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Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : India
ISBN : 9788122200850
This book is the story of a young girl obsessed by a childhood prophecy of disaster. The author builds up an atmosphere of tension and oppression, in the middle of an Indian summer.
Author : Gina B. Nahai
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743403375
Peacock is jailed in Iran by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard. While in prison she recounts her remarkable 116 year life to her fellow inmates.
Author : Vishal Suchak
Publisher : Shriniketan Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789354070334
Exacting a terrible price, the nuclear apocalypse divided humankind into two: Mutated and Untainted. Kilia & Josh, child counselors for the United Nations, are tasked with telling this horrible truth to tween-agers. Yet forced to lie about their own feelings for each other. Despite the UN’s efforts, life is harsh for Mutants and an underground resistance has sprung to life in the Quarantine Zone. Untainted humans living in the safety and comfort of a terrarium, most of them migrant volunteers, remain blissfully unaware of things to come. Under the watchful eyes of the Chief Administrator, life at the UN mission in Diablo Valley unfolds in mundane quietude. But then, the universe begins to conspire. Paying homage to counterculture, The Carol of the Reactors blends scifi, suspense and philosophy in the dystopia of an alternate reality. Laced with pop-culture, real world contemporary and historical references, this novel speculates on the future of humanity in the face of climate change, our dependence on technology and the fears that accompany it.
Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8122200850
This book is the story of a young girl obsessed by a childhood prophecy of disaster. The author builds up an atmosphere of tension and oppression, in the middle of an Indian summer.
Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184003260
Gone are the days when Nanda Kaul watched over her family and played the part of Vice-Chancellor’s wife. Leaving her children behind in the real world, the busier world, she has chosen to spend her last years alone in the mountains in Kasauli, in a secluded bungalow called Carignano. Until one summer her great-granddaughter Raka is dispatched to Kasauli – and everything changes. Nanda is at first dismayed at this break in her preciously acquired solitude. Fiercely taciturn, Raka is, like her, quite untamed. The girl prefers the company of apricot trees and animals to her great-grandmother’s, and spends her afternoons rambling over the mountainside. But the two are more alike than they know. Throughout the hot, long summer, Nanda’s old, hidden dependencies and wounds come to the surface, ending, inevitably, in tragedy. Marvellous yet restrained, Fire on the Mountain speaks of the past and its unshakable hold over the present.
Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788122200539
Based on the life of the middle class intellectuals of Calcutta, it is an unforgettable story of a Bohemian brother and his two sisters caught in the cross-currents of changing social values. In many ways the story reflects a vivid picture of India's social transition - a phase in which the older elements are not altogether dead, and the emergent ones not fully evolved.
Author : Kajali Sharma
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8170172837
Author : Paul Doherty
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472233653
With Ranulf's life at stake, can Sir Hugh hope to save him? An exclusive digital novella featuring Sir Hugh Corbett, the medieval sleuth of acclaimed historian Paul Doherty's most popular series. Includes an exclusive extract from the eighteenth Corbett novel Dark Serpent. Perfect for fans of Susanna Gregory and Ellis Peters It is 1311 and England seethes with unrest. Sir Hugh Corbett, former keeper of the Secret Seal, has been absent from royal service for over six years. Content to live a life more relaxed with his wife and children in the country Corbett has enjoyed his time away from the machinations of court and the secrets men will kill to keep. But a visit from his new King, Edward II, brings about change. His former protégé, Ranulf Atte-Newgate, now Senior Clerk in the Chancery, has been implicated in the death of a young novice, and Edward has made it clear that Corbett must resume his post and solve the case if Ranulf is not to hang for the murder... Corbett knows that resuming his post will bring him to the fore of Edward's political machinations but with Ranulf's life at stake, does Corbett have any choice but to accept the Seal once more? What readers are saying about Paul Doherty: 'Doherty manages to build in plot twists and misdirection and the whole thing moves at a tremendous pace to the final conclusion' 'A magical author' 'Master storytelling from one of the best authors'
Author : Nono Kgafela-Mokoka,Daniel Koketso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3346042626
Author : Karuna Sivasailam
Publisher : unisun publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8188234230
Features twelve poets on a single theme, India and things that evoke our land and the myriad of different ways to live and die.
