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(P/B) A BURNING
A girl walks through the slums of Kolkata holding an armful of books. She returns home smelling of smoke, and checks her most prized possession: a brand-new smartphone, purchased in instalments. On Facebook, there is only one conversation. #KolabaganTrainAttack On the small, glowing screen, she types a dangerous thing... 'If the police didn't help ordinary people like you and me, if the police watched them die, doesn't that mean that the government is also a terrorist?' Set in contemporary India, A Burning is the story of three unforgettab...
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(P/B) THE HENNA ARTIST
Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman's struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel. Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist-and confidante-to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her o...
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(P/B) WOMEN DREAMING

(P/B) NAMES OF THE WOMEN
Under a predawn sky, humming with starlight and the songs of birds, a group of determined women return to the cave where they have laid the body of their saviour. When they arrive, it is empty. Names of the Women tells the stories of fifteen women whose lives overlapped with the life of Christ. Women who stayed with Christ through the crucifixion, when his disciples had abandoned him, and who spread his radical message - one that made them equals and a profound threat to power within the church. Together, the voices of the women dare us ...
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(P/B) THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS
'How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything.' In a city graveyard, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet between two graves. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby appears quite suddenly, a little after midnight, in a crib of litter. In a snowy valley, a father writes to his five-year-old daughter about the number of people that attended her funeral. And in the Jannat Guest House, two people who've known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around one another as thoug...
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(P/B) THE WHITE TIGER
Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his foetus, but you know his corpse. Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur... murderer. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity,...
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Η ΖΩΗ ΤΩΝ ΑΛΛΩΝ
"Μαμά, έχω κουραστεί να καταναλώνω, να παίρνω, να αρπάζω και να χρησιμοποιώ. Είμαι τόσο φουσκωμένος που νιώθω ότι δεν μπορώ πια να ανασάνω. Φεύγω για να βρω λίγο αέρα, κάποιο μέρος όπου θα μπορέσω να εξαγνιστώ, να αποδιώξω τη ζωή που μου δόθηκε και να φτιάξω τη δική μου. Αισθάνομαι πως ζω σε νοικιασμένο σπίτι. Είναι καιρός να βρω δικό μου... Συγχώρεσέ με..." Καλκούτα 1967. Χωρίς να το έχει προσέξει η οικογένειά του, ο Σουπράτικ έχει εμπλακεί επικίνδυνα στον εξτρεμιστικό πολιτικό ακτιβισμό. Ωθούμενος από την ιδεαλιστική επιθυμία να αλλάξει ...
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Η ΓΙΑΠΩΝΕΖΑ ΣΥΖΥΓΟΣ
Ένας Ινδός στέλνει γράμμα σε μια Γιαπωνέζα. Εκείνη του απαντά. Ερωτεύονται και ανταλλάσσουν όρκους στα γράμματά τους κι ύστερα ζουν σαν αντρόγυνο, χωρίς ποτέ να αντικρίσουν ο ένας τον άλλο - η δια αλληλογραφίας σχέση τους δοκιμάζεται τελικά από εντυπωσιακές ανακατατάξεις της ζωής. Οι δώδεκα ιστορίες αυτής της συλλογής μιλούν για το απροσδόκητο. Ένας Αμερικανός καθηγητής επισκέπτεται την Ινδία, σκοπεύοντας ν' αυτοκτονήσει, και ταξιδεύει στην έρημο, παρέα με την κόρη ενός γητευτή φιδιών. Ένα ζευγάρι Ινδών που διανύει το μήνα του μέλιτος, συ...
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(P/B) A SUITABLE BOY
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND MODERN CLASSIC: NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES A modern classic, this epic tale of families, romance and political intrigue, set in India, never loses its power to delight and enchant readers. At its core, A Suitable Boy is a love story: the tale of Lata - and her mother's - attempts to find her a suitable husband, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. At the same time, it is the story of India, newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis as a sixth of the world's population faces its f...
