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Red Earth and Pouring Rain

Author : Vikram Chandra
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571267157
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Red Earth and Pouring Rain written by Vikram Chandra and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gods of poetry and death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a story, and if he can keep his audience entertained, he shall live. The result is Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Vikram Chandra's astonishing, vibrant novel. Interweaving tales of nineteenth-century India with modern America, it stands in the tradition of The Thousand and One Nights, a work of vivid imagination and a celebration of the power of storytelling itself. 'A dazzling first novel written with such originality and intensity as to be not merely drawing on myth but making it.' Sunday Times

Love and Longing in Bombay

Author : Vikram Chandra
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571267165
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Love and Longing in Bombay written by Vikram Chandra and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in contemporary India, Love and Longing in Bombay confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting young writers. In five haunting tales he paints a remarkable picture of Bombay - its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries - while exploring timeless questions of the human spirit. 'When Midnight's Children first arrived on the scene, it became necessary to revaluate stories from and about India. With Vikram Chandra's collection - his second book - it is time to take stock again . . . Breathtaking.' Observer

Sacred Games

Author : Vikram Chandra
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571267149
Total Pages : 1203 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Sacred Games written by Vikram Chandra and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 1203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enormously satisfying, exciting and enriching book, Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the lives of detective Sartaj Singh and Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. Sartaj, the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But 'the silky Sikh' is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an anonymous tip off as to the secret hideout of the legendary boss of the G-company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize. This is a sprawling, epic novel of friendships and betrayals, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its underworld. Drawing on the best of Victorian fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Vikram Chandra's years of first hand research on the streets of Mumbai, this novel reads like a potboiling page-turner but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.

Geek Sublime

Author : Vikram Chandra
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555973264
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Geek Sublime written by Vikram Chandra and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nonfiction debut from the author of the international bestseller Sacred Games about the surprising overlap between writing and computer coding Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code? Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an "Indian Mafia" in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, Geek Sublime is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer's art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.

Global Matters

Author : Paul Jay
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801470064
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Global Matters written by Paul Jay and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the pace of cultural globalization accelerates, the discipline of literary studies is undergoing dramatic transformation. Scholars and critics focus increasingly on theorizing difference and complicating the geographical framework defining their approaches. At the same time, Anglophone literature is being created by a remarkably transnational, multicultural group of writers exploring many of the same concerns, including the intersecting effects of colonialism, decolonization, migration, and globalization. Paul Jay surveys these developments, highlighting key debates within literary and cultural studies about the impact of globalization over the past two decades. Global Matters provides a concise, informative overview of theoretical, critical, and curricular issues driving the transnational turn in literary studies and how these issues have come to dominate contemporary global fiction as well. Through close, imaginative readings Jay analyzes the intersecting histories of colonialism, decolonization, and globalization engaged by an array of texts from Africa, Europe, South Asia, and the Americas, including Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, Vikram Chandra's Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Mohsin Hamid's Moth Smoke, and Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness. A timely intervention in the most exciting debates within literary studies, Global Matters is a comprehensive guide to the transnational nature of Anglophone literature today and its relationship to the globalization of Western culture.

Bizarre Weather

Author : Joanne O'Sullivan
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1607345366
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Bizarre Weather written by Joanne O'Sullivan and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is weather beyond your wildest imagination—yet it’s all true: showers of worms from the sky, watermelon snow, gory storms, and other freakish and fun phenomena! These stories are anything but ordinary, and they will leave you stunned, horrified, amazed, and sometimes even amused at the incredible things nature can do. Gathered from historic records, present-day news reports and research studies, and spanning the globe from the Sahara to the tundra to the USA, they reveal just how volatile and bizarre weather can be. Find out about supersized hailstones as big as bowling balls; fish raining from the sky; the never-ending lightning that has become a UNESCO National Heritage Site; and fog so thick it killed hundreds of people in a single day. And if that isn’t strange enough for you, there are terrible typhoons and tsunamis, tornadoes that have carried people into the air, temperatures that soared over 49 degrees in two minutes, and even cyclones that have raised ships buried for over a century. Scientists can explain how and why some of these things happen—but other events remain a mystery.

Shanti

Author : Vikram Chandra
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571356877
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Shanti written by Vikram Chandra and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Who was she? Where was she going? Why did she return? It is 1945, and twenty-year-old Shiv, grieving his identical twin brother, retreats to a small town in Uttar Pradesh. He is preparing to jump onto the train tracks when he is stopped by the sight of a woman. Shanti's husband is a fighter pilot missing in Burma. For the past three years she has travelled the country in search of him. In every military hospital she visits she hears a new story, and every time she passes through Leharia she tells one to Shiv. Through stories within stories Chandra tells a spiralling tale of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new. Borrowing a structure from the Mahabharata, Vikram Chandra tells a spiralling story of loss, and of two wounded people becoming something new.

The Srinagar Conspiracy

Author : Vikram A. Chandra
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780141001555
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Srinagar Conspiracy written by Vikram A. Chandra and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jalauddin And His Men Are Back In India, And Within The Next Few Weeks They Will Shake You And Kashmir Like Nothing Before... With Barely Three Months To Go For The American President S Visit To India, Major Vijay Kaul Learns Of An Incredible Plot Hatched By A Rogue Faction Of The Lashkar-E-Taiba, One Of The World S Most Lethal Terrorist Organizations. Afghanistan-Trained Militant Jalauddin Has Entered India With Only One Aim To Destroy Any Hope Of Lasting Peace In Kashmir. The Security Forces Race Against Time, Trying Frantically To Foil The Plot. But Even As They Employ Their Best Men And Resources To Track Down Jalauddin, There Is Something Far More Sinister Brewing A Meticulously Planned Operation To Unleash Chaos And Bring India To Her Knees. Highly Charged And Brilliantly Plotted, The Srinagar Conspiracy Is The First Thriller To Be Set Against The Backdrop Of The Insurgency In Kashmir. Expertly Blending Fact With Fiction, The Book Describes The Rise Of Militancy In Kashmir Over The Past Decade And A Half, And Tells The Human Story Of Those Whose Lives Were Shaped By Events Beyond Their Control And Whose Actions Could Now Decide The Fate Of The Subcontinent.

Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English

Author : Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
Publisher : Hotei Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9004292608
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English written by Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru and published by Hotei Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a comparison with theatrical performance the argument develops that in both theatre and fiction the concepts of performance and performativity transform classical Indian mythic poetics. In the mythic symbiosis of performance and storytelling in Indian tradition, myth becomes a liberating space of consciousness, where rigid categories and boundaries are transcended.

Wanderlust

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101199555
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Wanderlust written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate, thought-provoking exploration of walking as a political and cultural activity, from the author of Orwell's Roses Drawing together many histories--of anatomical evolution and city design, of treadmills and labyrinths, of walking clubs and sexual mores--Rebecca Solnit creates a fascinating portrait of the range of possibilities presented by walking. Arguing that the history of walking includes walking for pleasure as well as for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit focuses on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture, from philosophers to poets to mountaineers. She profiles some of the most significant walkers in history and fiction--from Wordsworth to Gary Snyder, from Jane Austen's Elizabeth Bennet to Andre Breton's Nadja--finding a profound relationship between walking and thinking and walking and culture. Solnit argues for the necessity of preserving the time and space in which to walk in our ever more car-dependent and accelerated world.

Ambushed

Author : Nayanika Mahtani
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184750331
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Ambushed written by Nayanika Mahtani and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling adventure that explores the beauty, joy and dangers of the natural world Tara Tripathi’s worst nightmare comes true when her father takes the entire family on a most unusual vacation—tracking Royal Bengal tigers in the Himalayan foothills! She already gets her fill of thrills from her iPad, video games and telly, and can do without pointlessly parading through jungles, thank you very much. But when the ten-year-old gadget geek stumbles upon an international tiger-poaching racket and meets Satya, the twelve-year-old son of a poacher with whom she sets out to save the lives of a tigress and her cubs, she discovers that the real world is far more exciting than her virtual one. Filled with nail-biting, edge-of-the-seat action and adventure, Ambushed is a story with a compelling message.

Red Rain

Author : R.L. Stine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145163613X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Red Rain written by R.L. Stine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the aftermath of a hurricane from which she barely escapes while on a small island off the coast of South Carolina, travel writer Lea Sutter impulsively adopts a pair of orphaned twin boys against the wishes of her family before encountering the twins' sinister natures.

Red Earth and Pouring Rain

Author : Vikram Chandra
Publisher : Little Brown & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780316132763
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Red Earth and Pouring Rain written by Vikram Chandra and published by Little Brown & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country. 15,000 first printing. Tour.

Studies in Postcolonial Literature

Author : M. Q. Khan
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
ISBN 13 : 9788126907632
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Postcolonial Literature written by M. Q. Khan and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies In Postcolonial Literature Contains Twenty-Three Papers And Two Interviews With Two Eminent Writers On Different Genres Poetry, Fiction, Short Fiction And Drama Of Postcolonial Literature. It Deals With Literatures In English Outside The Anglo-American Tradition. The Book Focuses On How Postcolonial Literature Assumes An Identity Of Its Own In Spite Of The Writers Drawn From Different Countries With Distinct National Identities. This Is A Very Useful Book For The Students As Well As The Teachers Who Intend To Do An Extensive Study Of Postcolonial Literature.

Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature

Author : Sk Sagir Ali
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000449599
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Religion in South Asian Anglophone Literature written by Sk Sagir Ali and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume studies the representation of religion in South Asian Anglophone literature of the twentieth and twenty-first century. It traces the contours of South Asian writing through the consequences of the complex contesting forces of blasphemy and secularization. Employing a cross-disciplinary approach, it discusses various key issues such as religious fundamentalism, Islamophobia, religious majoritarianism, nationalism, and secularism. It also provides an account of the reception of this writing within the changing conceptions of racial "Others" and cultural difference, particularly with respect to minority writers, in terms of ethnic background and lack of access to social mobility. The volume features chapters on key texts, including The Hungry Tide, The Enchantress of Florence, In Times of Seige, One Part Woman, Anil’s Ghost, The Book of Gold Leaves, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, The Black Coat and Swarnalata, among others. An important contribution to the study of South Asian literature, the book will be indispensable for students and researchers of literary studies, religious studies, cultural studies, literary criticism, and South Asian studies.

Why Loiter?

Author : Shilpa Phadke
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143415956
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Why Loiter? written by Shilpa Phadke and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an original take on women’s safety in the cities of twenty-first century India, Why Loiter? maps the exclusions and negotiations that women from different classes and communities encounter in the nation’s urban public spaces. Basing this book on more than three years of research in Mumbai, Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade argue that though women’s access to urban public space has increased, they still do not have an equal claim to public space in the city. And they raise the question: can women’s access to public space be viewed in isolation from that of other marginal groups? Going beyond the problem of the real and implied risks associated with women’s presence in public, they draw from feminist theory to argue that only by celebrating loitering—a radical act for most Indian women—can a truly equal, global city be created.

Vesper Flights

Author : Helen Macdonald
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 0802146694
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Vesper Flights written by Helen Macdonald and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author of H is for Hawk explores the human relationship to the natural world in this “dazzling” essay collection (Wall Street Journal). In Vesper Flights, Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the massive migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk’s poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds’ nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.