Can You Hear The Nightbird Call
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Can You Hear The Nightbird Call
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Author : Anita Rau Badami
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2010-03-05
Can You Hear The Nightbird Call written by Anita Rau Badami and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-05 with Fiction categories.
Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Anita Rau Badami's acclaimed novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? chronicles the stories of three women, linked in love and tragedy, over a span of fifty years, sweeping from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air India flight 182 off the coast of Ireland in 1985. Alive with Badami's warmth and humanity, and brimming with the daily sights and sounds of both Canada and India, this novel brilliantly conveys the tumultuous effects of the past on new immigrants, and the ways in which memory and myth, the personal and the political, become heartrendingly connected.
Can You Hear The Nightbird Call
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Author : Anita Rau Badami
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2006
Can You Hear The Nightbird Call written by Anita Rau Badami and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Indic fiction (English) categories.
Can You Hear The Nightbird Call? Tells The Stories Of Three Women, Linked In Love And Tragedy Over A Span Of Fifty Years, Sweeping From The Partition Of India And Pakistan To The Explosion Of Air India Flight 182 Off The Coast Of Ireland In 1985. There Is Bibi-Ji&Mdash;Who Steals The Heart Of Her Sister&Rsquo;S FiancÉ And Goes With Him To Vancouver, Where They Become Pillars Of The Sikh Community&Mdash;Who Is Haunted By The Subsequent Disappearance Of Her Sister During The Violence Of Partition; Her Neighbour Leela&Mdash;Trying To Get On With The Business Of Living In This New World Of Opportunity&Mdash;Who Feels Herself Always A &Lsquo;Half And Half,&Rsquo; A Newcomer Struggling To Find Her Way In The Colourful &Lsquo;Desi&Rsquo; Community Of Vancouver; And Nimmo, Orphaned By The Devastation That Engulfed India After Partition, Who Tries To Rebuild Her Life In Delhi. But For All Three, The Conflicts Of The Past Re-Emerge With Shattering Results. Rich With Anita Rau Badami&Rsquo;S Warmth And Humanity, And The Daily Sights, Scents And Sounds Of Both India And Canada, Can You Hear The Nightbird Call? Also Shows The Tumultuous Effect Of The Past On New Immigrants, And The Ways In Which Memory And Myth, The Personal And The Political, Become Heartrendingly Connected.
Tamarind Mem
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Author : Anita Rau Badami
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2010-01-29
Tamarind Mem written by Anita Rau Badami and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-29 with Fiction categories.
A beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women. Set in India’s railway colonies, this is the story of Kamini and her mother Saroja, nicknamed Tamarind Mem due to her sour tongue. While in Canada beginning her graduate studies, Kamini receives a postcard from her mother saying she has sold their home and is travelling through India. Both are forced into the past to confront their dreams and losses and to explore the love that binds mothers and daughters everywhere.
The Hero S Walk
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Author : Anita Rau Badami
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2011-09-28
The Hero S Walk written by Anita Rau Badami and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-28 with Fiction categories.
After the release of Anita Rau Badami's critically acclaimed first novel, Tamarind Mem, it was evident a promising new talent had joined the Canadian literary community. Her dazzling literary follow-up is The Hero's Walk, a novel teeming with the author's trademark tumble of the haphazard beauty, wreckage and folly of ordinary lives. Set in the dusty seaside town of Toturpuram on the Bay of Bengal, The Hero's Walk traces the terrain of family and forgiveness through the lives of an exuberant cast of characters bewildered by the rapid pace of change in today's India. Each member of the Rao family pits his or her chance at personal fulfillment against the conventions of a crumbling caste and class system. Anita Rau Badami explains that "The Hero's Walk is a novel about so many things: loss, disappointment, choices and the importance of coming to terms with yourself and the circumstances of your life without losing the dignity embedded in all of us. At one level it is about heroism - not the hero of the classic epic, those enormous god-sized heroes - but my fascination with the day-to-day heroes and the heroism that's needed to survive all the unexpected disasters and pitfalls of life."
Tell It To The Trees
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Author : Anita Rau Badami
language : en
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Release Date : 2011-09-20
Tell It To The Trees written by Anita Rau Badami and has been published by Knopf Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-20 with Fiction categories.
One freezing winter morning a dead body is found in the backyard of the Dharma family’s house. It’s the body of Anu Krishnan. For Anu, a writer seeking a secluded retreat from the city, the Dharmas’ “back-house” in the sleepy mountain town of Merrit’s Point was the ideal spot to take a year off and begin writing. She had found the Dharmas’ rental through a happy coincidence. A friend from university who had kept tabs on everyone in their graduating year – including the quiet and reserved Vikram Dharma and his first wife, Helen – sent her the listing. Anu vaguely remembered Vikram but had a strong recollection of Helen, a beautiful, vivacious, social and charming woman. But now Vikram had a new wife, a marriage hastily arranged in India after Helen was killed in a car accident. Suman Dharma, a stark contrast to Helen, is quiet and timid. She arrived from the bustling warmth of India full of the promise of her new life – a new home, a new country and a daughter from Vikram’s first marriage. But her husband’s suspicious, controlling and angry tirades become almost a daily ritual, resigning Suman to a desolate future entangled in a marriage of fear and despair. Suman is isolated both by the landscape and the culture, and her fortunes begin to change only when Anu arrives. A friendship begins to form between the two women as Anu becomes a frequent visitor to the house. While the children, Varsha and Hemant, are at school, Anu, Vikram’s mother, Akka, and Suman spend time sharing tea and stories. But Anu’s arrival will change the balance of the Dharma household. Young Varsha, deeply affected by her mother’s death and desperate to keep her new family together, becomes increasingly suspicious of Anu’s relationship with her stepmother. Varsha’s singular attention to keeping her family together, and the secrets that emerge as Anu and Suman become friends, create cracks in the Dharma family that can only spell certain disaster.
