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The Sari Shop
Young Ramchand rushes through the dusty streets of Amritsar, once again late for work. Chastised by his boss, he takes his place among the cottons and silks of the sari shop, selling yards of cloth to the wealthy and fashionable women of the town. Offered a glimpse of a more opulent world, Ramchand is seduced by the idea that he might somehow better himself. But making dreams real will come at a price that a poor shop assistant might not be able to pay � Funny, compelling and unflinchingly honest, The Sari Shop is a heartbreaking story of a young man�s struggle to be someone else and a brilliantly clear-sighted debut.
Sari Shop
A gem of a novel about the stuff life's made of It is another working day in Amritsar, and Ramchand is late again. He runs through the narrow streets to Sevak Sari House, buried in the heart of one of the city's main bazaars. There, amongst the Bangladesh cottons and Benaras silks, Ramchand and his fellow shop assistants sit all day, patiently rolling and unrolling yards of coloured fabric. Then, one afternoon, Ramchand is sent to a new part of the city with a bundle of saris carefully selected for a trousseau. His trip to Kapoor House jolts him out of the rhythm of his daily routine and his glimpse into this different world charges him with an urgent sense of possibility. And so, armed with...
Fiction Across Borders
Theorists of Orientalism and postcolonialism argue that novelists betray political and cultural anxieties when characterizing "the Other." Shameem Black takes a different stance. Turning a fresh eye toward several key contemporary novelists, she reveals how "border-crossing" fiction represents socially diverse groups without resorting to stereotype, idealization, or other forms of imaginative constraint. Focusing on the work of J. M. Coetzee, Amitav Ghosh, Jeffrey Eugenides, Ruth Ozeki, Charles Johnson, Gish Jen, and Rupa Bajwa, Black introduces an interpretative lens that captures the ways in which these authors envision an ethics of representing social difference. They not only offer sympa...
The Poison of Love
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A Good Indian Wife: A Novel
"An absorbing tale of contrasts…Cherian tells the story with quiet strength." —San Francisco Chronicle Handsome anesthesiologist Neel is sure he can resist his family’s pleas that he marry a "good" Indian girl. With a girlfriend and a career back in San Francisco, the last thing Neel needs is an arranged marriage. But that’s precisely what he gets. His bride, Leila, a thirty-year-old teacher, comes with her own complications. They struggle to reconcile their own desires with others’ expectations in this story of two people, two countries, and two ways of life that may be more compatible than they seem.
The Pleasure Principle
In The Pleasure Principle – The Amaryllis Book of Erotic Stories, editor G.Sampath brings together fifteen of the finest contemporary fiction writers on a singular thematic platform: erotica. These are tales that explore the glories of romance, eroticism and much more. From homoerotic and transgender to bisexual and straight.This anthology covers a wide variety of erotica. Quite a few of the stories in The Pleasure Principle cover new ground even in ‘straight’ territory. The irrepressible Taslima Nasrin subtly brings out the unexpected transmutations of online lust when it goes offline; Meena Kandasamy tells us about the sex tapes of our ancient gods, Jaishree Misra’s story brings out the yearnings of an elderly widower, while Cyrus Mistry explores the forbidden desires of a middle-aged school teacher – these are just some of the erotic sub-themes explored in the anthology. Other contributors include such distinguished names like Tabish Khair, Amitava Kumar, Shinie Antony, Krishna Shastri Devulapalli, Rupa Bajwa, Amrita Chatterjee, Kankana Basu, Aditya Sharma, Vikram Kapur and Kristen Cosby.
World Literature: A Non-British Approach
This book has been designed to help the students who prepare for competitive exams like UGC NET, SET/SLET, PGT, Assistant Professor Exams, etc. Every important writer across the world has been covered in this book. The Caribbean, African, Canadian, Australian, German, French, Russian, Italian, Greek, Roman, New Zealandia, and several other writers have been given in the book.
Indian English Literature
This book has been designed to help the students who want to crack the exams like NET JRF, SET SLET, TGT PGT, etc. It contains several writers and their important works in detail that is useful and exam-oriented. Once you read it, you will recommend this book to others, this is expected.
Shared Waters
The present volume contains general essays on: unequal African/Western academic exchange; the state and structure of postcolonial studies; representing male violence in Zimbabwe's wars; parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand; Middle Eastern, Nigerian, Moroccan, and diasporic Indian women's writing; community in post-Independence Maltese poetry in English; key novels of the Portuguese colonies; the TV series The Kumars at No. 42; fictional representations of India; the North in western Canadian writing; and a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature. As well as these, there is a selection of poems from Malta by Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Norbert Bugeja, Immanuel Mifsud, an...
