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Boman Desai
A Woman Madly in Love
Roli Books; New Delhi, India; 2004; 8174363076 / 9788174363077; First Edition; Hard Cover; New; New; 8.5 x 5.5 Inches National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi
Farida Cooper is too shocked by her husband's treachery even to talk about it, but in hiding her shame succeeds only in denying the damage to herself and making casualties of others, among them an infatuated seventeen-year-old boy. Farida is vivacious, voluptuous, intelligent, and rich, not to mention spoiled, selfish, and talented (she paints, writes novels, plays the piano), but her life is hardly as rosy as the appearance suggests. Her father, too wealthy to care what others think, makes a hobby of chasing women. Her mother grows rigid and unloving in consequence. Farida's saving grace is her Kaki with whom she lives after her sixth birthday, but this also heightens the sense of her parents' indifference, and she learns to show nothing of her feelings. Instead, her feelings erupt later in a series of disastrous choices. Her story shuttles between Bombay and Chicago, spanning the years from World War II to the Eighties, illuminating along the way themes of love and marriage, feminism and friendship, art and academia. Printed Pages: 432. 001066
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Shashi Tharoor
Bookless in Baghdad: And Other Writings About Reading
Viking; New Delhi, India; 2005; 0670058203 / 9780670058204; First Edition; Hard Cover; New; New;
Shashi Tharoor began reading books—Enid Blyton’s Noddy series—when he was three. By the time he was ten, he had published his first work of fiction, Operation Bellows, a credulity-stretching saga of an Anglo-Indian fighter pilot. In between were years when he read a book a day. And in the years since, he has published eight books and written for many Indian and foreign publications. Bookless in Baghdad brings together pieces written over the past decade by this compulsive reader and prolific writer on the subject closest to his heart: reading. In these essays on books, authors, reviews, critics, literary festivals, literary aspirants, Empire, and India, Tharoor takes us on a delightful journey of discovery. He wanders the ‘book souk’ in a Baghdad under sanctions where the middle-class are selling their volumes so that they can afford to live; analyses the Indianness of Salman Rushdie; discusses P.G. Wodehouse’s enduring popularity in India; and drives around Huesca looking to pay an idiosyncratic tribute to George Orwell. There are excursions into the pitfalls of reviewing, explorations of the ‘anxiety of audience’ of Indian English writers, and a wicked account of how Norman Mailer dealt with a negative review. Printed Pages: 248. 010426
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Penguin Books India
First Proof: The Penguin Book of New Writing from India 1
Penguin; New Delhi, India; 2005; 0143032445 / 9780143032441; First Edition; Paperback; New; 13 Cms x 20 Cms
An anthology of new writing and new writers, and established writers writing in a new genre, First Proof showcases original and brilliant non-fiction and fiction and will be an annual publication. The collection includes works in progress, essays, short stories and a graphic short. Among the non-fiction pieces in this volume is an account of a childhood in boarding school, a portrait of Naipaul on his first visit to India in the 60s, reportage on Sri Lanka, the RSS, a don in Bihar, an essay on the Bollywood vamp, and glimpses of Kashmir. Fiction includes themes of incest, suicide, love, lust, familial bonds, human relationships, loneliness, dysfunctional people and a graphic vignette with London as a backdrop. Printed Pages: 440. 011593
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Chandani Lokuge (edited with an introduction)
Toru Dutt: Collected Prose and Poetry
Oxford University Press; New Delhi, India; 2006; 0195666682 / 9780195666687; First Edition; Hardbound; New; New; 14 Cms x 22 Cms
Toru Dutt (1856 - 77) pioneered the Indian women's English literary tradition in the mid-nineteenth century. This volume of her collected works includes two of her novels, a book of poetry and one other published poem, and a selection of her letters, along with a historical critical Introduction by Chandani Lokuge. Printed Pages: 420. 013227
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