Author : Ashvin Desai
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780595425327
Between Eternities interweaves the assertions of Science, Philosophy, Religion and Mysticism on the fundamental issues that underlie the universe and life, allowing a reader to find a meaning. "This is a book about life in various dimensions, considering the questions from the scientific (physical and biological) to the religious to the philosophical to the mystical to the literary and artistic viewpoints. There is immense erudition, but it is worn lightly This is definitely an exceptional work." Jayati Ghosh, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi "Well Written, full of information, compendious in its sketch of the world from the view point of the sciences, and successful in its endeavour to make complex martial accessible in an comprehensible by the general reader." Professor A. C. Grayling, University of London "Highly impressed with the author's grasp of scientific and philosophical theories mastery of such an array of complex subjects almost awe inspiring at times issues are more than merely thought provoking; they are both challenging and far reaching." Marie Evans, Macmillan, London
Author : Anita Desai
Publisher : Orient Paperbacks
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788122207057
Written in vivid narrative and chiselled prose, Bye-Bye Blackbird explores the lives of the outsiders seeking to forge a new identity in an alien society. Set against England's green and grisly landscape, enigmatic and attractive to some, depressing and nauseating to others, it is a story of everyday heroism against subtle oppression, crumbling traditions and homesickness. 'Characters grow with life, the scenes are delicately painted and the nuances of changing mood skilfully transmitted.' — Hindu 'More than a novel, it is a psychological study of the love-hate relationship the immigrants have towards their country of adoption.' — Indian Express
Author : Lisa Gornick
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780374718497
From “one of the most perceptive, compassionate writers of fiction in America...immensely talented and brave” (Michael Schaub, NPR), a historical saga about love, class, and the past we never escape. The Peacock Feast opens on a June day in 1916 when Louis C. Tiffany, the eccentric glass genius, dynamites the breakwater at Laurelton Hall—his fantastical Oyster Bay mansion, with columns capped by brilliant ceramic blossoms and a smokestack hidden in a blue-banded minaret—so as to foil the town from reclaiming the beach for public use. The explosion shakes both the apple crate where Prudence, the daughter of Tiffany’s prized gardener, is sleeping and the rocks where Randall, her seven-year-old brother, is playing. Nearly a century later, Prudence receives an unexpected visit at her New York apartment from Grace, a hospice nurse and the granddaughter of Randall, who Prudence never saw again after he left at age fourteen for California. The mementos Grace carries from her grandfather’s house stir Prudence’s long-repressed memories and bring her to a new understanding of the choices she made in work and love, and what she faces now in her final days. Spanning the twentieth century and three continents, The Peacock Feast ricochets from Manhattan to San Francisco, from the decadent mansions of the Tiffany family to the death row of a Texas prison, and from the London consultation room of Anna Freud to a Mendocino commune. With psychological acuity and aching eloquence, Lisa Gornick has written a sweeping family drama, an exploration of the meaning of art and the art of dying, and an illuminating portrait of how our decisions reverberate across time and space.
Author : Manmohan Krishna Bhatnagar,Mittapalli Rajeshwar
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171568998
Anita Desai S Work Represents A Unique Blending Of The Indian And The Western. Her Novels Catch The Bewilderment Of The Individual Psyche Confronted With The Overbearing Socio-Cultural Environment And The Ever-Beckoning Modern Promise Of Self-Gratification And Self-Fulfilment. In The Face Of This Dual Onslaught, Her Protagonists, Male Or Female Maya, Sita, Monisha And Amla; Sarah, Nanda And Raka; Bim And Tara; Devan, Baumgartner Are Seen Poised Rentalizingly At Different Junctures Of The Philosophic Spectrum.Applying Sociological, Psychoanalytic, Structural And Other Approaches Of Formal Textual Analysis, The Essays In The Present Anthology Take A Fresh Look At Established Works, Revealing Aspects Of Study Hitherto Unexplored, Offer Critically Insightful Probes Into Individual Novels And Explore The Deployment Of Images, Symbols And Other Poetic Devices, Besides Diverse Narrative Strategies.An Indispensable Source-Book For Students, Researchers And Teachers Of Indian English And Commonwealth Literature In General And Fiction And Anita Desai In Particular.An Insightful Companion For Research In Sociology And Women-Studies.
Author : Sean Flynn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982101084
Until Flynn’s neighbor in North Carolina offered him one, he had never considered whether he wanted a peacock. His family became the owners of not one but three charming yet fickle birds: Carl, Ethel, and Mr. Pickle. Here he chronicles their first year as peacock owners, from struggling to build a pen to assisting the local bird doctor in surgery to triumphantly watching a peahen lay her first egg. He also examines the history of peacocks, from their appearance in the Garden of Eden. And Flynn travels across the globe to learn more about the birds firsthand. His book offers surprising lessons about love, grief, fatherhood, and family. -- adapted from jacket.