Fiction

     

     

  Details: W. E. B. Du Bois has described the African American at the end of the nineteenth century as “two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.” In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls—African and American, African-American—is...

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

    Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 146 Release Date: 20-07-2022 Part Number: RKC2010697209 Details: A twist on the classic tale of Alice in Wonderland told through Nicolas Mahler’s distinctive graphic novel style. Alice is back in Wonderland. Here she meets the White Rabbit, who leads her down into his...

   

  Brand: MACMILLAN Edition: Illustrated Binding: paperback Format: illustrated Number Of Pages: 144 Release Date: 15-04-2019 Part Number: 28700746 Details: From the 1920s through the 1950s, Bertolt Brecht wrote a number of short, fictionalized comments on contemporary life, politics and thought. Through the dramatic events of the first half of...

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  Details: In Easterine kire’s stories, the boundaries between magic and reality drift away, leaving us to Marvel at simple yet fantastical folktales about human connection. The title story in this collection is about feeling trapped by other people definitions of who we are. The bear-man finds love in the...

    Details: In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Mo Van, a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence, and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama-in which nearly everyone dies-unfurls. But in this tale of sharp hatchets, bad water,...

   

   

     

   

   

Muslims do not venerate the sun, they do not venerate the lotus, yet these motifs are omnipresent in Islamic' architecture. But nobody objected to them, because they were not perceived as Hindu symbols they were seen, understood and appreciated as Indian. or shall we say Sout Asian motifs.

  Details: ‘I had but that one arrow,’ says chotti Munda, the hero of this epic tale. A ‘magic’ arrow that stood for the pride, the wisdom, the culture, of their society, a society threatened with inevitable disintegration as its traditional structures crumbled under the assault of ‘National development’. The...

  Number Of Pages: 166 Release Date: 15-11-2014 Details: Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures. Mother of 1084 is one of her most widely read works, written during the height of the Naxalite agitation - a militant communist uprising that was brutally repressed by the Indian government...

  Details: These tales, brewed in the imagination of a master story-teller, make us look at the Mahabharata with new eyes, insisting as they do on the inclusion, within the master narrative, of the fates and view points of those previously unrepresented therein: women and the underclass. EAN: 9788170462903 Package...

  Details: ‘It is these hoodlums and desperadoes, the derelicts and drifters of the Bengali underworld as well as their political patrons and protectors in the police, whom Mahasweta brings to life with her caustic pen in the pages of these stories. As she pillories the respectable representatives of power...

No one was to stand at the door when Dinu-babu came or again, he could call someone else Ma again. in that case, he would have to let her go again, because once he' d called a woman Ma, it was a grave sin to make money from her body....

  if you go and sit among these people at twilight, you will hear them talking about the Queen of Jhansi. For you and me, the Queen of Jhansi is merely a page in history  

 

  Edition: Edition Binding: paperback Release Date: 01-12-2001 Details: Mother Of 1084 by Mahasweta Devi, 8170461391, 9788170461395, Seagull EAN: 9788170461395 Languages: Hindi