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Title: Suite
Francaise
Author: Irene Nemirovsky
Price: Rs 300
A literary time capsule, Suite Française is a novel about
wartime occupation written during the Nazi occupation of France.
Irène Némirovsky's unfinished manuscript has been
published more than 60 years after her death to worldwide acclaim.
Even without its historical significance, this is a mesmerizing
novel about a time, place, and condition most of us cannot imagine;
the facts behind the fiction only make it all the more intriguing.
Winner of France's 2004 Prix Renaudot
"Be enthralled by Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky.
A lost masterpieces set in wartime France. Vivid and compelling"
- Woman & Home
"A powerful work, satirical yet humane, with a poignant
awareness of transient happiness"
- Sunday Telegraph, rev'd by Katie Owen
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Title: The
Book Thief
Author: Marcus Zusak
Price: Rs 395
Set during World War II in Germany, Markus Zusak's groundbreaking
new novel is the story of Liesel Meminger, a foster girl living
outside of Munich. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for
herself by stealing when she encounters something she can't
resist -- books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster
father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with
her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish
man hidden in her basement before he is marched to Dachau.
This is an unforgettable story about the ability of books to
feed the soul.
Unsettling, thought-provoking, life-affirming, triumphant and
tragic, this is a novel of breath-taking scope, masterfully
told...A wonderful page-turner. - The Guardian
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Title: The
Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Author: John Boyne
A story of innocence existing within the most terrible evil,
this is the fictional tale of two young boys
caught up in events beyond their control.
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Title: Salmon
Fishing in the Yemen
Author: Paul Torday
A wealthy Yemeni sheik has a plan to bring salmon fishing to
his people, and British fisheries scientist Alfred Jones has
been 'persuaded' to assist.
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Title: Water
for Elephants
Author: Sarah Gruen
An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed
lovers set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling
author of Riding Lessons.
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Title: Girls
of Riyadh
Author: Rajaa Alsanea
An inside peek into a hidden world: four young women navigate
the narrow straits between love, desire and Islamic tradition.
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Title: A Thousand
Splendid Suns
Author: Khaled Hosseini
Price: Rs 520
A beautiful, heart-wrenching story by the author of 'The Kite
Runner' of an unforgiving time, an unlikely
bond and an indestructible love.
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Title: A Long
Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Author: Ishmael Beah
Price: Rs 295
The first-person account of a 25-year-old who fought in the
war in Sierra Leone as a 12-year-old boy.
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Title: The
Memory Keeper's Daughter
Author: Kim Edwards
Price: Rs 295
A remarkable novel about parallel lives, familial secrets, and
the redemptive power of love.
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Title: The
Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Price: Rs 360
An unconventional love story that centers on a man with a genetic
disorder that causes him to
unpredictably time-travel and his wife who has to cope with
his frequent absences.
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Title: The
Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Price: Rs 195
The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly
imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the
father and his son, `each other's world entire', are sustained
by love.
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Title: Measuring
the World
Author: Daniel Kehlmann
Price: Rs 395
A historical novel about the naturalist and explorer Alexander
von Humboldt and the mathematician and physicist Carl Gauss.
It brings the two eccentric geniuses to life, their longings
and their weaknesses, their balancing act between loneliness
and love, absurdity and greatness, failure and success.
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Title: The
Reluctant Fundamentalist
Author: Mohsin Hamid
Price: Rs 295
At a cafe table in Lahore, a Pakistani man begins the tale that
has led to his fateful meeting with an uneasy American stranger
...
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Title:
A Tale of Love and Darkness
Author: Amos Oz
Price: Rs 445
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Title:
Maus & Maus II
Author: Art Spiegelman
Price: Rs 475
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Title:
The Stranger
Author: Albert Camus
Price: Rs 275
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Title:
Shantaram
Author: Greg Roberts
Price: Rs 490
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Title:
The Known World
Author: Edward Jones
Price: Rs 515
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Title:
Snow
Author: Orhan Pamuk
Price: Rs 270
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Title:
One Shot
Author: Lee Child
Price: Rs 250
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Title:
The Shadow of Wind
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Price: Rs 135
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Title:
The Kite Runner
Author: Khalid Hosseini
Price: Rs 315
“Set against the backdrop of political turmoil in Afghanistan,
this is a remarkable debut novel about loss and betrayal, about
love and longing, about forgiveness and redemption.”
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Title:
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe
Author: Fannie Flagg
Price: Rs 250
“A warm and enjoyable story - I enjoyed it very much.” |
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Title:
Adrian Mole: The Cappucino Years
Author: Sue townsend
Price: Rs 520
"Good for many laughs and some two score chuckles; Adrian Mole
fans won't be disappointed."
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Title:
White Teeth
Author: Zadie Smith
Price: Rs 295
“A brilliant debut that simply rollicks along with amazing energy,
both funny and serious, with characters of different colours,
religions and temperaments in multicultural Britain. As Rushdie
puts it, ‘It has bite.’ ”
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Title:
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
Author: Peter Hoeg
Price: Rs 425
“An unusual whodunit about the death of a small boy, this is
a work of extraordinary power and depth – richly satisfying.”
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Title:
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Price: Rs 250
“Widely acclaimed as one of the greatest books of the 20th century,
it tells the fascinating rise and fall of the town of Mocondo
through the history of the Buendia family. In it we see the
rich variety of life and death, beauty and cruelty, love and
lust, and the search for peace and truth – the universal story
of humanity. Written with brilliant originality and rare imagination,
this is the work that won Marquez international fame. He was
awarded the Nobel Prize in 1982."
