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The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil

Author : Shubnum Khan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN 13 : 1770108718
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil written by Shubnum Khan and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Beautiful, just beautiful. A story – a history really – elegiacally written and filled with everything that makes for an absorbing read: love, intrigue, conflict, mystique, and so much character. Shubnum Khan’s The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil invites us to examine South Africa’s issues of race, class and gender through a refreshingly unique lens. A revelation!’ – SIPHIWE GLORIA NDLOVU, critically acclaimed and award-winning author of The City of Kings Trilogy A haunting, a mystery and a long-forgotten love story intertwine in this tender, lyrical novel about a young girl’s search for belonging Sana and Meena will never meet. The two women share little beyond Akbar Manzil, the sprawling mansion they call home. When Meena fell in love with the owner of the house, it was the grandest residence on South Africa’s east coast near Durban. Eight decades later when Sana follows in her footsteps, the house is crumbling, shabby and dark. This is a place where people come to forget. Or to be forgotten. Full of questions about her new home, Sana is drawn to the deserted east wing. Soon, she begins to discover the tangled, troubling history of the house, dredging up old and terrible secrets that will change the lives of everyone at Akbar Manzil – living and dead. Gorgeously atmospheric and endlessly playful, with echoes of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, The Lost Love of Akbar Manzil is perfect for fans of Elif Shafak’s The Island of Missing Trees and Neema Shah’s Kololo Hill.

Onion Tears

Author : Shubnum Khan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN 13 : 1770109234
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Onion Tears written by Shubnum Khan and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2024-03-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Khadeejah is a hard-working and stubborn first-generation Indian woman who longs for her beloved homeland and often questions what she is doing on the tip of Africa. At 37, her daughter Summaya is struggling to reconcile her South African and Indian identities, while Summaya’s own daughter, eleven-year-old Aneesa, is a girl who has some difficult questions of her own. Is her mother lying to her about her father’s death? Why won’t she tell her what really happened? Gradually, the past merges with the present as the novel meanders through their lives, uncovering the secrets people keep, the words they swallow, and the emotions they elect to mute. For this family, faintly detectable through the sharp spicy aromas that find their way out of Khadeejah’s kitchen, the scent of tragedy is always threatening. Eventually, it will bring this family together. If not, it will tear them apart.

How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo: And Other Strange and Wonderful Stories

Author : Shubnum Khan
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9390742471
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo: And Other Strange and Wonderful Stories written by Shubnum Khan and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2021-09-24 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magical' KANEEZ SURKA 'Funny, intense, thoughtful' FARAH BASHIR 'A rare, precious memoir' NATASHA BADHWAR When Shubnum Khan signed up for a photoshoot as part of an art project in college, she hadn’t imagined that the photographs would be plastered on billboards and advertisements all over the world. Two years on, her smiling face had sold condos in Mumbai and Florida, drawn subscribers to dating websites and convinced desperate customers of the supposed wonders of skin-lightening creams. This is but one of the many astounding misadventures she chronicles in How I Accidentally Became a Global Stock Photo and Other Strange and Wonderful Stories. In this part memoir, part travelogue, Shubnum takes you on unpredictable journeys far from her family home in South Africa. Whether it’s going off the grid in the Himalayas, getting pulled out of the ocean in Turkey or becoming a bride on a rooftop in Shanghai, she is quirky, moving and vulnerable in what she shares. All the while, she reflects on what it means to be a woman, especially a single Muslim woman, in the modern world. Her book is a helpful reminder that once ‘you step off the edge, anything can happen’.

