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THE BEGUM AND THE DASTAN
₨ 1,195In 1897 in the princely state of Sherpur, Feroza Begum, beautiful and wilful, defies her family to attend the sawani celebrations at Nawab Shams Ali Khan’s Benazir Palace. Feroza is kidnapped and detained in the Nawab’s glittering harem, her husband is forced to divorce her, and her family disowns her. Reluctantly, Feroza marries the Nawab, and is compelled to negotiate the glamour and sordidness of the harem.
In the bazaar chowk, Kallan Mirza, a skilled dastango, spins a hauntingly familiar tale of a despotic sorcerer, Tareek Jaan, and his grand illusory city, the Tilism-e-Azam, where women are confined in underground basements. As Kallan descends deeper into an opium addiction, the boundaries of fantasy and reality begin to blur.
And in the present day, Ameera listens to Dadi narrating the tale of Feroza Begum, Ameera’s great-grandmother. Confined to her house because her parents haven’t paid her school fees, Ameera takes comfort from Dadi’s story. As her world disintegrates, she is compelled to ask herself if anything has changed for Sherpur’s women.
ISBN: 9789698729622
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
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Author: TARANA HUSAIN KHAN -
PERCY JACKSON
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ISBN: 9780141346847
Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE
Subtitle: AND THE SEA OF MONSTERS
Author: RICK RIORDAN -
WE WERE THE LUCKY ONES
₨ 1,395Based on the unforgettable story of one family determined to survive war-torn Europe
1939. Three generations of the Kurc family strive to live normal lives despite the growing hardships they face as Jews. But as the realities of war rush to meet them, they are cast to the wind and must do everything they can to find their way through a devastated continent to freedom.
Based on an incredible true story that ranges from pre-war Parisian jazz clubs to the desolation of the Siberian gulag, and follows the Kurc family as refugees, prisoners and fighters, We Were the Lucky Ones is a testament to the notion that even in the darkest of times, the human spirit can find a way to survive, and even triumph.
ISBN: 9780749021986
Publisher: ALLISON & BUSBY LIMITED
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Author: GEORGIA HUNTER -
THE WAR OF THE POOR
₨ 1,245From the internationally bestselling author of The Order of the Day: Eric Vuillard once again takes us behind the scenes at a moment when history was being written.The history of inequality is a long and terrible one. And it’s not over yet. Short, sharp and devastating, The War of the Poor tells the story of a brutal episode from history, not as well known as tales of other popular uprisings, but one that deserves to be told.Sixteenth-century Europe: the Protestant Reformation takes on the powerful and the privileged. Peasants, the poor living in towns, who are still being promised that equality will be granted to them in heaven, begin to ask themselves: and why not equality now, here on earth?There follows a violent struggle. Out of this chaos steps Thomas : a complex and controversial figure, who sided with neither Martin Luther, nor the Roman Catholic Church. Mentzer addressed the poor directly, encouraging them to ask why a God who apparently loved the poor seemed to be on the side of the rich. Eric Vuillard tells the story of one man whose terrible and novelesque life casts light on the times in which he lived ‘ a moment when Europe was in flux. As in his blistering look at the build-up to World War II, The Order of the Day, Vuillard ‘leaves nothing sleeping in the shadows’
ISBN: 9781529038538
Publisher: PICADOR
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Author: ERIC V VILLARD -
MY GREAT COLLECTION: A MYTHOLOGICAL MOSAIC A PANTHEON OF TALES FROM I
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ISBN: 8125902570
Publisher: MADHUBAN EDUCATIONAL BOOKS
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Author: THANGAM KRISHNAN -
THE KINSHIP OF SECRETS
₨ 1,795In 1948 Najin and Calvin Cho, with their young daughter Miran, travel from South Korea to the United States in search of new opportunities. Wary of the challenges ahead, Najin and Calvin make the difficult decision to leave their other daughter, Inja, behind with their extended family; soon, they hope, they will return to her.
But then war breaks out in Korea, and there is no end in sight to the separation. Miran grows up in prosperous American suburbia, under the shadow of the daughter left behind, as Inja grapples in her war-torn land with ties to a family she doesn’t remember. Najin and Calvin desperately seek a reunion with Inja, but are the bonds of love strong enough to reconnect their family over distance, time and war, And as deep family secrets are revealed, will everything they long for be upended?
