Another Gulmohar Tree
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Another Gulmohar Tree
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Author : Aamer Hussein
language : en
Publisher: Saqi
Release Date : 2012-07-15
Another Gulmohar Tree written by Aamer Hussein and has been published by Saqi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-15 with Fiction categories.
Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like him, come out of an unhappy marriage. Just as the lonely strangers' friendship begins to blossom into something deeper Usman has to return to Karachi, leaving Lydia behind. Two years later, Lydia impulsively abandons her life in London and boards a ship to Karachi, where the two are married. But as the years flit by Usman feels distanced from his life and realises that he hasn't noticed the buds of the gulmohar tree unfurl. A beautiful account of a marriage that is in turns wry and unashamedly romantic. 'We are lucky to have Hussein among us, telling us stories as few can.' Amit Chaudhuri 'A lovely, strange, and very moving novel.' Ruth Padel 'At its heart it is a story of love, into which Hussein weaves all his remarkable skills of storytelling.' Kamila Shamsie 'In his splendid, dreamy Another Gulmohar Tree, Hussein gives us an indelible sense of two worlds - Karachi and London - in miniature and the strong parable of a love story that endures over a lifetime.' Joseph Olshan
The Gulmohar Tree And Other Stories
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Author : Abhisek Mitra
language : en
Publisher: Educreation Publishing
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The Gulmohar Tree And Other Stories written by Abhisek Mitra and has been published by Educreation Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Fiction categories.
The Gulmohar Tree & Other Stories is a collection of the day to day happenings around us. This book is a bunch of emotions that one can relate to his/her own experiences.
The Cloud Messenger
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Author : Aamer Hussein
language : en
Publisher: Saqi
Release Date : 2011-10-10
The Cloud Messenger written by Aamer Hussein and has been published by Saqi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-10 with Fiction categories.
"A thing of beauty. . . . You must read it."—Nadeem Aslam "A shower of pleasures."—Julia O'Faolain "Sophisticated, cosmopolitan and seductive, the novel engages mind and senses alike."—André Naffis-Sahely, The Times Literary Supplement Like his parents, he too spent many hours sending cloud messages to other places, messages of longing for something that he knew existed otherwhere. London, that distant rainy place his father lived in once, is where Mehran finds himself after leaving Karachi in his teens. And it is there that his adult life unfolds: he discovers the joys of poetry, faces the trials of love and work, and spends his dreaming hours "sending cloud messages to other places," hoping, one day, to tell his own story. A feeling of not quite belonging anywhere pursues Mehran as he travels to Italy, India, and Pakistan. But the relationships he forms—with wounded, passionate Marvi, volatile Marco, and the enigmatic Riccarda—and his power of recollection finally bring him some sense, however fleeting, of home. Aamer Hussein was born in Karachi in 1955 and moved to London in his teens. He lectures at the University of Southampton and the Institute of English Studies and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. His novella Another Gulmohar Tree was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Europe and South Asia 2010.
This Other Salt
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Author : Hussein Aamer
language : en
Publisher: Saqi
Release Date : 2014-05-22
This Other Salt written by Hussein Aamer and has been published by Saqi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-22 with Fiction categories.
Betrayal, bereavement, exile, belonging - these are the themes that resonate throughout This Other Salt. A writer torn between two loves looks for his lost words in the gap between memory, mourning and desire; a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by turning their romance into a legend of biblical proportions; and a teenage boy's life uncannily begins to resemble the role he plays in a school operetta ...Combining satire, legend, poetry, history and memoir, the linked stories of This Other Salt reveal an author of uncommon talent at the height of his craft.
How I Became A Tree
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Author : Sumana Roy
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2021-08-31
How I Became A Tree written by Sumana Roy and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-31 with Nature categories.
An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek “I was tired of speed. I wanted to live tree time.” So writes Sumana Roy at the start of How I Became a Tree, her captivating, adventurous, and self-reflective vision of what it means to be human in the natural world. Drawn to trees’ wisdom, their nonviolent way of being, their ability to cope with loneliness and pain, Roy movingly explores the lessons that writers, painters, photographers, scientists, and spiritual figures have gleaned through their engagement with trees—from Rabindranath Tagore to Tomas Tranströmer, Ovid to Octavio Paz, William Shakespeare to Margaret Atwood. Her stunning meditations on forests, plant life, time, self, and the exhaustion of being human evoke the spacious, relaxed rhythms of the trees themselves. Hailed upon its original publication in India as “a love song to plants and trees” and “an ode toall that is unnoticed, ill, neglected, and yet resilient,” How I Became a Tree blends literary history, theology, philosophy, botany, and more, and ultimately prompts readers to slow down and to imagine a reenchanted world in which humans live more like trees.