The Upside of Down

Author : Bruce Whitfield
Publisher : Pan Macmillan South africa
ISBN 13 : 177010769X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Upside of Down written by Bruce Whitfield and published by Pan Macmillan South africa. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition with updated content In a world shaped by Covid-19 and characterised by fake news, manipulated feeds of information and divisive social-media agendas, it’s easy to believe that our time is the most challenging in human history. It’s just not true. It is a time of extraordinary opportunity. But only if you have the right mindset and attitude. Fear of the future breeds inaction and leads to strategic paralysis. Problem-solvers thrive in chaotic and uncertain times because they act to change their future. Winners recognise that in a world of growing uncertainty, you need to resort to actions on things you can control. A robust mindset is the one common characteristic Bruce Whitfield has identified in two decades of interrogating how South Africa’s billionaires and start-up mavericks think differently. They don’t ignore risk or hope that problems will go away. They constantly measure, manage, consider and weigh up opportunities in a tumultuous sea of uncertainty and find ways around obstacles. If, as Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller suggests, the stories we tell affect economic outcomes, then we need to tell different stories amidst the noise and haste of a rapidly evolving world.

An Ordinary Wonder

Author : Buki Papillon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643137824
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book An Ordinary Wonder written by Buki Papillon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary literary debut about a Nigerian boy's secret intersex identity and his desire to live as a girl. Oto leaves for boarding school with one plan: excel and escape his cruel home. Falling in love with his roommate was certainly not on the agenda, but fear and shame force him to hide his love and true self. Back home, weighed down by the expectations of their wealthy and powerful family, the love of Oto's twin sister wavers and, as their world begins to crumble around them, Oto must make drastic choices that will alter the family's lives for ever. Richly imagined with art, proverbs and folk tales, this moving and modern novel follows Oto through life at home and at boarding school in Nigeria, through the heartbreak of living as a boy despite their profound belief they are a girl, and through a hunger for freedom that only a new life in the United States can offer. An Ordinary Wonder is a powerful coming-of-age story that explores complex desires as well as challenges of family, identity, gender, and culture, and what it means to feel whole.

All and Everything

Author : Kobus Moolman
Publisher : Uhlanga
ISBN 13 : 9780639810843
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book All and Everything written by Kobus Moolman and published by Uhlanga. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How to put back together the logs from an old oak tree? How to replace the long cold days with sunlight?" A sequence of meditative and minimalist poems, accompanied by ink drawings by Shubnum Khan.

The Lost Love Regained

Author : Neeraj Gupta
Publisher : Justfiction Edition
ISBN 13 : 9783845446103
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Love Regained written by Neeraj Gupta and published by Justfiction Edition. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sameer is a young, educated and well qualified guy with some disabilities in his body. He was without any love in his life. Accidently he talked to Sonia and strange love between them flourishes with time for one and half years without even seeing each other. Things took an ugly turn when they saw each other and Sonia was reluctant to continue relation with him because of his physical disabilities. Sameer in a rage wanted to teach her a lesson and decided to marry Mitali, his school time friend. It was a relation in rage but still he loved Sonia. At last some incidents occur and Sameer was totally changed without any love for anyone. This story reflects the sequences of love incidents in Sameer's life and how he regained his true love finally. It's a heartening tale of love, pain, lies and emotions. It's my first venture as an author and hope you like it.

Remnants of Partition

Author : Aanchal Malhotra
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 178738120X
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Remnants of Partition written by Aanchal Malhotra and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2019 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventy years on, the Partition of India fades from memory. Can it be restored?

The Ramadan of Shaikh al Hadith Muhammad Zakariyya and our Elders

Author :
Publisher : Madania Publications
ISBN 13 : 193615708X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book The Ramadan of Shaikh al Hadith Muhammad Zakariyya and our Elders written by and published by Madania Publications. This book was released on with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Glory and the Lightning

Author : Taylor Caldwell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504042948
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Glory and the Lightning written by Taylor Caldwell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller: A breathtaking saga of ancient Greece and one of history’s most influential political couples, Aspasia and Pericles. Born in the Greek city of Miletus, Aspasia was destined for a life of tragedy. Her wealthy father vowed to abandon any female child, so Aspasia was secreted away, educated independently of her family, and raised as a courtesan. She discovered at an early age how to use her powers of intellect as ingeniously as those of the flesh. Ensconced in the Persian harems of Al Taliph, she meets the man who will change her fate: Pericles, the formidable political leader, statesman, ruler of Athens, and Aspasia’s most cherished lover. She becomes his trusted confidante, his equal through scandal, war, and revolt. From the eruption of the Peloponnesian War to violent political and family rivalries to a devastating plague, author Taylor Caldwell plunges the reader into the heart of ancient Athens. In bringing to life the tumultuous love affairs and gripping power struggles of one of history’s most complicated and fascinating women, Glory and the Lightning is thrilling proof that “Caldwell never falters when it comes to storytelling” (Publishers Weekly). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Taylor Caldwell including rare images from the author’s estate.

