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Author : Samina Ali
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312423308
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Madras on Rainy Days written by Samina Ali and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clashing identities - Muslim and American.
Author : Samina Ali
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429930799
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book Madras on Rainy Days written by Samina Ali and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against the backdrop of the ancient walled city of Hyderabad and mounting Hindu-Muslim tensions, Madras on Rainy Days lyrically evokes the complexities of life behind the chador. A gorgeously written novel by an original new voice in international fiction. Layla is torn among clashing identities--dutiful Muslim daughter and free, independent American woman. When she is nineteen, her parents inform Layla that a marriage has been arranged for her to an Indian man she doesn't know. A stunned Layla submits reluctantly but not before she commits a dangerous, final act of defiance. In the heat and noise of Hyderabad, as her wedding looms, her behavior becomes more and more erratic. Her mother, fearing demonic possession, takes Layla to a Muslim faith-healer, an alim, hoping to exorcise all traces of rebellion. To Layla's surprise, the ancient and elaborate wedding rituals, her groom's physical beauty, and the unexpectedly warm welcome of her new family fill her with a sense of belonging she has never known before. But her honeymoon in Madras soon reveals the full horror of the devil's bargain she has struck.
Author : Jaspal Kaur Singh
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
ISBN 13 : 1552382451
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)
Download or read book Representation and Resistance written by Jaspal Kaur Singh and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representation and Resistance: South Asian and African Women's Texts at Home and in the Diaspora compares colonial and national constructions of gender identity in Western-educated African and South Asian women's texts. Jaspal Kaur Singh argues that, while some writers conceptualize women's equality in terms of educational and professional opportunity, sexual liberation, and individualism, others recognize the limitations of a paradigm of liberation that focuses only on individual freedom. Certain diasporic artists and writers assert that transformation of gender identity construction occurs, but only in transnational cultural spaces of the first world-spaces which have emerged in an era of rampant globalization and market liberalism. In particular, Singh advocates the inclusion of texts from women of different classes, religions, and castes, both in the Global North and in the South.
Author : Christina Bartolomeo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684856220
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cupid and Diana written by Christina Bartolomeo and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-06-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The owner of a vintage clothing store must decide whether a new man's warmth and sense of humor are better than the calm security her fiance has to offer.
Author : Jorge Almeida e Pinho
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527558088
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)
Download or read book Literature and the Arts since the 1960s written by Jorge Almeida e Pinho and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on addressing the imaginative wake of the rebellious late 1960s, with a particular, but not exclusive, focus on word-and-image relations. The volume showcases and discusses the impact of such processes on literature and the arts of that mythologized historical period. It explores the impact of its defining causes, hopes and regrets on the creative imagination. The awakening moment for that extraordinary momentous period in the global socio-political memory was May 1968, which came to be seen as the culmination and epitome of a series of processes involving protest, and the affirmation of previously silent or subaltern causes. Such processes and causes were predicated on challenges to established powers and mindsets, and hence on demands for change, which have had rich consequences in literature and the arts.
Author : Betsy Woodman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0805095314
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)
Download or read book Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes written by Betsy Woodman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Jana Bibi, a Scottish woman helping to save the small town in India she has grown to call home and the oddball characters she considers family Janet Laird's life changed the day she inherited her grandfather's house in a faraway Indian hill station. Ignoring her son's arguments to come grow old in their family castle in Scotland, she moves with her chatty parrot, Mr. Ganguly and her loyal housekeeper, Mary, to Hamara Nagar, where local merchants are philosophers, the chief of police is a tyrant, and a bagpipe-playing Gurkha keeps the wild monkeys at bay. Settling in, Jana Bibi (as she comes to be known) meets her colorful local neighbors—Feroze Ali Khan of Royal Tailors, who struggles with his business and family, V.K. Ramachandran, whose Treasure Emporium is bursting at the seams with objects of unknown provenance, and Rambir, editor of the local newspaper, who burns the midnight oil at his printing press. When word gets out that the town is in danger of being drowned by a government dam, Jana is enlisted to help put it on the map. Hoping to attract tourists with promises of good things to come, she stacks her deck of cards, readies her fine-feathered assistant—and Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes is born.
Author : Garth Stein
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061738093
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Art of Racing in the Rain written by Garth Stein and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM FOX 2000 STARRING MILO VENTIMIGLIA, AMANDA SEYFRIED, AND KEVIN COSTNER MEET THE DOG WHO WILL SHOW THE WORLD HOW TO BE HUMAN The New York Times bestselling novel from Garth Stein—a heart-wrenching but deeply funny and ultimately uplifting story of family, love, loyalty, and hope—a captivating look at the wonders and absurdities of human life . . . as only a dog could tell it. “Splendid.” —People “The perfect book for anyone who knows that compassion isn’t only for humans, and that the relationship between two souls who are meant for each other never really comes to an end. Every now and then I’m lucky enough to read a novel I can’t stop thinking about: this is one of them.” —Jodi Picoult “It’s impossible not to love Enzo.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune “This old soul of a dog has much to teach us about being human. I loved this book.” —Sara Gruen
Author : Patrick French
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141041579
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book India written by Patrick French and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick French brings one of the globe's most dynamic nations springing to life. He has an encyclopaedic knowledge of the country, sensitivity to its subtler nuances and a wealth of research.
Author : Mike Cidoni Lennox
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 164896091X
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)
Download or read book Carpenters written by Mike Cidoni Lennox and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction by Richard Carpenter The definitive biography of one of the most enduring and endeared recording artists in history—the Carpenters—is told for the first time from the perspective of Richard Carpenter, through more than 100 hours of exclusive interviews and some 200 photographs from Richard's personal archive, many never published. After becoming multimillion-selling, Grammy-winning superstars with their 1970 breakthrough hit "(They Long to Be) Close to You," Richard and Karen Carpenter would win over millions of fans worldwide with a record-breaking string of hits including "We've Only Just Begun," "Top of the World," and "Yesterday Once More." By 1975, success was taking its toll. Years of jam-packed work schedules, including hundreds of concert engagements, proved to be just too much for the Carpenters to keep the hits coming—and, ultimately, to keep the music playing at all. However, Richard and Karen never took their adoring public, or each other, for granted. In Carpenters: The Musical Legacy, Richard Carpenter tells his story for the first time. With candor, heart, and humor, he sheds new light on the Carpenters' trials and triumphs—work that remains the gold standard for melodic pop. This beautifully illustrated definitive biography, with exclusive interviews and never-before-seen photographs, is a must-have for any Carpenters fan.
Author : John Thomas Smith
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781017313291
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Book for a Rainy Day Or Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833 written by John Thomas Smith and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
