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FICTION
Independence Day
Richard Ford, Rs. 324.30
The sequel to The Sportswriter and the only novel ever to win the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award the sane year, this is a landmark in American literature. It is nothing less than the story of the 20th century itself. Eloquently, with awkward grace, in his two novels about an ordinary man, Ford has created an extraordinary epic.
In Times Of Siege
Githa Hariharan, Rs. 295.00
Sometimes funny, often moving, this stark contemporary narrative unfolds the story of ordinary lives besieged, of men and women struggling to make sense of hatred, ignorance, love and loyalty, to individuals, ideas and the nation. Sharp and gripping and permeated with a chilling sense of menace, this book holds a mirror to India today.
Forbidden Love
Norma Khouri, Rs. 513.10
A powerful love story that ends in an appalling tragedy, it is also an attempt to bring to the world's attention the continuing practice of honour killing in Jordan, an ancient tradition that encourages the murder of women considered to have dishonoured the family. Shocking and dramatic.
Flash House
Aimee Liu, Rs. 573.00
An extraordinary novel of love and loyalty, intrigue and survival from the acclaimed author of Cloud Mountain. This is a suspenseful novel of rescue and redemption set in India and Central Asia at the start of the Cold War featuring two unforgettable heroines whose fates are irrevocably intertwined.
Benang
Kim Scott, Rs. 295.00
A mature, complex, sweeping historical novel that will remind people of Rushdies, Carey and Grenville at their best. Benang pierces the heart even as it seeks to lance the savage bleeding of white settlement in Australia.
A Thousand Country Roads
Robert James Waller,
Rs. 225.75
This is the stunning conclusion to Waller's unforgettable The Bridges Of Madison County. Robert Kincaid is a man with little but memories, of a lonely existence lived mostly on the road. Searching for something undefined, something to give meaning to the rest of his life, Kincaid takes to the road again, heading once more for Roseman Bridge in Madison County...
NON-FICTION
Madame Sadayakko
Lesley Downer, Rs. 820.00
This is the story of the life of the geisha who seduced the West. Set against the background of the beguiling era, when Japan and the West were meeting each other for the first time, and Sadayakko was on the cusp of this collision of cultures. This is the true story of her life and loves and her struggles to carve out a life for herself in a world in which women were supposed to be subservient to men.
The Muslims Of India
A.G.Noorani, Rs. 650.00
The situation confronting the Muslim community after Independence and the Partition of India has been the subject of much research. In this volume the author collects important documents recording reactions of Muslims in this period and in the subsequent fifty years.
Mastermind India 4
Siddhartha Basu, Rs. 250.00
The latest in the a series of immensely successful quiz books on India's premier television quiz show hosted by Siddhartha Basu. This volume contains over 3,500 questions used in the fourth series of Mastermind India.
The Saga Of Indian Science Since Independence
P. M. Bharghava & Chandana Chakrabarti,
Rs. 250.00
This is the first comprehensive, authoritative, authentic, critical, unbiased and highly readable account of science and technology in Independent India.
Savarkar and Hindutva
A.G.Noorani, Rs. 295.00
This book investigates the figure of Savarkar, the author of the term Hindutva. Inimitably forthright and hardhitting, the author builds a devastating case against Savarkar. With a wealth of information and historical detail, this book is a must for all those interested in modern Indian politics and the history of communalism in India.
Sourav
Gulu Ezekiel, Rs. 250.00
In this book the author follows the career of the Indian cricket captain from the early years to the eve of the World Cup 2003. He uncovers the little known quirks of Sourav's personality even as he records the details of his cricketing career. What emerges is the portrait of a man at the peak of his powers, with the ability, motivation and sheer grit to carry his team and himself to heights previously unscaled in the history of Indian cricket.
Essays On Medieval
Indian History
Satish Chandra, Rs. 695.00
One of India's leading historians explores the interconnections between society, economy, religion, and State in medieval India. The essays reflect and have also been responsible for determining new currents in history writing over the last five decades.
Free Software: A Perspective
Richard Stallman, Rs. 60.00
This collection of writings by Richard Stallman, espouses the cause of free software, its philosophy and perspective. The struggle against imperialist globalisation is waged on several fronts. As the present age is called computer age this struggle for free software assumes all the more significance.
Hermit In Paris
Italo Calvino, Rs. 841.53
Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest we will ever come to the autobiography of this most private of writers.
(Source: D. C. Books, Kochi)
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