Ravensong A Novel
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Author : Lee Maracle
language : en
Publisher: Canadian Scholars’ Press
Release Date : 2017-05-15
Ravensong A Novel written by Lee Maracle and has been published by Canadian Scholars’ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Social Science categories.
WHERE DO YOU BEGIN TELLING SOMEONE THEIR WORLD IS NOT THE ONLY ONE? While Stacey, a 17-year-old Native girl, struggles to save her family and community from a devastating influenza epidemic, a white classmate’s suicide hints that the village is threatened by forces more sinister and powerful than the epidemic itself. Ravensong, the first novel of celebrated author Lee Maracle, tells an extraordinary story about a young woman’s quest for answers, combining both tragedy and joy in its unforgettable depiction of an urban Native community in the 1950s. Maracle speaks unflinchingly of the gulf between two cultures: a gulf that Raven says must be bridged. Evocative and prescient, filled with oral traditions, humour, and deep insight, Ravensong is more than just a novel—it is a necessary story for our time.
Iqbal
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Author : Francesco D'Adamo
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-05-08
Iqbal written by Francesco D'Adamo and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-08 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
When young Iqbal is sold into slavery at a carpet factory, his arrival changes everything for the other overworked and abused chidren there. It is Iqbal who explains to them that despite their master's promises, he plans on keeping them as his slaves indefinetely. But it is also Iqbal who inspires the other children to look to a future free from toil...and is brave enough to show them how to get there. This moving fictionalized account of the real Iqbal Masih is told through the voice of Fatima, a young Pakistani girl whose life is changed by Iqbal's courage.
I Heard The Owl Call My Name
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Author : Margaret Craven
language : en
Publisher: Dell
Release Date : 2017-11-14
I Heard The Owl Call My Name written by Margaret Craven and has been published by Dell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-14 with Young Adult Fiction categories.
Amid the grandeur of the remote Pacific Northwest stands Kingcome, a village so ancient that, according to Kwakiutl myth, it was founded by the two brothers left on earth after the great flood. The Native Americans who still live there call it Quee, a place of such incredible natural richness that hunting and fishing remain primary food sources. But the old culture of totems and potlatch is being replaces by a new culture of prefab housing and alcoholism. Kingcome's younger generation is disenchanted and alienated from its heritage. And now, coming upriver is a young vicar, Mark Brian, on a journey of discovery that can teach him—and us—about life, death, and the transforming power of love.
Unmooring The Komagata Maru
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Author : Rita Dhamoon
language : en
Publisher: UBC Press
Release Date : 2019-08-15
Unmooring The Komagata Maru written by Rita Dhamoon and has been published by UBC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-15 with Social Science categories.
In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru challenges conventional Canadian historical accounts by drawing from multiple disciplines and fields to consider the international and colonial dimensions of the voyage. By situating South Asian Canadian history within a global-imperial context, the contributors offer a critical reading of Canadian multiculturalism through past events and their commemoration. A hundred years later, the voyage of the Komagata Maru has yet to reach its conclusion.
What The Body Remembers
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Author : Shauna Singh Baldwin
language : en
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Release Date : 2015-06-30
What The Body Remembers written by Shauna Singh Baldwin and has been published by Vintage Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-30 with Fiction categories.
Introducing an eloquent, sensual new Canadian voice that rings out in a first novel that is exquisitely rich and stunningly original. Roop is a sixteen-year-old village girl in the Punjab region of undivided India in 1937 whose family is respectable but poor -- her father is deep in debt and her mother is dead. Innocent and lovely, yet afraid she may not marry well, she is elated when she learns she is to become the second wife of a wealthy Sikh landowner, Sardarji, whose first wife, Satya, has failed to bear him any children. Roop trusts that the strong-willed Satya will treat her as a sister, but their relationship becomes far more ominous and complicated than expected. Roop's tale draws the reader immediately into her world, making the exotic familiar and the family's story startlingly universal, but What the Body Remembers is also very much Satya's story. She is mortified and angry when Sardarji takes Roop for a wife, a woman whose low status Satya takes as an affront to her position, and she adopts desperate measures to maintain her place in society and in her husband's heart. Yet it is also Sardarji's story, as the India he knows and understands -- the temples, cities, villages and countryside, all so vividly evoked -- begins to change. The escalating tensions in his personal life reflect those between Hindu and Muslim that lead to the cleaving of India and trap the Sikhs in a horrifying middle ground. Deeply imbued with the languages, customs and layered history of colonial India, What the Body Remembers is an absolute triumph of storytelling. Never before has a novel of love and partition been told from the point of view of the Sikh minority, never before through Sikh women's eyes. This is a novel to read, treasure and admire that, like its two compelling heroines, resists all efforts to be put aside.