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The Trotter-nama

Author : I Allan Sealy
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9353056675
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Trotter-nama written by I Allan Sealy and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2019-10-24 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century, Justin Aloysius Trotter, or the Great Trotter, tumbles earthward to his death while surveying his vast lands and admiring his wealth from a hot air balloon. Two centuries later, the Seventh Trotter, Eugene Aloysius, narrates the epic story of a family at the fraying ends of its past glory. Laced with verses, advertisements, journal entries, elegies, quotations and learned interpolations, The Trotternama is the chronicle of seven generations of Trotters as they struggle to hold on to their shifting identities. They are Indian at lunch and British at dinner; eat curry with a dessert spoon and dessert with a teaspoon. Over the years, the expanding clan of Trotters produces soldiers, artists, poets, politicians-even a dhoti-wearing nationalist. As their excesses slowly turn to improvidence and the family chateaux is turned into a hotel, their increasing numbers and declining fortunes strain against a rapidly changing country. Allan Sealy's epic comedy of manners about Britain and India's motley offspring is as much a treat today as it was thirty years ago.

The Trotter-nama

Author : I. Allan Sealy
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Trotter-nama written by I. Allan Sealy and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1988 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictional family chronicle that spans 200 years, seven generations, and two cultures in telling the extraordinary story of the Anglo-Indian clan from its glorious founding in the eighteenth century by a French mercenary officer through its grand vicissitudes in the nineteenth century to its sadly shrunken present.

The Trotter-nama

Author : I. Allan Sealy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780670817542
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Trotter-nama written by I. Allan Sealy and published by . This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Classic Is A Literary Extravaganza, A Huge Funny, Constantly Surprising Fictional Family Chronicle That Spans Two Hundred Years, Seven Generations, And Two Cultures. It Tells The Extraordinary Story Of An Anglo-Indian Clan From Its Glorious Founding In The Eighteenth Century To Its Sadly Shrunken Present.

ASOCA

Author : Irwin Allan Sealy
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9354920632
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)

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Download or read book ASOCA written by Irwin Allan Sealy and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asoca-often spelled Ashoka-was hailed as Ashoka the Great, the emperor who ruled most of the Indian Subcontinent and was pivotal in the spread of Buddhism from India to other parts of Asia in the third century BC. But his life as emperor was not always led by non-violence. History has it that he masterminded one of the biggest and deadliest wars ever fought, and it was the insurmountable grief he experienced at the sight of the people dying and dead on the battleground that made him turn to Buddhism and take a vow of ahimsa. Who was the man, and who was the king? What were his demons, and what gave him strength? This historical novel, drawn from research and portrayed with energy and complexity, transports the reader to the era of the Mauryan dynasty with atmospheric vividness and insight. Epic in scope and Shakespearean in drama, Asoca: A Sutra leaves the reader breathless with the full-bodied richness of Sealy's prose, his trademark whimsy and his imaginative modern reconstruction of that enigmatic and brilliant ruler of the Indian subcontinent.

The Trotter-Nama

Author : I. Allan Sealy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140102109
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book The Trotter-Nama written by I. Allan Sealy and published by . This book was released on 1990-04-01 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Brainfever Bird

Author : Allan Sealy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447210093
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book The Brainfever Bird written by Allan Sealy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lev is a man who has come down in the world. Once a biological scientist, he is now a chauffeur in 'that new Russia where physicists wash windows and engineers drive trams'. So he decides to take his somewhat lethal knowledge abroad; to offer his services to a foreign government. But on the way from the airport his taxi is stopped, and he is robbed. It is in this helpless state, alone and adrift in Delhi, that Lev meets Maya. Beautiful, ferocious and utterly original, Maya has been waiting for a man like Lev to walk into her life. Briefly they come together, and Lev steps into the marvellous world that is Maya. But then something terrible happens - something for which the Russian scientist is blamed. The Brainfever Bird is an exquisite love story, a tale of international intrigue and biological weapons, a literary thriller of incredibly beauty, bursting with life, dreams and wonder.

The Everest Hotel

Author : I. Allan Sealy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Everest Hotel written by I. Allan Sealy and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sand and Other Stories

Author : Acōkamittiran̲
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125022688
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (226 download)

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Download or read book Sand and Other Stories written by Acōkamittiran̲ and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a translated collection of 3 novellas, spanning three decades of Ashokamitran s work. The stories are about women trapped by an almost absolute lack of resources (financial, intellectual and emotional). The narrative in all three novellas moves in a series of short scenes, building tension with a relentless layering of detail. The exploitation of these women and their daily struggle against it is exposed in all its terrifying ordinariness. The stories have all the identifiable characteristics of Ashokamitran s writing irony, interiority, sensitivity.