Land Of Smoke Pushkin Classics
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Author : Sara Gallardo
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2023-09-06
Land Of Smoke Pushkin Classics written by Sara Gallardo and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-06 with Fiction categories.
Dazzling, hallucinatory stories by Sara Gallardo, a rediscovered Argentinian contemporary of García Márquez An old man wakes up one morning to find that his beloved garden, the envy of all his neighbours, is floating away – with him on board; a bored young woman decides to start a new, double life in Buenos Aires – with the useful prop of a spare head she keeps in her closet; a meek German missionary leaves Paraguay for the Pampas, completely unprepared for what he will encounter there at night. Land of Smoke is the first English translation of this recently rediscovered major Argentinian writer. Dazzling and hallucinatory, the stories collected here recall the masters of magical realism – but with Gallardo's distinctive, idiosyncratic slant. Sara Gallardo was a celebrated and prize-winning Argentinian writer, born in Buenos Aires in 1931. Her first book was published in 1958, and by the time she died in 1988, she had published novels, short stories, children's books, and essays. Written after the death of her second husband, Land of Smoke is the first of her books to be translated into English.
British Muslim Fictions
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Author : C. Chambers
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-03-09
British Muslim Fictions written by C. Chambers and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-09 with Literary Criticism categories.
Through interviews with leading writers (including Ahdaf Soueif and Hanif Kureishi), this book analyzes the writing and opinions of novelists of Muslim heritage based in the UK. Discussion centres on writers' work, literary techniques, and influences, and on their views of such issues as the hijab, the war on terror and the Rushdie Affair.
37 Bridges And Other Stories
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Author : Aamer Hussein
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2015-04-01
37 Bridges And Other Stories written by Aamer Hussein and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-01 with Fiction categories.
A masterful new collection from a leading exponent of the short story. A poem sparks off an epistolary exploration of romance, a television series consumes a writer's curiosity, a princess sets out in search of her husband, a young boy learns of love and loss at boarding school - Aamer Hussein infuses these stories with his musical, poetic sensibility. From the experimental 'The Tree at the Limit' to the mellow, almost mythical 'The Swan's Wife', and to the rambling conversations of two Karachi veterans lunching by the sea while their city rains down on them in 'Two Old Friends', these tales examine belonging and displacement, homes and would-be homes. Five stories, including the diptych 'Knotted Tongue', originally written in Urdu by the author, were translated into English to explore new voices and visions.Blending modern art with soap opera, traditional tales with contemporary realities, humour with wisdom, this is a masterful new collection from a leading exponent of the short story.
Cities And Canopies
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Author : Harini Nagendra
language : en
Publisher: Viking
Release Date : 2019-05
Cities And Canopies written by Harini Nagendra and has been published by Viking this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05 with Nature categories.
Native and imported, sacred and ordinary, culinary and floral, favourites of various kings and commoners over the centuries, trees are the most visible signs of nature in cities, fundamentally shaping their identities. Trees are storehouses of the complex origins and histories of city growth, coming as they do from different parts of the world, brought in by various local and colonial rulers. From the tree planted by Sarojini Naidu at Dehradun's clock tower to those planted by Sher Shah Suri and Jahangir on Grand Trunk Road, trees in India have served, above all, as memory keepers. They are our roots: their trunks our pillars, their bark our texture, and their branches our shade. Trees are nature's own museums. Drawing on extensive research, Cities and Canopies is a book about both the specific and the general aspects of these gentle life-giving creatures.
Human Matter
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Author : Rodrigo Rey Rosa
language : en
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
Release Date : 2019-06-07
Human Matter written by Rodrigo Rey Rosa and has been published by Univ of TX + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-07 with Fiction categories.
This prizewinning Guatemalan author’s meta-novel delves into the secret police records and history of political violence in his homeland. In 2005, novelist Rodrigo Rey Rosa started visiting the Historical Archive of the Guatemala National Police, where millions of previously hidden records were being cataloged, bringing to light detailed evidence of crimes against humanity. In response, Rey Rosa crafted a meta-novel that weaves the language of arrest records and surveillance reports with the contemporary journal entries of a novelist (named Rodrigo) who is attempting to synthesize the stories of political activists, indigenous people, and others ensnared in a deadly web of state-sponsored terrorism. When Rodrigo’s access to the archive is suspended, he proceeds to the General Archives of Central America and the Library of Congress, also collaborating with the son of the Identification Bureau's former head in a relentless pursuit of understanding. Human Matter is both a tour de force of fiction and a sobering meditation on the realities of collective memory, raising timely questions about how our history is recorded and retold.