his parents, teachers, and culture. Desperate to articulate his deepest hopes and dreams, he discards his university education and abandons home, family, and possessions to journey through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia in search of a meaningful life. Narrowly escaping death by sickness and ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Island of Blood

    Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, and Other South Asian Flashpoints

    by Anita Pratap ...
    In this distillation of frontline experiences and cultural insights, Anita Pratap, one of the finest journalists India has ever produced, faithfully reports on the consequences of war, ethnic conflict, earthquakes, cyclones, prejudices, and the mindless hatred and fear that has hurt so much of the world. Wherever there was a story to be told-from her native India to Afghanistan and Sri Lanka ... Read more

    $14.99 USD