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The Ark Sakura
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38963-3 (0-307-38963-4)
A classic from the renowned Japanese novelist about isolation and the threat of a nuclear holocaust, The Ark Sakura is as timely today as it was at its original publication.
In this Kafkaesque allegorical fantasy, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an “ark” capable of surviving the coming nuclear holocaust... Read more >
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 10, 2009
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-38963-3 (0-307-38963-4)
A classic from the renowned Japanese novelist about isolation and the threat of a nuclear holocaust, The Ark Sakura is as timely today as it was at its original publication.
In this Kafkaesque allegorical fantasy, Mole has converted a huge underground quarry into an “ark” capable of surviving the coming nuclear holocaust... Read more >
The Box Man
A Novel
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 10, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72651-4 (0-375-72651-9)
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.
In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 10, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72651-4 (0-375-72651-9)
Kobo Abe, the internationally acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes, combines wildly imaginative fantasies and naturalistic prose to create narratives reminiscent of the work of Kafka and Beckett.
In this eerie and evocative masterpiece, the nameless protagonist gives up his identity and the trappings of a normal life to live in... Read more >
The Face of Another
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72653-8 (0-375-72653-5)
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident—a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other... Read more >
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 4, 2003
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72653-8 (0-375-72653-5)
Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident—a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other... Read more >
Kangaroo Notebook
A Novel
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 29, 1997
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74663-8 (0-679-74663-3)
In the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes on morning to discover that his legs are growing radish sprouts, an ailment... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 29, 1997
Price: $12.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-74663-8 (0-679-74663-3)
In the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes on morning to discover that his legs are growing radish sprouts, an ailment... Read more >
The Ruined Map
A Novel
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72652-1 (0-375-72652-7)
Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dostoevsky.
Mr. Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72652-1 (0-375-72652-7)
Of all the great Japanese novelists, Kobe Abe was indubitably the most versatile. With The Ruined Map, he crafted a mesmerizing literary crime novel that combines the narrative suspense of Chandler with the psychological depth of Dostoevsky.
Mr. Nemuro, a respected salesman, disappeared over half a year ago, but only now does... Read more >
Secret Rendezvous
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72654-5 (0-375-72654-3)
From the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.
From the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to take his wife, who protests that... Read more >
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 9, 2002
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-375-72654-5 (0-375-72654-3)
From the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.
From the moment that an ambulance appears in the middle of the night to take his wife, who protests that... Read more >
The Woman in the Dunes
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 16, 1991
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73378-2 (0-679-73378-7)
One of the premier Japanese novels of the 20th century, The Woman in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand... Read more >
Written by Kobo Abe
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: April 16, 1991
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73378-2 (0-679-73378-7)
One of the premier Japanese novels of the 20th century, The Woman in the Dunes combines the essence of myth, suspense, and the existential novel. In a remote seaside village, Niki Jumpei, a teacher and amateur entomologist, is held captive with a young woman at the bottom of a vast sand... Read more >
Indian Love Poems
Edited by Meena Alexander
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $12.50
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4225-8 (1-4000-4225-9)
Beginning with the Kama Sutra, the erotic handbook written more than two thousand years ago, this gathering of poems ranges up to present-day India and the poets of the Indian diaspora: from the 12th-century female poet Mahadeviyakka to the early-20th-century Nobel Prize-winning Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore to such contemporary poets as... Read more >
Edited by Meena Alexander
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: January 25, 2005
Price: $12.50
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4225-8 (1-4000-4225-9)
Beginning with the Kama Sutra, the erotic handbook written more than two thousand years ago, this gathering of poems ranges up to present-day India and the poets of the Indian diaspora: from the 12th-century female poet Mahadeviyakka to the early-20th-century Nobel Prize-winning Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore to such contemporary poets as... Read more >
Maps for Lost Lovers
Written by Nadeem Aslam
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7697-0 (1-4000-7697-8)
Jugnu and his lover, Chanda, have disappeared. Though unmarried, they had been living together, embracing the contemporary mores of the English town where they lived but disgracing themselves in the eyes of their close-knit Pakistani community. Rumors about their disappearance abound, but five months go by before anything certain is known... Read more >
Written by Nadeem Aslam
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: May 9, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7697-0 (1-4000-7697-8)
Jugnu and his lover, Chanda, have disappeared. Though unmarried, they had been living together, embracing the contemporary mores of the English town where they lived but disgracing themselves in the eyes of their close-knit Pakistani community. Rumors about their disappearance abound, but five months go by before anything certain is known... Read more >
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The Wasted Vigil
Written by Nadeem Aslam
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38874-2 (0-307-38874-3)
In The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam, the award-winning author of Maps for Lost Lovers, brilliantly knits together five seemingly unconnected lives to create a luminous story set in contemporary Afghanistan.
