Tomb Of Sand

Author : Geetanjali Shree
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063299429
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tomb of Sand written by Geetanjali Shree and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE A playful, feminist, and utterly original epic set in contemporary northern India, about a family and the inimitable octogenarian matriarch at its heart. “A tale tells itself. It can be complete, but also incomplete, the way all tales are. This particular tale has a border and women who come and go as they please. Once you’ve got women and a border, a story can write itself . . .” Eighty-year-old Ma slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband. Despite her family’s cajoling, she refuses to leave her bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting daughter-in-law, Bahu, attend to Ma’s every need, while her favorite grandson, the cheerful and gregarious Sid, tries to lift her spirits with his guitar. But it is only after Sid’s younger brother—Serious Son, a young man pathologically incapable of laughing—brings his grandmother a sparkling golden cane covered with butterflies that things begin to change. With a new lease on life thanks to the cane’s seemingly magical powers, Ma gets out of bed and embarks on a series of adventures that baffle even her unconventional feminist daughter, Beti. She ditches her cumbersome saris, develops a close friendship with a hijra, and sets off on a fateful journey that will turn the family’s understanding of themselves upside down. Rich with fantastical elements, folklore, and exuberant wordplay, Geetanjali Shree’s magnificent novel explores timely and timeless topics, including Buddhism, global warming, feminism, Partition, gender binary, transcending borders, and the profound joys of life. Elegant, heartbreaking, and funny, it is a literary masterpiece that marks the American debut of an extraordinary writer. Translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell Author’s name pronounced: Ghee-TAHN-juh-lee Shree

Author : Jacob Hurst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999168325
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tomb of Black Sand written by Jacob Hurst and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tianxia Bachang
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0553524119
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City of Sand written by Tianxia Bachang and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multimillion-copy bestseller in China—now available in English! In this heart-pounding adventure, a group of individuals who have come together for an expedition, each with a specific interest, soon find themselves motivated by one common goal: the sheer will to survive. THE QUEST: To find the lost city of Jingjue, a once-glorious kingdom, along with the burial chamber of its mysterious queen. Both lie buried under the golden dunes of the desert, where fierce sandstorms and blazing heat show no mercy. THE TEAM: Teenagers Tianyi, who has the ability read the earth and sky through feng shui, and Kai, Tianyi’s best friend and confidant; Julie, a wealthy American whose father vanished on the same trek a year ago; Professor Chen, who wants to fulfill a lifelong dream; and Asat Amat, a local guide gifted in desert survival. THE OBSTACLES: Lethal creatures of the desert and an evil force that wants to entomb the explorers under the unforgiving sands of China’s Taklimakan Desert forever. Translated from the Chinese by Jeremy Tiang, whose recent work includes NEVER GROW UP, the translation from Chinese of the autobiography from action movie superstar Jackie Chan.

Author : Geetanjali Shree
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781911284703
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tomb of Sand written by Geetanjali Shree and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tianxia Bachang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0553524143
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dragon Ridge Tombs written by Tianxia Bachang and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in Chinese and in paperback by Anhui Arts Publishing House, Hefei City, Anhui Province, China, in 2006"--Copyright page.

Author : Simon Choa-Johnston
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143194119
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Wives written by Simon Choa-Johnston and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two women compete for the affections of their opium merchant husband in a tale of friendship, fortune and rivalry in colonial Hong Kong In 1862, a young Jew from Calcutta named Emanuel Belilios leaves his dutiful wife Semah and sets sail for Hong Kong to make his fortune in the opium trade. There, he grows into a prosperous and respectable merchant, eventually falling in love with his Chinese business partner's daughter Pearl, a delicate beauty twenty years his junior. As a wedding present, he builds for her the most magnificent mansion in Hong Kong. Then Semah arrives unannounced from Calcutta to take her place as mistress of the house...and life will change irrevocably for all of them. Inspired by the lives of Choa-Johnston's ancestors, The House of Wives is an unforgettable novel about the machinations of the early opium trade, and about two remarkable women determined to secure a dynasty for their children in the tumultuous British Crown colony.

Author : Marianne Hering
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 160482879X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret of the Prince's Tomb written by Marianne Hering and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 1 million sold in series! “The Egyptians believe that whoever opens a tomb will be cursed!” The hot sun and sand of ancient Egypt await Patrick and Beth in their next Imagination Station adventure. The cousins are caught between a terrible ruler and a nation bound for slavery. To help their new friend Tabitha, the cousins must seek out a great secret—one that will give hope to her family and future generations. Their search takes them to an ancient burial vault and . . . a mummy! But the vault is a confusing maze, filled with traps and mysterious symbols. Will the cousins ever get out again to share a life-changing hope?

Author : Alain-Pierre Zivie
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9782913805026
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Tombs of Saqqara written by Alain-Pierre Zivie and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Located south of Cairo, Saqqara, the principal necropolis of Memphis, is a privileged site in Egyptian history. There, Egyptian and foreign Egyptologists have made many discoveries, in particular French archaeologists: Auguste Mariette, Gaston Maspero, and Victor Loret in the past, Jean-Philippe Lauer, who passed away at the dawn of his one hundredth year (2001), and in these last decades, Jean Leclant, founder of the French Archaeological Mission of Saqqara." "In this distinguished line of egyptologists, Alain Zivie and his team of the French Archaeological Mission of the Bubasteion have spent the last twenty-five years examining, from the sands of Saqqara, a major New Kingdom cemetery that was later transformed into catacombs of cats. They have brought to light the tomb of the vizier 'Aper-El, with its burial treasure, and those of the painter Thothmes, of Maia, the foster mother of Tutankhamun, of an ambassador of Ramesses II, of the scribe of the Aten treasury in Memphis, and of others, as well." "Presenting the archaeological, historical, and artistic consequences of these investigations and these discoveries, the egyptologist here takes an approach that is sensitive to an authentic scientific adventure. To do this, he also uses and comments on a long series of beautiful photographs by Patrick Chapuis, in which we discover the works and the days, as well as the joys, of an entire team."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Dugald Steer
Publisher : Templar Books
ISBN 13 : 9781840116045
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wonders of Egypt written by Dugald Steer and published by Templar Books. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect follow-up to 'Egyptology' this is an entirely genuine course in the subject.

Author : Lei Xu
Publisher : ThingsAsian Press
ISBN 13 : 9781934159323
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angry Sea, Hidden Sands written by Lei Xu and published by ThingsAsian Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Uncle Three's boat disappears in the South China Sea, Fats, Poker-face, and Uncle Three's nephew set out to search for him and find themselves battling monsters in a labyrinth where the rooms keep shifting, as they each wonder who they can trust.