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Book Synopsis My Mother Called Me Unni by : Dr. Venugopal K. Menon
Download or read book My Mother Called Me Unni written by Dr. Venugopal K. Menon and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fascinating and admirable history. The detailed and descriptive chapters in this book create entire cultural worlds for readers to learn from, enjoy, and remember." -Chitra Divakaruni, international award-winning and bestselling author, Houston, TX.*** “An inspiring story, a wonderful saga of a migrant in America.” —Tom Reid, Mayor of Pearland, TX.*** “An engaging memoir of a doctor, an Indian American.” —Aseem Chhabra, columnist for India Abroad, NY.*** “Provides an interesting reading of a diasporic longing for home.” —Professor Sanoo Master, writer, critic, humanist, Kerala, India.*** “Unbelievable…interesting and fascinating reading.” —Padma Shri Dr. Vyjayanthimala Bali, dancer, actress, former MP, Chennai, India.*** “Remarkable journey from his native land of India to America.” —John K. Graham, MD, D. Min, President/CEO, ISH., Houston, TX.*** “Enjoyable and authentic descriptions; touching; impressive.” —Padma Vibhushan, professor, physicist, Dr. E.C.G. Sudarshan, Austin, TX.***
Book Synopsis Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. by : Jenny Heijun Wills
Download or read book Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. written by Jenny Heijun Wills and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her first family and returned to Seoul where she spent four months getting to know other adoptees, as well as her Korean mother, father, siblings, and extended family. At the guesthouse for transnational adoptees where she lived, alliances were troubled by violence and fraught with the trauma of separation and of cultural illiteracy. Unsurprisingly, heartbreakingly, Wills found that her nascent relationships with her family were similarly fraught. Ten years later, Wills sustains close ties with her Korean family. Her Korean parents and her younger sister attended her wedding in Montreal, and that same sister now lives in Canada. Remarkably, meeting Jenny caused her birth parents to reunite after having been estranged since her adoption. Little by little, Jenny Heijun Wills is learning and relearning her stories and those of her biological kin, piecing together a fragmented life into something resembling a whole. Delving into gender, class, racial, and ethnic complexities, as well as into the complex relationships between Korean women--sisters, mothers and daughters, grandmothers and grandchildren, aunts and nieces--Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. describes in visceral, lyrical prose the painful ripple effects that follow a child's removal from a family, and the rewards that can flow from both struggle and forgiveness.
Book Synopsis Obligations and Aspirations by : Kim Jai Sook Martin
Download or read book Obligations and Aspirations written by Kim Jai Sook Martin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim Jai Sook Martin entered the world in 1935, during the Japanese occupation of her native Korea. She was the second daughter of an ordinary family, born to parents who had hoped for a boy; they dressed her as one until she was three, when her brother was born. By the age of six, she had already learned the price of her fierce independence: refusing to acknowledge the Japanese flag as the Korean national flag, she was denied entrance to her first year of school. This early conflict set Kim Jai Sook on a lifetime quest to understand her obligations to her family, her culture, her country, herself, and, ultimately, to God. Hers is a story of perseverance, turmoil, and love, as she fought to maintain balance between duty and her own desires. She set her goals high. As the survivor of Japanese subjugation and two wars, she committed herself to living as a responsible and worthy person. As an adult, in pursuit of her deep desire to become a teacher, she left Korea and built a new life in Canada, where her fathers advice on dealing with people became her guiding principles. This is her story.
Download or read book Beware Beware written by Steph Cha and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Working as an apprentice at a P.I. firm, Juniper Song finds herself nose deep in a Hollywood murder scandal where the lies may be more glamorous than most, but the truths they cover are just as ugly. When a young woman named Daphne Freamon calls looking for an eye on her boyfriend, her boss punts the client to Song. Daphne is an independently wealthy painter living in New York, and her boyfriend Jamie Landon is a freelance screenwriter in Los Angeles, ghostwriting a vanity project for aging movie star Joe Tilley. Song quickly learns that there's more to this case than a simple tail, and her suspicions are confirmed when Tilley winds up dead in a hotel room"--Dust jacket.
Download or read book Blood Sisters written by Kim Yideum and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood Sisters tells the story of Jeong Yeoul, a young Korean college student in the 1980's, when the memory of President Chun Doohwan's violent suppression of student demonstrations against martial law was still fresh. Yideum captures with raw honesty the sense of dread felt by many Korean women during this time as Jeong struggles in a swirl of misguided desires and hopelessness against a society distorted by competing ideologies, sexual violence, and cultural conservatism. Facing this helplessness, her impulse is to escape into the world of art. Blood Sisters is a vivid, powerful portrayal of a woman’s efforts to live an authentic life in the face of injustice.