Told through the alternating perspectives of the distanced sisters, and inspired by a true story, The Kinship of Secrets explores the cruelty of war, the power of hope, and what it means to be a sister.
ISBN: 9781526602855
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
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Author: EUGENIA KIM -
GODSPEED
₨ 1,895Bart, Teddy and Cole have been best friends since childhood. Having founded their own small-town construction company, they yearn to build a legacy, something to leave behind to their families. So when Gretchen Connors, a mysterious millionaire lawyer from California, approaches them with a stunning, almost formidable project in the mountains above their town, the three friends convince themselves it’s the job which will secure their future.
But what is Gretchen hiding from them? And why does the build have to be complete by Christmas, a near-impossible deadline? With the lines between ambition and greed more slippery and dangerous than the three friends ever imagined, how far will they push themselves and what will be the cost of their dream?
ISBN: 9780571362967
Publisher: FABER AND FABER
Subtitle: A NOVEL
Author: NICHOLAS BUTLER -
THE ROVING PARTY
₨ 1,795John Batman, ruthless, singleminded; four convicts, the youngest still only a stripling; Gould, a downtrodden farmhand; two free black trackers; and powerful, educated Black Bill, brought up from childhood as a white man. This is the roving party and their purpose is massacre.
With promises of freedom, land grants and money, each is willing to risk his life for the prize.
Passing over many miles of tortured country, the roving party searches for Aborigines, taking few prisoners and killing freely, Batman never abandoning the visceral intensity of his hunt. And all the while, Black Bill pursues his personal quarry, the much-feared warrior, Manalargena.
ISBN: 9781743314111
Publisher: ALLEN & UNWIN
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Author: ROHAN WILSON -
PARROT AND OLIVIER IN AMERICA
₨ 1,795A dazzling comic masterpiece that reminds us why Peter Carey is Australia’s most internationally acclaimed novelist.
Olivier is a French aristocrat, the child of survivors of the revolution. Parrot, the son of an English printer, is a restless servant. When Olivier sets sail for the New World ostensibly to study its prisons, but in reality to avoid another revolution. Parrot is sent with him, as spy, protector, foe and foil. They are an unlikely pair, but where better for unlikely things to flourish than in the glorious, brand-new democratic experiment, America and who better than Carey to show what Americans do not always wish to see: that their earliest observers included some who foresaw disastrous consequences for that experiment, well before they became headlines around the world.
Author: Peter Carey
ISBN: 9781760896485
ISBN: 9781760896485
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
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THE OTTOMAN SECRET
₨ 3,295PARIS 2017. THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE HAS RULED EUROPE FOR OVER 300 YEARS
As a respected special investigator for the state police, Kamal Agha is committed to keeping the empire safe from threats inside and out. But these are dangerous times in the empire. Under the sultan’s autocratic regime, no one is beyond suspicion.
When a naked man covered in tattoos appears on the banks of the Seine and murders a passerby, Kamal is tasked with tracking him down. But asking too many questions can be a highly risky endeavor-especially when the mysterious man’s trail leads Kamal to a secret buried deep in the empire’s past, a secret that goes to the very core of the empire’s success. A secret the sultan and his security services will do anything to silence.
Kamal is forced to question his own loyalty when his own family attracts unwelcome attention from the security services. Soon, he has no choice but to flee. But on the run from the all-seeing organisation with which he made his reputation, can he save himself and his family?
And, if he does, what might that mean for the existence of the Empire itself? Its past, it’s present and its future …
ISBN: 9780241371169 AUTHOR: RAYMOND KHOURY
ISBN: 9780241371169
Publisher: MICHAEL JOSEPH
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PERCY JACKSON AND THE BATTLE OF THE LABYRINTH
₨ 1,195Percy Jackson isn’t expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears at his potential new school, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse. In this fourth installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos’s army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth – a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn.
