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4) The Konkans
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Ria Parkar is Bollywood's favorite Ice Princess--beautiful, poised, and scandal-proof--until one impulsive act threatens to expose her destructive past. Traveling home to Chicago for her cousin's wedding offers a chance to diffuse the coming media storm and find solace in family, food, and outsized celebrations that are like one of her vibrant movies come to life. But it also means confronting Vikram Jathar. Ria and Vikram spent childhood summers...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ajay and Birju play cricket in the streets of Delhi, waiting for the day their plane tickets will arrive. Finally joining their father in America, Ajay and Birju enjoy their new, extraordinary life in New York. Then tragedy strikes, leaving one brother incapacitated and the other practically orphaned in this strange land.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a boxy apartment building in an Illinois university town, Romola Mitra, a newly arrived young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades letter, her son Amit finds that letter and thinks he has discovered his mother's secret. But secrets have their own secrets sometimes.
Author
Language
English
Description
Widow Pival Sengupta is a quietly determined Bengali woman intent on leaving Kolkata for the first time to discover what really happened to her son, Rahi. After Rahi came out as gay nearly a year ago, Pival's late husband told her that Rahi had died suddenly. But she refuses to believe. Satya Roy is a young, inexperienced travel guide--chosen by his boss to lead Pival on the First Class India USA Destination Vacation Tour under the guise of being...
10) The rumor game
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
471 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
At Foxham Prep, a posh private school for Washington, D.C.'s elite, a rumor gains momentum as it collects followers on social media, pulling three girls into its path--Bryn, who wants to erase all memories of the mistake she made last summer; cheer captain Cora, who desperately wants to believe in her boyfriend's faithfulness; and shy Georgie, newly hot after a summer at fat camp and ready to reinvent herself--but who can stop a dangerous rumor once...
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Abhijat is a theoretical physicist from India, working at the National Accelerator Research Laboratory in Illinois. His wife, Sarala, home with their daughter, Meena, struggles to assimilate to their new American culture. Meena's best friend Lily is a precocious child prodigy whose mother, a local politician, becomes entangled in efforts to stop to the National Accelerator Research Laboratory's plans to build a new superconducting supercollider. The...
Author
Language
English
Description
"An astonishingly assured debut from an award-winning writer, an emotionally rich portrait of contemporary India and its diaspora and a yearning rendering of the people and places we call home. Vivid, vibrant, and unwaveringly affecting, The Best Possible Experience brings us intimate, impeccably realized accounts of individuals living in one of the most populous countries in the world, and its American diaspora, all haunted, in every sense of the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spies about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another--a masterful, brilliant tale of a family both united and torn apart by ambition and love. The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Raised in India, Seema is the beloved daughter of a commanding, erudite, Romantic-poetry-loving doctor father who cut her off when she came out to him as a lesbian. Now living alone in San Francisco, estranged from her African American ex-husband, Seema is one week away from delivering a baby boy, Ishraaq. Ishraaq's arrival has brought to Seema's side, for the first time in 15 years, her terminally ill mother, Nafeesa, and her devoutly religious,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Alfred A. Knopf edition.
Physical Desc
304 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Reminiscent of Teju Cole, Sebald, and Berger--Kumar's novel follows a young immigrant in search of love: across dividing lines, between cultures, between sexes, and between the particular desires of one man and the women loves. Kailash is from India. His American friends call him Kalashnikov, or AK. He takes it in stride: he wants to fit in, to shine. In his years at university in New York, Kailash describes the joys and disappointments of his immigrant...
16) The caretaker
Author
Series
Ranjit Singh novel volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ranjit Singh, a former Indian Army Captain trying to escape a shameful past, lives with his family among the migrant workers of Martha's Vineyard, working as a caretaker of the vacation homes of the rich and powerful. Needing a place to stay, Ranjit moves his family into an empty Senator's home. Happily, but illegally ensconced in the house, he tries to forget his brief affair with Anna, the wife of an African-American senator, and focus on providing...
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