Book Synopsis I Went To See My Father by : Kyung-Sook Shin
Download or read book I Went To See My Father written by Kyung-Sook Shin and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant bestseller in Korea and the follow up to the international bestseller, Please Look After Mom; centering on a woman’s efforts to reconnect with her aging father, uncovering long-held family secrets. Two years after losing her daughter in a tragic accident, Hon finally returns to her home in the countryside to take care of her father. At first, her father only appears withdrawn and fragile, an aging man, awkward but kind around his own daughter. Then, after stumbling upon a chest of letters, Hon discovers the truth of her father’s past and reconstructs her own family history. Consumed with her own grief, Hon had been blind to her father’s vulnerability and her family’s fragility. Unraveling secret after secret and thanks to conversations with loving family and friends, Hon grows closer to her father, who proves to be more complex than she ever gave him credit for. After living through one of the most tumultuous times in Korean history, her father’s life was once vibrant and ambitious, but spiraled during the postwar years. Now, after years of emotional isolation, Hon learns the whole truth, from her father’s affair and involvement in a religious sect, to the dynamic lives of her own siblings, to her family’s financial hardships. What Hon uncovers about her father builds towards her understanding of the great scope of his sacrifice and heroism, and of his generation as a whole. More than just the portrait of a single man, I Went to See My Father opens a window onto humankind, family, loss, and war. With this long-awaited follow-up to Please Look After Mom—flawlessly rendered by award-winning translator Anton Hur—Kyung-Sook Shin has crafted an ambitious, global, epic, and lasting novel.
Book Synopsis More Than The Eye Can See: Memoirs Of Gopinath Pillai by : Gopinath Pillai
Download or read book More Than The Eye Can See: Memoirs Of Gopinath Pillai written by Gopinath Pillai and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More Than The Eye Can See tells the story of Gopinath Pillai, a Singaporean businessman and diplomat who served as Singapore's Non-Resident Ambassador to Iran (1989-2008) and High Commissioner to Pakistan (1994-2001). Alongside working with prominent members of Singapore's pioneering generation to strengthen the country's manufacturing profile and international trade during the Cold War, he broke into liberalising India as a trailblazing entrepreneur and contributed to the nation's public life as the first Chairman of NTUC Fairprice and Founder Chairman of the Institute of South Asian Studies.A self-described 'Jack of All Trades', Gopi's memoirs frame episodes of personal struggle against milestones in the progress of the nation. Born in Singapore to Malayalee parents in 1937, Gopi spent his early childhood in India throughout the Japanese Occupation, where he witnessed the Communist Movement in Kerala first-hand. When he returned to Singapore in 1946, Gopi grew up in a multi-racial society taking its fledgling steps as a democracy. His career took him all over — to Thailand and Malaysia as an economist and journalist and the Middle East and America as a manager — reflecting Singapore's early industrialisation and the pursuit of its values and interests abroad and at home.Co-written with John Vater, More Than The Eye Can See offers a panorama of a man and his century.
Download or read book I Met Loh Kiwan written by Cho Haejin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This poignant short novel follows North Korean refugee Loh Kiwan to a place where he doesn’t speak the language or understand the customs. His story of hardship and determination is gradually revealed in flashbacks by the narrator, Kim, a writer for a South Korean TV show, who learned about Loh from a news report. She traces his progress from North Korea to Brussels to London as he struggles to make his way and find a home in an unfamiliar world. Readers come to see that Kim, too, has embarked on a journey, one driven by her need to understand what drives people to live, even thrive, despite tremendous loss and despair. Her own conflicted feelings of personal and professional guilt are mirrored in the novel’s other characters: Jae, Kim’s romantic interest and producer of the TV show she once wrote for; Yunju, a young cancer victim whose illness she now regrets exploiting; Pak, a doctor who helped Loh in Brussels, yet suffers deep remorse over the many life and death decisions he has made for his patients. Cho Haejin weaves these characters into a story of hope and trust, one that asks basic questions about what it means to be human and humane. First published in 2011 in South Korea, this timely book won the 2013 Shin Dong-yup Prize for Literature.
