Twilight In Delhi

Author : Ahmed Ali
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811212670
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twilight in Delhi written by Ahmed Ali and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during the early years of this century this book recaptues the texture of family life in Delhi.

Author : Joanne Dryansky
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631954539
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Season in Queens written by Joanne Dryansky and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldiers wounded in World War II return home in this “moving read full of compassion and resilience” (Tatiana de Rosnay, New York Times–bestselling author). 1946. In Cambria Heights—an outlying working-class enclave of New York City—the people, having lived through years of calamitous losses and fears, are ready to revive the modestly idyllic life of their cherished little neighborhood. But their peace is imperiled . . . GIs are returning, and though their physical wounds may be healed, their emotional wounds fester. As the community grapples with a “communist threat” that forebodes another war, the worst polio epidemic in American history threatens to spread. And when an African American air ace and war hero looks for a place to call home, his very presence unearths the latent racism of his newfound neighbors. During this turbulent time, sixteen-year-old Erin Burke enters into a relationship with a disturbed veteran suffering from shellshock. When his sexual abuse leads to a botched, illegal abortion, Erin marries her memory to her imagination to portray A Season in Queens that will change her life forever.

Author : Snehal Shingavi
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351186954
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Angaaray written by Snehal Shingavi and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1932, this slim volume of short stories created a firestorm of public outrage for its bold attack on the hypocrisy of conservative Islam and British colonialism. Inspired by British modernists like Woolf and Joyce as well as the Indian independence movement, the four young trailblazers who penned this collection were eager to revolutionize Urdu literature. Instead, they invited the wrath of the establishment: the book was burned in protest and then banned by the British authorities. Nevertheless, Angaaray spawned a new generation of Urdu writers and gave birth to the Progressive Writers' Association, whose members included, among others, stalwarts like Chughtai, Manto, Premchand and Faiz. This edition also provides a compelling account of the furore surrounding this explosive collection.

Author : Ahmed Ali
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ocean of Night written by Ahmed Ali and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deepti Kapoor
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385352751
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bad Character written by Deepti Kapoor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-01-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly acclaimed story of a young woman in New Dehli, and the love that both shatters and forever changes her—offering an intimate and raw exploration of female transformation in contemporary India, and an unforgettable hymn to a dangerous, exhilarating city. “Searing.... Intoxicating.” —The New York Times Book Review Our narrator is “twenty and untouched” when her mother dies. Sent by her absentee father to live with a relative in a modest New Delhi apartment, she is ill-equipped to resist the allure of the rich and rebellious young man who approaches her one day at a cafe. He is a few years older, and from a different social class, but they both yearn to break free of tradition. As they drive around Delhi—eating, making love, falling apart—he introduces her to an India that she never knew existed, and will never be able to forget. Told in a voice at once gritty and lyrical, A Bad Character is an astounding book.

Author : Huma R. Kidwai
Publisher : Zubaan
ISBN 13 : 9383074183
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hussaini Alam House written by Huma R. Kidwai and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When nine-year-old Ayman arrives in Hyderabad in the early 1950s to come and live at the Hussaini Alam House, she little realizes that the house, and its many inmates, will come to haunt her life and shape her destiny as she grows to become a woman. The house is ruled over by her grandfather, a dignified despot, whom everyone but Ayman, her mother and sister, call ‘Sarkar’ (master). Her mother, ‘the eternal rebel,’ is irreverent, progressive and a communist: a bomb waiting to explode. Ayman herself alternates between being the ‘ugly duckling’ of the house and its little princess. Huma Kidwai’s sensitive and vivid portraits of the characters who teem around the House, offer a window onto the customs and mores of a traditional Hyderabadi Muslim family. Narrated by the forty-year-old Ayman as she recalls the events of her past, The Hussaini Alam House is an elegy to a vanished way of life, a lovesong to the people she has loved and lost, and a psychologically nuanced portrait of the women of the household as they tread a fine line between society’s expectations and their own yearning for freedom. Published by Zubaan.

Author : Kishori Saran LAL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twilight of the Sultanate. A Political, Social and Cultural History of the Sultanate of Delhi from the Invasion of Timur to the Conquest of Babur, 1398-1526 written by Kishori Saran LAL and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ahmed Ali
Publisher : Sangam Books Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Rats and Diplomats written by Ahmed Ali and published by Sangam Books Limited. This book was released on 1985 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ralph Freeman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400875404
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lyrical Novel written by Ralph Freeman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, in defining the genre of "lyrical fiction," separates a type of .fiction that can be legitimately viewed as “poetry” from other narrative types. The lyrical novelist uses fictional devices to find an aesthetic expression for experience, achieving an effect most frequently seen in dreams, picaresques, and allegories. Analyzing representative novels by Hermann Hesse, Andre Gide, and Virginia Woolf, Ralph Freedman focuses on the problem of self-consciousness. His findings are directly applicable to much twentieth-century fiction. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184004842
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unaccustomed Earth written by Jhumpa Lahiri and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of Unaccustomed Earth focus on second-generation immigrants making and remaking lives, loves and identities in England and America. We follow brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, friends and lovers, in stories that take us from Boston and London to Bombay and Calcutta. Blending the individual and the generational, the exotic and the strikingly mundane, these haunting, exquisitely detailed and emotionally complex stories are intensely compelling elegies of life, death, love and fate. This is a dazzling work from a masterful writer.