Such a Long Journey
By: Rohinton Mistry
3.96
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working…
Want to Read $ 4.99"The pavement artist thought for a bit, then agreed. 'I can start tomorrow morning.' 'Good, good. But one question. Will you be able to draw enough to cover 300 feet? I mean, do you know enough different gods to fill the whole wall?' The artist smiled. 'There is no difficulty. I can cover 300 miles if necessary. Using assorted religions and their gods, saints, and prophets. Hindu, Sikh, Judaic, Christian, Muslim, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Jainist. Actually, Hinduism alone can produce enough. But I always like to mix them up, include a variety in my drawings. Makes me feel I am doing something to promote tolerance and understanding in the world."-Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
"The pavement artist thought for a bit, then agreed. 'I can start tomorrow morning.' 'Good, good. But one question. Will you be able to draw enough to cover 300 feet? I mean, do you know enough different gods to fill the whole wall?' The artist smiled. 'There is no difficulty. I can cover 300 miles if necessary. Using assorted religions and their gods, saints, and prophets. Hindu, Sikh, Judaic, Christian, Muslim, Zoroastrian, Buddhist, Jainist. Actually, Hinduism alone can produce enough. But I always like to mix them up, include a variety in my drawings. Makes me feel I am doing something to promote tolerance and understanding in the world."-Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
"But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pavement project he had yet undertaken, it made him restless. Over the years, a precise cycle had entered the rhythm of his life, the cycle of arrival, creation, and obliteration. Like sleeping, waking and stretching, or eating, digesting and excreting, the cycle sang in harmony with the blood in his veins and the breath in his lungs. He learned to disdain the overlong sojourn and the procrastinated departure, for they were the progenitors of complacent routine, to be shunned at all costs. The journey -- chanced, unplanned, solitary -- was the thing to relish. Now, however, his old way of life was being threatened. The agreeable neighborhood and the solidity of the long, black wall were reawakening in him the usual sources of human sorrow: a yearning for permanence, for roots, for something he could call his own...."-Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
"But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pavement project he had yet undertaken, it made him restless. Over the years, a precise cycle had entered the rhythm of his life, the cycle of arrival, creation, and obliteration. Like sleeping, waking and stretching, or eating, digesting and excreting, the cycle sang in harmony with the blood in his veins and the breath in his lungs. He learned to disdain the overlong sojourn and the procrastinated departure, for they were the progenitors of complacent routine, to be shunned at all costs. The journey -- chanced, unplanned, solitary -- was the thing to relish. Now, however, his old way of life was being threatened. The agreeable neighborhood and the solidity of the long, black wall were reawakening in him the usual sources of human sorrow: a yearning for permanence, for roots, for something he could call his own...."-Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
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1. Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
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3.94
Format: 542 pages, Paperback
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approac… read more
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2. The Stone Angel
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3.77
Format: 316 pages, Paperback
The Stone Angel , The Diviners , and A Bird in the House are three of the five books in Margaret La… read more
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"Privacy is a privilege not granted to the aged or the young."-Margaret Laurence, The Stone Angel
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3. English, August: An Indian Story
By: Upamanyu Chatterjee , None
3.78
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His frien… read more
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"We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity."-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
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"Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams cou…"-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story
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4. Between the Assassinations
By: Aravind Adiga
3.38
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
Welcome to Kittur, India. It's on India's southwestern coast, bounded by the Arabian Sea to the wes… read more
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5. Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
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4.12
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
A haunting novel about identity, love, and loss by the author of Three Day RoadWill Bird is a legen… read more
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"Mother Nature was one angry slut. She'd try and kill you the first chance she got. You'd screwed with her for so long that she was happy to eliminate you."-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
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"I passed the friendship centre and nodded to an old couple on the porch. Kookum smiled back and nodded, a cotton kerchief on her head. Moshum's eyes squinted, too, but never looked straight at me, ju…"-Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (Bird Family Trilogy, #2)
6. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
By: Stephen Leacock
3.73
Format: 114 pages, Paperback
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"Pepperleigh always read the foreign news -- the news of things that he couldn't alter -- as a form of wild and stimulating torment."-Stephen Leacock, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
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7. Why Loiter?: Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets
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3.70
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4.06
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9. Solomon Gursky Was Here
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4.04
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Berger, son of the failed poet L.B. Berger, is in the grips of an obsession. The Gursky family with… read more
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10. तमस/Tamas
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aazaadii ke tthiik phle saaNprdaayiktaa kii baisaakhiyaaN lgaakr paashviktaa kaa jo nNgaa naac is d… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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"I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it ... But there is nothing in this world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the s…"-Joseph Boyden, The Orenda (Bird Family Trilogy, #3)
"But why?" Gabriel asks. "Why do they wish to cause such pain to another human?" "Why does the Spanish Inquisition do what it does?" I ask. "Why does our own Church burn witches at the stake? Why did …"-Joseph Boyden, The Orenda (Bird Family Trilogy, #3)
15. A Suitable Boy (A Suitable Boy, #1)
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3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
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16. Such a Long Journey
By: Rohinton Mistry
3.96
Format: 408 pages, Hardcover
It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working… read more
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"The pavement artist thought for a bit, then agreed. 'I can start tomorrow morning.' 'Good, good. But one question. Will you be able to draw enough to cover 300 feet? I mean, do you know enough differ…"-Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
"But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pavement project he had yet undertaken, it made him restless. Over the years, a precise cycle had ent…"-Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
17. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
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18. Sacred Games
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4.10
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19. The Hungry Tide
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21. There Was Still Love
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The profoundly moving new novel from the critically acclaimed and Miles Franklin shortlisted author… read more
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"Lots of rules are pointless,' he said, 'you don't have to follow everything. Make your own mind up about what is right."-Favel Parrett, There Was Still Love