Zelaldinus

Author : Irwin Allan Sealy
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789386021076
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Zelaldinus written by Irwin Allan Sealy and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2017 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a camel's back hill beyond Agra stands a Redstone citadel altogether different from the white marble Taj Mahal. Fatehpur Sikri is the capital Akbar built to honour the saint who foretold the birth of his first son. In the inner court of the king's palace is a broad stone terrace with a chequered pattern that resembles a game board. Here, accounts say, Akbar played a kind of chess using human pieces from his harem of three hundred. Costumed in various guises, his women would have presented lively masques upon this stage.Zelaldinus mounts such a pageant, glittering and fantastical, where past and present, nobles and commoners, history and fiction rub shoulders. Its variety of verse and prose forms evoke the carnival spirit of a masque. Underlying the depiction of a rich and varied court life at Sikri are reflections on kingship, a meditation on fathers and sons and a plot within a plot that tells a crackling story of love across the Pakistan border-while through it all strides the nimble ghost of Akbar himself. Jalaluddin (Zelaldinus) Akbar

A Companion to James Joyce

Author : Richard Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444342940
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to James Joyce written by Richard Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to James Joyce offers a unique composite overview and analysis of Joyce's writing, his global image, and his growing impact on twentieth- and twenty-first-century literatures. Brings together 25 newly-commissioned essays by some of the top scholars in the field Explores Joyce's distinctive cultural place in Irish, British and European modernism and the growing impact of his work elsewhere in the world A comprehensive and timely Companion to current debates and possible areas of future development in Joyce studies Offers new critical readings of several of Joyce's works, including Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Ulysses

The New Indian Novel in English

Author : Viney Kirpal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The New Indian Novel in English written by Viney Kirpal and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study and critical analysis of the themes, the motifs, and characterization in the twentieth century Indian novel in English.

The Birth of an Indian Profession

Author : Aparajith Ramnath
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199091528
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Birth of an Indian Profession written by Aparajith Ramnath and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birth of an Indian Profession is the first comprehensive history of engineers in modern India. Charting the development of the engineering profession in the country from 1900 to 1947, it explores how engineers, their roles, and their organization were transformed during the politically tumultuous interwar years. Through detailed case studies of engineers in public works, railways, and private industry, the book argues that the profession, once dominated by expatriate British engineers closely associated with the state, saw an increasing proportion of Indian members, and an emerging emphasis on industrial engineering. In the process, it fashioned for itself an Indian identity. Turning the spotlight on practitioners of technology and their professional lives, Ramnath explores several themes including the work culture of engineers, their conception of their own identity, their status in society, and their relationship with the evolving colonial state. In so doing, he provides a fresh perspective on the history of science and technology in twentieth-century India.

The Fiction of St. Stephen's

Author : Aditya Bhattacharjea
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788175300309
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Fiction of St. Stephen's written by Aditya Bhattacharjea and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Riddley Walker

Author : Russell Hoban
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408832240
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Riddley Walker written by Russell Hoban and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and walking them now on this paper the same. There aint that many sir prizes in life if you take noatis of every thing. Every time will have its happenings out and every place the same. Thats why I finely come to writing all this down. Thinking on what the idear of us myt be. Thinking on that thing whats in us lorn and loan and oansome.’ Composed in an English which has never been spoken and laced with a storytelling tradition that predates the written word, RIDDLEY WALKER is the world waiting for us at the bitter end of the nuclear road. It is desolate, dangerous and harrowing, and a modern masterpiece.

India

Author :
Publisher : Welcome Books
ISBN 13 : 1599620499
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book India written by and published by Welcome Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a portrait of India from the spectacle and colours of the Festival of Elephants to roadside portraits which uncovers the culture of India's vast landscape. The book includes the words of Indian authors including Amit Chaudhuri, Amta Desai, Salman Rushdie, and many others.

The Small Wild Goose Pagoda

Author : Irwin Allan
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789383064489
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book The Small Wild Goose Pagoda written by Irwin Allan and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2014 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Small Wild Goose Pagoda is a natural and social history of 433 square yards of India. On this piece of land in the foothills of the Himalaya, the Sealy family have a small brick house with one-and-a-half bedrooms, two-and-a-half gardens, front, back and side, an old Fiat, an internet link with the world, and a terrace roof for walking on under the sky. Here-surrounded by trees: litchi, rosewood, magnolia, silk cotton, jacaranda, a reluctant pear, a profusely flowering peach-Allan Sealy looks back on his life as he turns sixty and goes from Householder to Forest Dweller (the two middle stages in the life of a man - as set out in Indian philosophical tradition). Lending depth and texture to a narrative written in the form of an almanack is his experience of building, after a visit to China, a pagoda on his roof. As the pagoda takes shape we are introduced to a host of extraordinary characters who drift in and out of the 433 square yards: Dhani, family retainer and mali, bent in half by age; Habilis, master brick-layer and contractor with a roving eye; Beauty, part of Habilis's crew, who may or may not be his lover; Victor, stoic assistant to Habilis.... In this remarkable book, his first in a decade, award-winning novelist and travel writer, Irwin Allan Sealy, gives us an evocative account of the drama of small town life; at the same time it is an extraordinary meditation on work, family history, nature, Indian society, and the passage of time.

Landour Days

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184754388
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Landour Days written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruskin Bond is an inveterate diarist, but over the years the nature of what he wants to record has changed, for ‘In the autumn of my life, I grow reflective’. Although Landour itself is a magical world—where every month has its own flower, every walker his own style, and the countryside is filled with a beauty all its own—in his mind Bond ranges further afield. In Landour Days, he ponders on the experience of being a writer, on writers he has known and those that he loves reading, and on critics, handwriting and typewriters. Filled with warmth and gentle humour, Landour Days captures the timeless rhythm of life in the mountains, and the serene wisdom of one of India’s best-loved writers.