Adab and Modernity

Author : Cathérine Mayeur-Jaouen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004415998
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Adab and Modernity written by Cathérine Mayeur-Jaouen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adab is a concept situated at the heart of Arabic and Islamic civilisation. Adab is etiquette, ethics, and literature. It is also a creative synthesis, a relationship within a configuration. What became of it, towards modernity ? The question of the "civilising process" (Norbert Elias) helps us reflect on this story. During the modern period, maintaining one's identity while entering into what was termed "civilisation" (al-tamaddun) soon became a leitmotiv. A debate on what was or what should be culture, ethics, and norms in Middle Eastern societies accompanied this evolution. The resilient notion of adab has been in competition with the Salafist focus on mores (akhlāq). Still, humanism, poetry, and transgression are constants in the history of adab. Contributors: Francesca Bellino, Elisabetta Benigni, Michel Boivin, Olivier Bouquet, Francesco Chiabotti, Stéphane Dudoignon, Anne-Laure Dupont, Stephan Guth, Albrecht Hofheinz, Katharina Ivanyi, Felix Konrad, Corinne Lefevre, Cathérine Mayeur-Jaouen, Astrid Meier, Nabil Mouline, Samuela Pagani, Luca Patrizi, Stefan Reichmuth, Iris Seri-Hersch, Chantal Verdeil, Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan.

Negotiating the Impossible

Author : Deepak Malhotra
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1626566992
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating the Impossible written by Deepak Malhotra and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Filled with great strategies you can immediately put to use in your business and personal lives . . . extremely entertaining, thought-provoking.” —Tyra Banks, CEO, TYRA Beauty, and creator of America’s Next Top Model Some negotiations are easy. Others are more difficult. And then there are situations that seem completely hopeless. Conflict is escalating, people are getting aggressive, and no one is willing to back down. And to top it off, you have little power or other resources to work with. Harvard professor and negotiation adviser Deepak Malhotra shows how to defuse even the most potentially explosive situations and to find success when things seem impossible. Malhotra identifies three broad approaches for breaking deadlocks and resolving conflicts, and draws out scores of actionable lessons using behind-the-scenes stories of fascinating real-life negotiations, including drafting of the US Constitution, resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis, ending bitter disputes in the NFL and NHL, and beating the odds in complex business situations. But he also shows how these same principles and tactics can be applied in everyday life, whether you are making corporate deals, negotiating job offers, resolving business disputes, tackling obstacles in personal relationships, or even negotiating with children. As Malhotra reminds us, regardless of the context or which issues are on the table, negotiation is always, fundamentally, about human interaction. No matter how high the stakes or how protracted the dispute, the object of negotiation is to engage with other human beings in a way that leads to better understandings and agreements. The principles and strategies in this book will help you do this more effectively in every situation. “This book is magic for any deal maker.” —Daniel H. Pink, New York Times-bestselling author

Modern South Asia

Author : Sugata Bose
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415307871
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Modern South Asia written by Sugata Bose and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging survey of the Indian sub-continent, Modern South Asia gives an enthralling account of South Asian history. After sketching the pre-modern history of the subcontinent, the book concentrates on the last three centuries from c.1700 to the present. Jointly written by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, Modern South Asia offers a rare depth of understanding of the social, economic and political realities of this region. This comprehensive study includes detailed discussions of: the structure and ideology of the British raj; the meaning of subaltern resistance; the refashioning of social relations along lines of caste class, community and gender; and the state and economy, society and politics of post-colonial South Asia The new edition includes a rewritten, accessible introduction and a chapter by chapter revision to take into account recent research. The second edition will also bring the book completely up to date with a chapter on the period from 1991 to 2002 and adiscussion of the last millennium in sub-continental history.

