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Dancing In Cambodia Other Essays
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Author : Amitav Ghosh
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2010
Dancing In Cambodia Other Essays written by Amitav Ghosh 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 2010 with Burma categories.
Dancing In Cambodia And Other Essays
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Author : Amitav Ghosh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Dancing In Cambodia And Other Essays written by Amitav Ghosh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Burma categories.
Through Extraordinary First-Hand Accounts Including Two Pieces Never Published Before In India Amitav Ghosh Presents A Compelling Chronicle Of The Turmoil Of Our Times. The Town By The Sea Records His Experiences In The Andaman And Nicobar Islands Just Days After The Tsunami; And In September 11 He Takes Us Back To That Fateful Day When He Retrieved His Young Daughter From School In New York, Sick With The Knowledge That She Will Be Marked By The Same Kind Of Tumult That Has Defined His Own Life. `Dancing In Cambodia Recreates The First-Ever Visit To Europe By A Troupe Of Cambodian Dancers With King Sisowath, In 1906. Ghosh Links This Historic Visit, Celebrated By Rodin In A Series Of Sketches, To The More Recent History Of The Khmer Rouge Revolution. Stories In Stones Considers The Iconic Significance Of Angkor Wat, Reputedly The Largest Religious Edifice In The World, As A Symbol Of Cambodian Identity. An Omnipresent Image, It Pervades Virtually Every Area Of The Nation S Life Except Religion And Amitav Ghosh Sets Out To Uncover Stories, New And Old, Associated With The Historic Monument. `At Large In Burma , Written After The Author S Visits To The Country In 1995 96, Provides A Window To One Of The World S Most Closed Societies. Ghosh Interviewed Aung San Suu Kyi, The Personification Of Burma S Democratic Struggle, And Also Visited The Camps Of One Of Burma S Many Minorities Fighting For Independence, The Karenni. Click Here To Visit The Website
Dancing In Cambodia At Large In Burma
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Author : Amitav Ghosh
language : en
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
Release Date : 1998
Dancing In Cambodia At Large In Burma written by Amitav Ghosh and has been published by Orient Blackswan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Angkor (Extinct city) categories.
The Entire Book Is A Masterpiece Of Travel And Interpretative Writing.
The Imam And The Indian
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Author : Amitav Ghosh
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2010
The Imam And The Indian written by Amitav Ghosh 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 2010 with Egypt categories.
The Imam and the Indian is an extensive compilation of Amitav Ghosh s non-fiction writings. Sporadically published between his novels, in magazines, journals, academic books and periodicals, these essays and articles trace the evolution of the ideas that shape his fiction. He explores the connections between past and present, events and memories, people, cultures and countries that have a shared history. Ghosh combines his historical and anthropological bent of mind with his skills of a novelist, to present a collection like no other.
Incendiary Circumstances
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Author : Amitav Ghosh
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2007-04-23
Incendiary Circumstances written by Amitav Ghosh and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-23 with Literary Collections categories.
A journalist who “illuminates the human drama behind the headlines” writes about today’s dramatic events, from terrorist attacks to tsunamis (Publishers Weekly). “An uncannily honest writer,” Amitav Ghosh has published firsthand accounts of pivotal world events in publications including the New York Times, Granta, and the New Yorker (The New York Times Book Review). This volume brings together the finest of these pieces, chronicling the turmoil of our times. Incendiary Circumstances begins with Ghosh’s arrival in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands just days after the devastation of the 2005 tsunami. We then travel back to September 11, 2001, as Ghosh retrieves his young daughter from school, sick with the knowledge that she must witness the kind of firestorm that has been in the background of his life since childhood. In his travels, Ghosh has stood on an icy mountaintop on the contested border between India and Pakistan; interviewed Pol Pot’s sister-in-law in Cambodia; shared the elation of Egyptians when Naguib Mahfouz won the Nobel Prize; and stood with his threatened Sikh neighbors through the riots following Indira Gandhi’s assassination. In these pieces, he offers an up-close look at an era defined by the ravages of politics and nature. “Ghosh is the perfect chronicler of an increasingly globalized world . . . Reading [him] is a mind-expanding experience. Once you’ve finished this book, you’re very likely to press it into your friends’ hands and beg them to read it as well.” —Sunday Oregonian
The Glass Palace
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Author : Ghosh
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2008
The Glass Palace written by Ghosh 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 2008 with categories.
The Glass Palace Begins With The Shattering Of The Kingdom Of Burma, And Tells The Story Of A People, A Fortune, And A Family And Its Fate. It Traces The Life Of Rajkumar, A Poor Indian Boy, Who Is Lifted On The Tides Of Political And Social Turmoil To Build An Empire In The Burmese Teak Forest. When British Soldiers Force The Royal Family Out Of The Glass Palace, During The Invasion Of 1885, He Falls In Love With Dolly, An Attendant At The Palace. Years Later, Unable To Forget Her, Rajkumar Goes In Search Of His Love. Through This Brilliant And Impassioned Story Of Love And War, Amitav Ghosh Presents A Ruthless Appraisal Of The Horrors Of Colonialism And Capitalist Exploitation. Click Here To Visit The Amitav Ghosh Website
The Embassy Of Cambodia
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Author : Zadie Smith
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2013-11-07
The Embassy Of Cambodia written by Zadie Smith and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-07 with Fiction categories.