Book Synopsis Tears of the Ganges by : M. Parameswaran
Download or read book Tears of the Ganges written by M. Parameswaran and published by StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About The Book: TEARS OF THE GANGES is a philosophical novel highlighting the Veda, Vedanta, and Buddhist outlooks in between the lines. Two young men from Kerala, Unni, from Thrissur and Vasu, from Shoranur, meet in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges. Unni has come in search of his friend Appu, and Vasu is in the city to perform the last rites for his mother. Another young man, named Shankar, who is a drug addict, joins them as their guide. One evening, Shankar pushes Vasu into the river and runs away with his bag. Vasu is admitted to a hospital but dies there. Unni decides to take the dead body to Kerala. But the same night, there is a terrorist attack, and 161 people are killed. Unni returns to Kerala with the dead body and reaches nowhere. The story ends in a charismatic dark night, leaving the hero in the middle of vast paddy fields, accompanied by the songs of innumerable frogs in the background, as it is the rainy season. The frogs are chanting a famous Veda mantra. About the Author: Mullappilly Parameswaran is a Malayalam writer from Kerala. Born on 10th of June, 1945, in Thrissur district of Kerala, he has published three Malayalam books and several articles. Email – [email protected]
Book Synopsis The Serpents of Kanakapuram by : Sudeepa Nair
Download or read book The Serpents of Kanakapuram written by Sudeepa Nair and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a professional trip, Meera Mohan finds herself stuck in the quaint little village of Kanakapuram amidst unprecedented floods in the state of Kerala. She is fascinated by the story of a haunted house, its serpent grove, and cherishes her new friendships. Bhuvanamma, a gentle old widow who is also an excellent cook, Hussain, the caretaker at the company guest house, Unni and Rani, a young couple torn between their respective ambitions, Leena, an ethnobotanist and Hari, an architect—form the motley gang at Kanakapuram. She rekindles her love for her native culture through them, until… … mysterious deaths occur at the house, and Meera gets unwittingly involved. Before she can extricate herself from the investigations, her friend and colleague, Cara, is found dead in the United States. Who can Meera trust? Is the house really haunted? Who are the serpents?
Book Synopsis My Struggle: Book 4 by : Karl Ove Knausgaard
Download or read book My Struggle: Book 4 written by Karl Ove Knausgaard and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 4 of "A six-volume work of fiction by the Norwegian author, Karl Ove Knausgaard"--
Book Synopsis My Days in Solitude by : Annie Issac
Download or read book My Days in Solitude written by Annie Issac and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world was shrinking to within the four walls of home for almost everyone across the world, a young scientist in Hyderabad discovers herself. Having had people around her all her life, Annie finds it difficult to adjust to the aloneness in the beginning. Over the next few weeks, what happens is a journey through her life, people and circumstances that made her what she is today. Family is the foundation on which she stands on, and friends are the pillars from whom she draws strength. A short and impactful recounting of the years of struggle, joy, disappointments and success. Today, she stands strong and firm. Happy at where she is, looking forward to whatever life brings, ready to take it head-on.
Book Synopsis Awaken Children Vol. 7 by : Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi
Download or read book Awaken Children Vol. 7 written by Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi and published by M A Center. This book was released on 2014-11-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amma's Enlightening Conversations Have Been Faithfully Recorded In The Awaken Children Series. This Book, The Seventh Volume Of Awaken Children, Is The Quintessence Of Vedanta. It Is A Sure Way To Lead A Most Happy And Successful Life. Each Word Is Profound And Contains The Whole Of Spirituality And Life. Reading This Book Could Be A Meditation, A Glimpse Into One’s Own Inner Self. The Events In This Book, For The Most Part, Took Place Between The Beginning Of October 1984 And January 1986. We Can Find Amma's Teachings On A Variety Of Subjects Such As: Not The Limited Self But The Infinite Atman; The Mind Is Mad; The Ego Lives On Attention; Sakshi Bhava, The State Of Witnessing; The Real Center Is Within; Be Fully Conscious; The Power To Witness Exists Within; Mother, The Sarvasakshi; The Infinite Power Of The Self; The Mind Is A Big Lie; The Two Powers Of The Mind; Attachment Is A Disease; The Necessity Of Tapas; How To Listen; Is Religion Responsible For The Conflicts Of The Present Day; Religion And Spirituality; The Highest Peak Of Human Existence; It Takes Courage To Surrender; The Ego Kills The Real You; Beauty Lies In Egolessness. Translated By Swami Amritaswarupananda. Published By The Disciples Of Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Affectionately Known As Mother, Or Amma The Hugging Saint.
Book Synopsis Sent to Watch by : David J. Lebenstein
Download or read book Sent to Watch written by David J. Lebenstein and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sent to Watch By: David J. Lebenstein “Sent to watch, but not to affect”—such is the Noninterference Protocol that binds all of the agents in the Interplanetary Intelligence Service whose mission is to infiltrate leading nations on primitive planets to help the Confederation of Civilized Planets determine when a world is ready to be formally contacted and offered membership in the Confederation. Unni Vlaytork and her two fellow agents, Ori Svavapass and Urelt Sraymlat, are assigned to a faction on “Earth 48” known as the British Empire during the Regency of Prince George. They find themselves at odds with their agency’s Noninterference Protocol when a cruel and aggressive starfaring empire is discovered in another part of the galaxy. The agents conceive a plan to accelerate the technical development of the planet, hoping to have Earth 48 admitted to the Confederation before the invaders arrive. Two of the agents are to marry, have a son, and groom him to be a future prime minister who would carry out the necessary reforms. The success of the plan hinges on hiding this apparent violation of the Noninterference Protocol from an inflexible superior officer. But there is another complication: both Ori and Urelt are in love with Unni.
