Fire on the Mountain
By: Anita Desai
4.01
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
A classic from one of India's greatest writers with a stunning new cover in water colour. Gone are …
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1. Coolie
By: Mulk Raj Anand
3.80
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to… read more
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2. Winter in the Blood
By: James Welch
3.82
Format: 177 pages, Paperback
During his life, James Welch came to be regarded as a master of American prose, and his first novel… read more
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- literary fiction
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"He had followed the calendar, the years, time- Bird farted. And it came to me, as though it were riding one moment of the gusting wind, as though bird had had it in him all the time and had passed it…"-James Welch, Winter in the Blood
3. Malgudi Days
By: R.K. Narayan , Jhumpa Lahiri
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennial Introduc… read more
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4. The Inheritance of Loss
By: Kiran Desai
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in o… read more
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5. The Body Artist
By: Don DeLillo
4.81
Format: 539 pages, Paperback
The Barnes & Noble Review In whatever form Don DeLillo chooses to write, there is simply no other A… read more
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- novella
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6. El nadador en el mar secreto
By: William Kotzwinkle
3.66
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
William Kotzwinkle es un escritor estadounidense, autor de libros infantiles, novelas de genero fan… read more
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8. Fire on the Mountain
By: Anita Desai
4.01
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
A classic from one of India's greatest writers with a stunning new cover in water colour. Gone are … read more
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9. The Shadow Lines
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families--one Eng… read more
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10. The Shadow-Line
By: Joseph Conrad , Jeremy Hawthorn
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
Written in 1915, The Shadow-Lineis based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlie… read more
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11. Indian Ink
By: Tom Stoppard
3.78
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Flora Crewe, a young poet travelling India in 1930, has her portrait painted by a local artist. Mor… read more
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12. Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri
By: Tezer Özlü
4.03
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Tezer Ozlu'nun bu ilk romani, yasamin yalnizca baslangicini olusturmakla kalmayan, surekli donulen,… read more
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13. The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.50
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosometakes readers on a wondrous jo… read more
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14. Train Dreams
By: Denis Johnson
3.67
Format: 272 pages,
Denis Johnson's Train Dreamsis an epic in miniature, one of his most evocative and poignant fiction… read more
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15. The Bachelor of Arts
By: R.K. Narayan
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
"There are writers--Tolstoy and Henry James to name two--whom we hold in awe, writers--Turgenev and… read more
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16. Sons and Lovers
By: D.H. Lawrence , Geoff Dyer
3.86
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
"She was a brazen hussy." "She wasn't. And she was pretty, wasn't she?" "I didn't look ... And tell… read more
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17. The All of It
By: Jeannette Haien
4.67
Format: None pages,
Jeannette Haien's award-winning first novel relates the seemingly simple tale of a parishioner conf… read more
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18. Tomb of Sand
By: Geetanjali Shree
3.70
Format: 739 pages, Paperback
An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more
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"Anything worth doing transcends borders."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
19. The Sentence
By: Louise Erdrich
3.95
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The Sentence asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small in… read more
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"I'd taken a pink eraser to my childhood and blurred the pain."-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
"A newborn baby has a powerful effect on character. But so does a toddler. A child. A preteen. A teenager. A mother changes with every stage. Some stages are within a mother's skill set. Some stages a…"-Louise Erdrich, The Sentence