Gandhi's Hinduism the Struggle against Jinnah's Islam

Author : M. J. Akbar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9389449162
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Gandhi's Hinduism the Struggle against Jinnah's Islam written by M. J. Akbar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gandhi, a devout Hindu, believed faith could nurture the civilizational harmony of India, a land where every religion had flourished. Jinnah, a political Muslim rather than a practicing believer, was determined to carve up a syncretic subcontinent in the name of Islam. His confidence came from a wartime deal with Britain, embodied in the 'August Offer' of 1940. Gandhi's strength lay in ideological commitment which was, in the end, ravaged by the communal violence that engineered partition. The price of this epic confrontation, paid by the people, has stretched into generations. M.J. Akbar's book, meticulously researched from original sources, reveals the astonishing blunders, lapses and conscious chicanery that permeated the politics of seven explosive years between 1940 and 1947. Facts from the archives challenge the conventional narrative, and disturb the conspiratorial silence used to protect the image of famous icons. Gandhi's Hinduism: The Struggle Against Jinnah's Islam delves into both the ideology and the personality of those who shaped the fate of a region between Iran and Burma. It is essential reading for anyone interested in modern Indian history, and the past as a prelude to the future.

Children of Sugarcane

Author : Joanne Joseph
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1776191722
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Children of Sugarcane written by Joanne Joseph and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shanti is a heroine that the reader will not easily forget. The story that is told here is worth not only knowing but also remembering." – Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu, author, filmmaker and academic Vividly set against the backdrop of 19th century India and the British-owned sugarcane plantations of Natal, written with great tenderness and lyricism, Children of Sugarcane paints an intimate and wrenching picture of indenture told from a woman's perspective. Shanti, a bright teenager stifled by life in rural India and facing an arranged marriage, dreams that South Africa is an opportunity to start afresh. The Colony of Natal is where Shanti believes she can escape the poverty, caste, and troubling fate of young girls in her village. Months later, after a harrowing sea voyage, she arrives in Natal only to discover the profound hardship and slave labour that await her. Spanning four decades and two continents, Children of Sugarcane demonstrates the lifegiving power of love, heartache, and the indestructible bonds between family and friends. These bonds prompt heroism and sacrifice, the final act of which leads to Shanti's redemption.

The Jahangirnama

Author : Jahangir (Emperor of Hindustan)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Jahangirnama written by Jahangir (Emperor of Hindustan) and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wheeler Thackstons lively new translation ofThe Jahangirnama, co-published with the Freer/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, presents an engaging portrait of an intriguing emperor and his flourishing empire. The Emperor Jahangir is probably best know in the West as being the father of Shahjahan, who built the Taj Mahal. His reign was one of great prosperity, and his passion for art and nature encouraged a flowering that some say rivaled European art during the rule of the Medicis. In penning his memoirs, Jahangir followed a tradition begun by his great-grandfather, the Emperor Babur. Jahangirs memoirs, however, provide not only the history of his reign, but also his reflections on art, politics, and private details about his familyincluding the suicide of one of his wivesand selections of poetry written by members of his harem. One of Jahangirs stories describes his astonishment at witnessing the fall of a meteorite, an event that so amazed him that he ordered that a dagger be made from its metal. This book includes a selection of exquisite full-color paintings, drawings, and objects that specifically illustrate the passages they accompany--including a photograph of the Emperors treasured dagger. A lover of jewels, nature, hunting, drinking, and opiates, Jahangir carried the Mughal empire to artistic and political heights. Refreshingly candid and frank, this splendidly illustrated edition of Jahangirs memoirs is a thoroughly absorbing profile of an emperor and the zenith of his empire.

The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn

Author : Usman T. Malik
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 146688651X
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn written by Usman T. Malik and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British Fantasy Award-winner: Best Novella "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" by Usman T. Malik is a fantasy novella about a disenchanted young Pakistani professor who grew up and lives in the United States, but is haunted by the magical, mystical tales his grandfather told him of a princess and a Jinn who lived in Lahore when the grandfather was a boy. "Fascinating and poetic."--Locus At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.