ISBN: 9780141346830
AUTHOR: RICK RIORDAN
ISBN: 9780141346830
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
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AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED
₨ 1,295An Amazon Best Book of the Month, May 2013: Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed begins simply enough, with a father recounting a folktale to his two young children. The tale is about a young boy who is taken by a div (a sort of ogre), and how that fate might not be as terrible as it first seems a brilliant device that firmly sets the tone for the rest of this sweeping, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel. A day after he tells the tale of the div, the father gives away his own daughter to a wealthy man in Kabul. What follows is a series of stories within the story, told through multiple viewpoints, spanning more than half a century, and shifting across continents. The novel moves through war, separation, birth, death, deceit, and love, illustrating again and again how people’s actions, even the seemingly selfless ones, are shrouded in ambiguity. This is a masterwork by a master storyteller. Chris Schluep
ISBN: 9781594631764
AUTHOR: KHALED HOSSEINI
ISBN: 9781594631764
Publisher: RIVERHEAD
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NIGHT OF THE GOLDEN BUTTERFLY
₨ 1,595ight of the Golden Butterfly concludes the Islam Quintet Tariq Ali’s much lauded series of historical novels, translated into more than a dozen languages, that has been twenty years in the writing. Completing an epic panorama that began in fifteenth-century Moorish Spain, the latest novel moves between the cities of the twenty-first century, from Lahore to London, from Paris to Beijing. The narrator is rung one morning and reminded that he owes a debt of honour.
ISBN: 9781781680063
AUTHOR: TARIQ ALI
ISBN: 9781781680063
Publisher: VERSO
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL
₨ 2,495Every year at the holidays, the historic Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan displays one of the crown jewels of its extraordinary collection: the original manuscript of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, with its detailed emendations, deletions, and insertions in Dickens’s own hand. Here, for the first time in a beautiful trade edition, A Christmas Carol: The Original Manuscript Edition presents a facsimile of that invaluable manuscript, along with a typeset version of the story, a fascinating introduction by the Morgan’s chief literary curator on the history of the story, and a new foreword by Colm ToibIn celebrating its timeless appeal.
ISBN: 9780393608649
Publisher: W. W. NORTON & COMPANY
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Author: CHARLES DICKENS -
THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS
₨ 1,6955th January 1800. At the beginning of a new century, Alma Whittaker is born into a perfect Philadelphia winter. Her father, Henry Whittaker, is a bold and charismatic botanical explorer whose vast fortune belies his lowly beginnings as a vagrant in Kew Gardens. Alma’s mother, a strict woman from an esteemed Dutch family, is conversant in five living languages (and two dead ones) and her knowledge of botany is equal to any man’s. An independent girl with a thirst for knowledge, it is not long before Alma comes into her own within the world of plants and science. As Alma’s careful studies of moss take her deeper into the mysteries of evolution, the man she comes to love draws her in the opposite direction – into the realm of the spiritual, the divine, and the magical. Alma is a clear-minded scientist; Ambrose is a Utopian artist. But what unites this couple is a shared passion for knowing – a desperate need to understand the workings of this world and the mechanisms behind all of life. The Signature of All Things is a big novel, about a big century. It soars across the globe from London, to Peru, to Philadelphia, to Tahiti, to Amsterdam. Peopled with extraordinary characters – missionaries, abolitionists, adventurers, astronomers, sea captains, geniuses and the quite mad – most of all it has an unforgettable heroine in Alma Whittaker, a woman of the Enlightened Age who stands defiantly on the cusp of the modern.
ISBN: 9781408850114
AUTHOR: ELIZABETH GILBERT
ISBN: 9781408850114
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
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THE LIEUTENANT
₨ 2,495Daniel Rooke, soldier and astronomer, was always an outsider. As a young lieutenant of marines he arrives in New South Wales on the First Fleet in 1788, and sees his chance. He sets up his observatory away from the main camp, and begins the scientific work that he hopes will make him famous.Aboriginal people soon start to visit his isolated promontory, and a child named Tagaran begins to teach him her language. With meticulous care he records their conversations.An extraordinary friendship forms, and Rooke has almost forgotten he is a soldier when a man is fatally wounded in the infant colony. The lieutenant faces a decision that will define not only who he is but the course of his entire life. In this profoundly moving novel Kate Grenville returns to the landscape of her much-loved bestseller The Secret River. Inspired by the notebooks of William Dawes, The Lieutenant is a compelling story about friendship and self-discovery by a writer at the peak of her powers.