Author :M.T. Vasudevan Nair Publisher :Penguin Random House India Private Limited ISBN 13 :9357084061 Total Pages :190 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (57 download)
Book Synopsis Bear with Me, Amma by : M.T. Vasudevan Nair
Download or read book Bear with Me, Amma written by M.T. Vasudevan Nair and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MT, as he is popularly known, is one of the most illustrious writers and film-makers from modern Kerala. His life’s work has won him the Jnanpith Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award, the National Film Award and the Padma Bhushan, among others. MT grew up in the village of Kudallur in Kerala and his writings constantly evoke the landscape of the years he spent there. Many of the characters in his stories are based on people who lived in this region and the stories themselves often retell incidents that happened there. The memoirs as well as the stories in this volume were chosen by MT himself. They pay homage to his childhood, his craft and most importantly, his Amma, whose restful presence they beautifully and poignantly capture.
Download or read book Follow Her Home written by Steph Cha and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning, edgy debut introducing Juniper Song, an amateur sleuth taking on the darkness in the veins of L.A. with razor-sharp wit and a breaking heart. Juniper Song knows secrets–how to keep them and how to search them out. As a girl, noir fiction was her favorite escape, and Philip Marlowe has always been her literary idol. So when her friend Luke asks her to investigate a possible affair between his father and a young employee, Juniper (or "Song" as her friends call her) finds an opportunity to play detective. Driving through L.A.'s side streets, following leads, tailing suspects-it all appeals to Song's romantic ideal of the noir hero. But when she's knocked out while investigating a mysterious car and finds a body in her own trunk, Song lurches back to the real L.A., becoming embroiled in a crime that goes far beyond role play. What's more, this isn't the first time Song has stuck her nose in other people's business. As she fights to discover the truth about her friend's family, Song reveals one of her own deeply hidden secrets, something dark and damaging, urging her to see the current mystery through, to rectify the mistakes of her past life. A dazzling debut from fresh new talent Steph Cha, featuring a strong, modern, sharply observant heroine with an unforgettable voice, Follow Her Home takes readers through dangerous twists and turns, beyond the glittering high-rises and freeways of L.A. on a case that will stay with them long after the final page. Praise for Follow Her Home "[Song] is a compelling and original protagonist... One only hopes that Cha and her driven, neo-noir detective have more opportunities to explore those troubling intersections over many books to come." –LA Times "Stephanie Cha's brilliant debut is as Noir as Old Nick's sense of humour. Compelling from first to last page, she takes on contemporary L.A., sweeping the reader through Chandler's twilight, heartbroken city from mansions to faux K-town hostess bars. L.A. Noir at its finest." -- Denise Mina, author of The Dead Hour "Follow Her Home takes a fresh trip down the sunny, dark streets of Los Angeles, and Juniper Song is a great guide - young, sharp, and worldly-wise. Keenly observed and deeply felt, the story slowly got under my skin. I couldn't put it down." - Meg Gardiner, Edgar Award-winning author of Ransom River "In a glittery L.A. of pretty, privileged twentysomethings, Stephanie Cha's Follow Her Home opens like a playful homage to Raymond Chandler but deepens into something darker: an utterly 21st-century ode to sisterhood in the face of crime. A fast-paced thriller told in smart, sparkling prose, Follow Her Home is a moving exploration of mothers and daughters, men and women, immigrant history, loss, and hope." –Joy Castro, author of Hell or High Water
Book Synopsis On The Road To Freedom: A Pilgrimage In India Volume 2 by : Swami Paramatmananda Puri
Download or read book On The Road To Freedom: A Pilgrimage In India Volume 2 written by Swami Paramatmananda Puri and published by M A Center. This book was released on 2014-11-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On The Road To Freedom Is The Autobiography Of Swami Paramatmananda Puri, Told With Innocence, Wry Humor And Genuine Insight. This Unusual Story Narrates The Archetypal Quest For Spiritual Realization, The Trials Of Personal Transformation, And Meetings With Some Of India’s Greatest Contemporary Masters, Including: Mata Amritanandamayi, Nisargadatta Maharaj And Disciples Of Ramana Maharshi. This Book Will Illumine And Inspire Seekers To Deepen Their Commitment To The Values Of Love, Wisdom And Selfless Service To Humanity. This Book Takes Up The Thread Where Volume One Left Off. This New Edition, With Many Never-Before Published Photos, Is A Rare And Revealing Account Of A Young Westerner's Heartfelt, 30 Year Spiritual Journey In Modern India. Published By The Disciples Of Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Affectionately Known As Mother, Or Amma The Hugging Saint.
