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Fiction 2001 - True History of the Kelly Gang
Price: Rs 292
The author gives us Ned Kelly an orphan, as Oedipus, as horse
thief, farmer, bushranger, reformer, bank-robber, police-killer
and as his country's Robin Hood.
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Fiction 2000 - The Blind Assassin
Price: Rs 255
At the end of her life, Iris Griffen takes
up her pen to record the secret history of her family. The central
enigma of Iris's tale is the death of her sister, Laura Chase,
who "drove a car off a bridge" at the end of the Second World
War. Suicide or accident? The story gradually unfolds....
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Literature 2001 - Half A Life
Price: Rs 395
In a corner of India untouched by anti-colonial agitation Willy
Chandran's father stood at odds with the world-aspiring to greatens
whilst living out the dreary life marked out for him by his
ancestors.
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Literature 2000 - Soul Mountain
Price: Rs 295
In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter
Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced death.But,
a second examination revealed there was no cancer. Faced with
a repressive cultural environment, Gao fled Beijing and began
a journey of 15,000 kilometers into the remote mountains and
ancient forests of Sichuan in southwest China. Order
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Fiction 2002 - Empire Falls
Price: Rs 286
In the small Maine town of Empire Falls, replete with long defunct
logging and textile mills, the Whiting clan embarks on its inexorable
demise. The family has owned the town and controlled its environment,
economy and inhabitants for generations. Why and how they bring
about their own demise unfolds slowly, character by character, incident
by incident, year by year.
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Fiction 2001 - The Corrections
The Corrections aligns the spectacular dysfunctions of one Midwest
family with the explosive malfunctions of society-at-large.
Alfred's is now discovering the miseries and entropy of Parkinson's
disease. His wife, Enid, refuses to accept the severity of Alfred's
affliction and also faces the disappointments in her life including
her three grown children.
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Fiction 2000 - In America
Price: Rs 292
It's a fictionalization of the American experience of celebrated
Polish actress Helena Modrzejewska (here named Maryna Dembowska):
first, as queen of an entourage; next, as center star on a spectacularly
successful extended tour; then as working partner with American
thespian Edwin Booth.
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Best Novel 2001 - Hary Potter and the Goblet
of Fire
Price: Rs 329
J.K. Rowling offers up equal parts danger and delight and any
number of dragons, house-elves, and death-defying challenges.
Now 14, her orphan hero has only two more weeks with his Muggle
relatives before returning to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry.
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Best Novel 2000 - A Deepness in the Sky
Thirty thousand years before the events of A Fire Upon the
Deep, Pham Nuwen is living in anonymity among the Qeng Ho
interstellar trading fleet. In high orbit above the planet Arachna,
they wait for the awakening of its dormant population, the Spiders,
for when the light returns, Arachna will at long last explode
into a Golden Age of technology and commerce.
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Fiction 2000 - The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes
Price: Rs 150
In 1981, a horrified British public learnt that Sherlock Holmes
- had perished at the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Two
years later, popular demand made Conan Doyle resurrect the great
detective: Holmes informs a stunned Dr Watson 'I travelled two
years in Tibet.' Jamyang Korbu, decides to take the matter in
his hands; to investigate Holmes's stay in Lhasa, Tibet.
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Indian Language Fiction Translation 2000 -
Karukku
Price: Rs 90
In this unusual autobiography, a young woman, Bama, looks
back on her life from a moment of personal crisis, as she
leaves the religious order to which she has belonged. She
recreates her childhood in her village through a series of
poignant memories and reflections. Most importantly she examines
the simple faith with which she grew up as a Roman Catholic
and restates it in the light of her experience as a Dalit
and a woman.
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