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(P/B) THE MAHABHARATA
The Mahabharata is some 3,500 years old and is the longest poem in any language. It is one of the founding epics of Indian culture and, with its mixture of cosmic drama and profound philosophy (one small section forms the BHAGHAVAD GITA) it holds aunique place in world literature. In this drastically shortened prose rendering, Narayan uses all his extraordinary talents to convey to a modern reader why this is such a great story. Filled with vivid characters, obsessed with the rise and fall of gods, empires and heroes, Narayan's MAHABHARATA...
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(P/B) DJINN PATROL ON THE PURPLE LINE
We children are not just stories. We live. Come and see. Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a boy at school goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from episodes of Police Patrol to find him. With Pari and Faiz by his side, Jai ventures into some of the most dangerous parts of the sprawling Indian city; the ba...
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(H/B) QUICHOTTE
In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writer of spy thrillers, creates Quichotte, a courtly, addled salesman obsessed with television, who falls in impossible love with the TV star Salman R. Together with his (imaginary) son Sancho, Quichotte sets off on a pica...
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(P/B) THE INHERITANCE OF LOSS
In the foothills of the Himalayas sits a once grand, now crumbling house - home to three people and a dog. There is the retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her clever maths tutor; the cook whose son Biju writes untruthful letters home from New York City; and Mutt, whose bark is worse than her bite. Around the house swirls mountain mist - but also the forces of revolution and change. For a new world is clashing with the old, and the future offers both hope and betrayal... (from t...
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(P/B) GUN ISLAND
Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and experiences of those he meets along the way. There is Piya, a fellow Bengali-American who sets his journey in motion; Tipu, an entrepreneurial young man who opens Deen's eyes to the realities of g...
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(P/B) AMNESTY
A riveting, suspenseful, and exuberant novel from the bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger and Selection Day about a young illegal immigrant who must decide whether to report crucial information about a murder-and thereby risk deportation. Danny-formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam-is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with h...
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(P/B) WHITE TIGER
The iconic Booker Prize-winner: an unforgettable novel of corruption, murder and twisted morality in contemporary India, reissued in a stylish new livery as part of Atlantic's Cult Classics series. Here's a strange fact: murder a man, and you feel responsible for his life - possessive, even. You know more about him than his father and mother; they knew his foetus, but you know his corpse. Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur... murderer. Balram was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the s...
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(P/B) PLASTIC EMOTIONS
Plastic Emotions is inspired by the life of Minnette de Silva - a forgotten feminist icon and one of the most important figures of twentieth century architecture. In a gripping and lyrical story, Shiromi Pinto paints a complex picture of de Silva, charting her affair with infamous Swiss modernist Le Corbusier and her efforts to build an independent Sri Lanka that slowly heads towards political and social turmoil. Moving between London, Chandigarh, Colombo, Paris, and Kandy, Plastic Emotions explores the life of a young, trailblazing South...
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Ο ΟΔΗΓΟΣ
Βιβλία-σταθμοί στην ιστορία της παγκόσμιας λογοτεχνίας, που άφησαν το στίγμα τους και αποτύπωσαν την εποχή τους, γραμμένα από κλασικούς δημιουργούς. Η λογοτεχνική τους αξία και η διαχρονικότητα τόσο της γραφής όσο και των θεμάτων που πραγματεύονται αποτελούν κριτήριο για την ένταξή τους στη συγκεκριμένη σειρά. Ο εξαιρετικός αυτός αφηγητής ξεδιπλώνει την απίστευτη ιστορία ενός οδηγού τουριστών, ο οποίος, μόλις βγαίνει από τη φυλακή, όπου εξέτισε ποινή για απάτες, διαπιστώνει έκπληκτος ότι οι κάτοικοι ενός μικρού χωριού τον θεωρούν πνευματικ...
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(P/B) SLEEPING ON JUPITER
A stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love and violence in the modern world. A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks Indian, yet she is somehow not. The sudden violence of what happens next leaves the other passengers gasping. The train terminates at Jarmuli, a temple town by the sea. Here, among pilgrims, priests and ashrams, three old women disembark only to encounter the girl once again. What is someone like her doi...
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