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Title:
Chowringhee
Author: Sankar
Price: Rs 295
Written by best-selling Bengali author Sankar, Chowringhee was
published as a novel in 1962. Predating Arthur Hailey's Hotel
by three years, it became an instant hit, spawning translations
in major Indian languages, a film and a play. Its larger-than-life
characters-the enigmatic manager Marco Polo, the debonair receptionist
Sata Bose, the tragic hostess Karabi Guha, among others-soon
attained cult status. With its thinly veiled accounts of the
private lives of real-life celebrities, and its sympathetic
narrative seamlessly weaving the past and the present, it immediately
established itself as a popular classic. Available for the first
time in English, Chowringhee is as much a dirge as it is a homage
to a city and its people.
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Title:
Love and Longing in Bombay
Author: Vikram Chandra
Price: Rs 250
"This collection of short stories set in Bombay confirms
that Vikram Chandra is indeed one of our most exciting young
authors."
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Title:
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
Author: Kiran Desai
Price: Rs 250
"Fresh & funny, this is an entertaining tale of a world
gone slightly mad."
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Title:
'The Shadow Lines' & 'In An Antique Land'
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Price: Rs 225
"Wonderful books by one of my favourite Indian (English)
authors."
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Title:
The Glass Palace
Author: Amitav Ghosh
Price: Rs 250
"An engrossing epic novel set in Burma, Malaysia and India,
told over three generations."
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Title:
The Impressionist
Author: Hari Kunzru
Price: 550
"An audacious, impressive debut, this is the story of Pran
Nath, who is half Indian and half English and wholly without
identity. Set in the time of British Raj, this is an energetic,
witty, roller coaster of a novel, which provides insightful
explorations of self and identity."
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Title:
The Village Before Time
Author: Madhavan Kutty
Price: 250
"Filled with memorable characters and situations, this
is the fascinating story of life in a village in Kerala, in
the period before India's independence. A wonderful work"
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Title:
Interpreter of Maladies
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Price: Rs 195
"A great
collection of short stories."
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Title:
The Inscrutable Americans
Author: Anurag Mathur
Price: Rs 95
"The hilarious (mis)adventures of a young man from a small
Indian town in the US of A."
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Title:
A Fine Balance
Author: Rohinton Mistry
Price: Rs 225
"While not a happy book - a struggle for survival rarely
is, it is certainly one of the most important books about India
in English. 'Such a Long Journey' is also excellent."
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Title:
The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Jamyang Norbu
Price: Rs 150
"Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Kipling's Hurre Mookherjee
meet in this epic adventure in Tibet. Brilliant!."
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Title:
Harvest
Author: Manjula Padmanabhan
Price: Rs 300
"A gripping parable of the cannibalistic future the next
millennium might hold for the human race. it doesn't matter
if you don't read plays - try it."
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Title:
The God of Small Things
Author: Arundhati Roy
Price: Rs 250
"One of the most impressive and original books I've read
in a long time. A brilliant novel that launches her alongside
other Booker Prize winners 'Salman Rushdie' and 'Roddy Doyle'."
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Title:
An Equal Music
Author: Vikram Seth
Price: Rs 395
"Highly accomplished - I enjoyed it very much."
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Title:
Ice Candy Man
Author: Bapsi Sidhwa
Price: Rs 250
"The best novel about the partition that I've read."
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Title:
The Death of Vishnu
Author: Manil Suri
Price: Rs 300
"A great debut - one that establishes Manil Suri as one
of our most promising writers."
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