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Title:
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Author: Milan Kundera
Price: Rs 265
“Kundera's masterful novel tells the stories of four relationships,
with the focus on Tomas, a man torn between his love for his
wife Tereza, and his incorrigible infidelity, particularly his
long-time affair with the painter Sabina. The world of Kundera's
novel is one in which, because everything occurs only once and
then disappears into the past, existence seems to lose its substance
and weight. Coping with both the consequences of their own actions
and desires and the intruding demands of society and the state,
Kundera's characters struggle to construct lives of individual
value and lasting meaning.”
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Title:
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Author: Harper Lee
Price: Rs 255
“Set in a small Southern US town during the Depression years,
this timeless classic explores the themes of justice, courage,
race, and the pains of growing up. The story is told through
the eyes of a white 8 year-old girl Scout Finch, whose father
Atticus decides to defend a black man accused of raping a white
woman. Achingly tender and wise, this is a book that will touch
you deeply, and will be as relevant a hundred years hence.”
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Title:
Twelve Bar Blues
Author: Patrick Neate
Price: Rs 425
"My best book of 2002. If you like Jazz and good storytelling,
this is a must read."
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Title:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Author: Mark Haddon
Price: Rs 225
"Narrated by a fifteen-year-old autistic savant obsessed with
Sherlock Holmes, this brilliant novel weaves together an old-fashioned
mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating
excursion into a mind capable of processing emotions. It has
been one of the freshest debut in years, a novel of exceptional
literary merit that is great fun to read, for children and adults
alike." Winner of Literary Fiction Award and Children's Book
of the Year - British Book Awards 2003, Winner of Whitbread
Literary Fiction Award
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Title:
Independence Day
Author: Richard Ford
Price: Rs 250
“44 year-old Frank Bascombe, a sportswriter turned real-estate
agent, lives alone in his former wife’s house that he now owns.
Still in love with his former wife, and not over the separation
that happened 8 years earlier, he lives a quiet, almost sheltered
life, neither deeply unhappy nor happy. His fifteen-year-old
son Paul though is emotionally troubled, and has been caught
shoplifting. On a 4th of July weekend Frank takes his son on
a trip to various sports Halls of Fame, a visit that transforms
both. Ford’s luminous prose captures the various nuances and
shades of life unforgettably; it won him the 1996 Pulitzer Prize.”
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Title:
American Pastoral
Author: Philip Roth
Price: Rs 445
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Title:
Straight Man
Author: Richard Russo
Price: Rs 395
“A humourous and entertaining novel about academic life in a
‘second rate’ American university. Hank Devereaux Jr. is the
kind of guy who turns anything serious into a joke. Pushing
50, he's the interim chair of a squabbling English department
at a small rural college. Big budget cuts are rumored and each
department chair has been told to provide a list of those who
will lose their jobs. His department believes that Hank has
prepared such a list, but he hasn't and won't. Unexpectedly,
he finds himself on television and spontaneously jokes that
he will kill one campus goose a day until the administration
gives…”
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Title:
Civil Lines
Author: Various
Price: Rs 110
"Civil Lines 5 has two outstanding contributions on Kashmir
and the partition by Sonia Jabbar and Urvashi Butalia respectively.
Anita Roy's marvelous piece on the writer Harold Brodkey, short
stories by Amit Chaudhari, Amitava Kumar, Avtar Singh, Mina
Kumar and Suketu Mehta and more."
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Title:
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
Author: Italo Calvino
Price: Rs 320
"Brilliantly original and ingenious, this book recounts the
joys of reading and the difficulties of writing. Both reader
and writer are central characters and embark on a mad, provocative
journey into a literay rabbit hole."
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Title:
The Daughter of Fortune
Author: Isabelle Allende
Price: Rs 266
An enjoyable story of love and adventure.
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Title:
The Fountainhead & Atlas Shrugged
Author: Ayn Rand
Price: Rs 304
Having read and enjoyed them when I was in college, I recommend
them to those in college or recently passed out. Both books
showcase Rand's philosophy of 'Objectivism' and of the virtues
of individualism.
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Title:
There's No Such Place as Far Away
Author: Richard Bach
Price: Rs 425
A simple, elegant fable about the power of friendship and love.
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Title:
Illusions
Author: Richard Bach
Price: Rs 226
A stimulating account of an encounter with a modern day messiah,
who provides insights into the mystery that is our life.
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Title:
Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
Author: Richard Bach
Price: Rs 221
This is a wonderful and inspiring fable about freedom and flight,
about the magic ot believing in ourselves and overcoming limitations.
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Title:
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance : An Enquiry into
Values
Author: Robert Pirsig
Price: Rs 235
This is the story of a man's quest for truth, as he journeys
across the country on his motorcycle with his 11 year old son.
An original, insighful book.
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Title:
Animal Farm
Author: George Orwell
Price: Rs 318
An engaging fable of a worker's revolution gone wrong, this
is a classic work of modern political satire.
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Title:
1984
Author: George Orwell
Price: Rs 260
The definitive work on 'Negative Utopia', it depicts a haunting
and utterly convincing world that I am thankful I don't live
in. One of the great books to read and own.
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Title:
Bridget Jones's Diary
Author: Helen Fielding
Price: Rs 265
"The vicariously enjoyable diary of a single thirty-something
woman's trials and tribulations over a period of a year in London."
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