Revisiting the terrain of her acclaimed novel NW, The Embassy of Cambodia is another remarkable work of fiction from Zadie Smith. 'The fact is, if we followed the history of every little country in the world -- in its dramatic as well as its quiet times -- we would have no space left in which to live our own lives or apply ourselves to our necessary tasks, never mind indulge in occasional pleasures, like swimming . . . ' First published in the New Yorker, The Embassy of Cambodia is a rare and brilliant story that takes us deep into the life of a young woman, Fatou, domestic servant to the Derawals and escapee from one set of hardships to another. Beginning and ending outside the Embassy of Cambodia, which happens to be located in Willesden, north-west London, Zadie Smith's absorbing, moving and wryly observed story suggests how the apparently small things in an ordinary life always raise larger, more extraordinary questions. 'Its range is lightly immense... a fiction of consequences both global and heart-rendingly intimate' Guardian 'Smith serves up a smasher' Independent Playful... unexpected and absolutely right... Skips to a beat all of its own' Times Praise for NW: 'A triumph . . .modern London is explored in a dazzling portrait . . . every sentence sings' Guardian 'Intensely funny, richly varied, always unexpected. A joyous, optimistic, angry masterpiece. No better English novel will be published this year' Philip Hensher, Daily Telegraph 'Absolutely brilliant . . . So electrically authentic, it reads like surveillance transcripts' Lev Grossman, TIME
Written For Ever
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Author : Rukun Advani
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-11-03
Written For Ever written by Rukun Advani and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-03 with Fiction categories.
A new kind of Indian writing in English was in the air in the early 1990s. Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, I. Allan Sealy and Upamanyu Chatterjee had written their early books. The new current was promising, and Dharma Kumar, historian and editor of the famous Indian Economic and Social History Review, decided to publish a journal, along the lines of Granta and The New Yorker, dedicated to ferreting out the best literary talent. The journal, Civil Lines: New Writing from India, first appeared in 1994 and quickly attracted attention by publishing literary pieces that were a cut above, developing a cult following among readers of Indian writing in English. Till 2001, five issues had been published—totaling sixty-one individual contributions by thirty-eight contributors. Some of the contributors were then far from well known, and Civil Lines could be said to have given them a leg-up towards subsequent fame. Sheila Dhar, Susan Visvanathan, Raj Kamal Jha, Ruchir Joshi, Siddhartha Deb, Suketu Mehta, Amitava Kumar and Manjula Padmanabhan went on to become established writers after Civil Lines had published their smaller pieces. Ramachandra Guha’s first brilliant essay—a five-finger exercise in literary anthropology which seems with hindsight to presage his later work on Verrier Elwin—appeared in the inaugural issue. A little-known aspect of Amitav Ghosh is his interest in the short story. Ghosh contributed two pieces to the journal—a reflective essay on the Indian practice of the short story and a wonderfully fluent translation of one of Tagore’s most famous tales, ‘Kshudhita Pâshân’ (The Hunger of Stones). The present anthology comprises a selection of the finest essays, stories and poems that were published in the first five issues of Civil Lines. The original issues of the journal are difficult to come by. This anthology is a must for all those interested in the best practitioners of desi English.
Modern Literature Of Cambodia
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Author : Teri Shaffer Yamada
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-03-31
Modern Literature Of Cambodia written by Teri Shaffer Yamada and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-31 with categories.
Modern Literature of Cambodia captures the poignant experience of Cambodians in the homeland and diaspora through fiction, poetry, essay and drama. Current themes of modern Cambodian literature include the quest for national and community 'development, ' social injustice, and feminist writing that critiques the diminished role of women and the ongoing critique of arranged marriage in Cambodia. It is the first collection of modern Cambodian literature in English
Written Forever
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Author : Rukun Advani
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-05-22
Written Forever written by Rukun Advani and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-22 with Literary Collections categories.
The journal Civil Lines was conceived in the 1990s to publish the best new Indian writing in English. The first issue (1994) soon garnered a cult readership with works by writers like Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Ramachandra Guha and I. Allan Sealy. Claiming the magazine’s irregularity itself as a guarantee of quality, Civil Lines continued issues erratically. It encouraged a new wave of Indian English writers and laid the ground for, among others, Ruchir Joshi, Siddhartha Deb, Suketu Mehta, Amitava Kumar, and Manjula Padmanabhan, who went on to become established writers Ramachandra Guha’s first brilliant essay, a five-finger exercise in literary anthropology which appeared in the inaugural issue, and Amitav Ghosh’s reflective essay on the Indian practice of the short story as well as a wonderfully fluent translation of one of Tagore’s most famous tales, Kshudhita Pashan (The Hunger of Stones). This volume, edited by Rukun Advani (one of the four original editors), brings together the finest essays, stories, and poems in the first five issues of Civil Lines, all of which are now out of print and hard to come by. For anyone interested in the finest recent Indian writing in English, this is the book to possess.