ISBN: 9781921351785
AUTHOR: KATE GRENVILLE
ISBN: 9781921351785
Publisher: TEXT PUBLISHING MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA
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WAR AND PEACE
₨ 1,695War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon’s war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy’s view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters.
Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy’s philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery. This translation is one which received Tolstoy’s approval.
ISBN: 9781853260629
AUTHOR: LEO TOLSTOY
ISBN: 9781853260629
Publisher: WORDSWORTH CLASSIC
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HIROSHIMA AND OTHER STORIES
₨ 995“This is a fascinating book, elegantly translated into English by Shama Askari. It comprises a novella and 13 short stories with two being the author’s own translation. Written by Ibn-e-Sa’id (better known to his contemporaries as M.H. Askari), these literary compositions. are unique in many ways. Ibn-e-Sa’id started his career in the closing years of the Second World War as an officer in the public relations department of the British Indian Army. From there he got a ringside view of the war and the surrender of Japan. He also personally experienced the sensitivity of his Indian colleagues fighting for a power that had occupied their own country and forced the war on them. Ibn-e-Sa’id also witnessed the start of the age of decolonization and how these events led to the break-up of societies. Most of the stories are written against this backdrop and subtly capture the paradoxes and nuances of these extraordinary global developments. The author’s insight into politics, society and human nature is so profound that his writing is no less than prescient, considering that these stories were written more than six decade ago. We read about a princely state and its Muslim elites and their Baray Sarkar who are so detached from their own non-Muslim population in lifestyle and culture that they appear to show more allegiance to their departing foreign rulers. A story openly describes the financial corruption that accompanies business deals in this time of transition. There is actually a Mister Five Percent involved in a sugar mill transaction. The polarization and globalization of politics and the return of racism emerge in many stories. Ibn-e-Sa’id’s book must be read for us to understand what is happening in Pakistan today.” Zubeida Mustafa Journalist and author “Ibn-e-Sa’id’s fictions are an invaluable addition to the growing body of rediscovered Urdu literature. His stories, many of them set in South East and East Asia during the Second World War, are elegantly crafted and bear the hallmark of lived experience. His short novels are gripping and unusual. It is a delight and a revelation to see so much of this fine author’s work in translation in this generous selection of long and short stories:’ Aamer Hussein Author.
Author: ASIF FARRUKHI
ISBN: 9789697161591
ISBN: 9789697161591
Publisher: LIGHTSTONE PUBLISHERS
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PARADISE LOST
₨ 995At possibly one of the worst periods in the history of the former state of Jammu and Kashmir, Nizam Shah has produced his memoirs of a Kashmiri in Pakistan. It charts his childhood in Kashmir in the period leading onto the partition of British India into two successor states, and the bloody legacy of a divided Kashmir which would continue to confront the author during a lifetime spent in South Asia. The memoir is remarkable because it negotiates penetrating insights within the transition from a nascent flame of Kashmiriyat to a full-fledged participation within the power structure of Pakistan’s new commercial and societal elites. His wit, elegance and sense of irony never desert him in his new homeland. But a feeling of pain is woven into the words and narratives of this remarkable memoir.
Author: SYED NIZAM SHAH
ISBN: 9789692101110
ISBN: 9789692101110
Publisher: PARAMOUNT BOOKS
Subtitle: A JOURNEY FROM KASHMIR TO KARACHI
Author: SYED NIZAM SHAH -
ANIMAL FARM
₨ 299A revolution is brewing among the animals of Manor Farm and one fine day they overthrow the owner Mr. Jones. The farm is renamed Animal Farm: Having vanquished Man, animals are on their own and they adopt Seven Commandments of Animalism: 1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 3. animal shall wear clothes. 4. animal shall sleep in a bed. 5. animal shall drink alcohol. 6. animal shall kill any other animal. 7. All animals are equal. But then a controlling elite develops among animals and soon come the amendments; one by one; and the most important of them is all animals are equal – but some are more equal than others. It is the history of a revolution that went wrong, Orwell wrote describing his novel Animal Farm. Written allegorically to reflect upon the Russian Revolution up to Stalin era, Animal Farm is one of the finest novels ever written in English language.
Author: GEORGE ORWELL
ISBN: 9786275100348
ISBN: 9786275100348
Publisher: READINGS
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Author: GEORGE ORWELL