There’s Marcus, an English expat who was married to an outspoken Afghani doctor; David, a former American spy; Lara, from St. Petersburg... Read more >
Written by Nadeem Aslam
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 8, 2009
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-38874-2 (0-307-38874-3)
In The Wasted Vigil, Nadeem Aslam, the award-winning author of Maps for Lost Lovers, brilliantly knits together five seemingly unconnected lives to create a luminous story set in contemporary Afghanistan.
There’s Marcus, an English expat who was married to an outspoken Afghani doctor; David, a former American spy; Lara, from St. Petersburg... Read more >
The Wasted Vigil
Written by Nadeem Aslam
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26842-6 (0-307-26842-X)
The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel—at once lyrical and blistering—about war in our time, told through the lives of five people who come together in post-9/11 Afghanistan.
Marcus, an English doctor whose progressive, outspoken Afghani wife was murdered by the Taliban, opens his home—itself an eerily... Read more >
Written by Nadeem Aslam
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 9, 2008
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-26842-6 (0-307-26842-X)
The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel—at once lyrical and blistering—about war in our time, told through the lives of five people who come together in post-9/11 Afghanistan.
Marcus, an English doctor whose progressive, outspoken Afghani wife was murdered by the Taliban, opens his home—itself an eerily... Read more >
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The Hero's Walk
Written by Anita Rau Badami
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 26, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-45092-0 (0-345-45092-2)
The Hero’s Walk is a remarkably intimate novel that fills the senses with the unique textures of India. With humor and keen insight, Anita Rau Badami draws us into her story of the graceful heroism of the ordinary.
In a small, dusty town in India, Sripathi Rao struggles as a copywriter to... Read more >
Written by Anita Rau Badami
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: February 26, 2002
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-45092-0 (0-345-45092-2)
The Hero’s Walk is a remarkably intimate novel that fills the senses with the unique textures of India. With humor and keen insight, Anita Rau Badami draws us into her story of the graceful heroism of the ordinary.
In a small, dusty town in India, Sripathi Rao struggles as a copywriter to... Read more >
What the Body Remembers
A Novel
Written by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49605-6 (0-385-49605-2)
Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man.
Roop is a young girl whose mother has died and whose father is deep in debt. So she is elated to learn... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Format: Trade Paperback, 496 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: January 16, 2001
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-49605-6 (0-385-49605-2)
Out of the rich culture of India and the brutal drama of the 1947 Partition comes this lush and eloquent debut novel about two women married to the same man.
Roop is a young girl whose mother has died and whose father is deep in debt. So she is elated to learn... Read more >
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry
From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition
Edited by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72198-1 (0-385-72198-6)
Unmatched in scope and literary quality, The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translations—many new and exclusive to the book—by an array of distinguished translators.
Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from... Read more >
From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition
Edited by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: February 8, 2005
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-72198-1 (0-385-72198-6)
Unmatched in scope and literary quality, The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translations—many new and exclusive to the book—by an array of distinguished translators.
Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from... Read more >
Chinese Erotic Poems
Edited by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $12.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-26567-8 (0-307-26567-6)
The ancient Chinese tradition of erotic poetry has been largely ignored in the west. Now, a vast continent of sensual verse is opened to us with this glorious collection spanning nearly three thousand years and including many poems never before translated into English.
Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping have brought together... Read more >
Edited by Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
Publisher: Everyman's Library
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $12.50
ISBN: 978-0-307-26567-8 (0-307-26567-6)
The ancient Chinese tradition of erotic poetry has been largely ignored in the west. Now, a vast continent of sensual verse is opened to us with this glorious collection spanning nearly three thousand years and including many poems never before translated into English.
Tony Barnstone and Chou Ping have brought together... Read more >
Narrow Road to the Interior
Written by Matsuo Basho
Illustrated by Stephen Addiss
Translated by Sam Hamill
Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-0-87773-644-8 (0-87773-644-8)
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Written by Matsuo Basho
Illustrated by Stephen Addiss
Translated by Sam Hamill
Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
Publisher: Shambhala
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $9.95
ISBN: 978-0-87773-644-8 (0-87773-644-8)
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The Dhammapada
Verses on the Way
Written by Buddha
Translated by Glenn Wallis
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 7, 2004
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-64307-4 (0-679-64307-9)
In this elegant new translation, Sanskrit scholar Glenn Wallis has exclusively referred to and quoted from the canonical suttas–the presumed earliest discourses of the Buddha. In 423 verses gathered by subject into chapters, the editor offers us a distillation of core Buddhist teachings. He also includes a chapter-by-chapter explication of the... Read more >
Verses on the Way
Written by Buddha
Translated by Glenn Wallis
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Modern Library
On Sale: September 7, 2004
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-64307-4 (0-679-64307-9)
In this elegant new translation, Sanskrit scholar Glenn Wallis has exclusively referred to and quoted from the canonical suttas–the presumed earliest discourses of the Buddha. In 423 verses gathered by subject into chapters, the editor offers us a distillation of core Buddhist teachings. He also includes a chapter-by-chapter explication of the... Read more >
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May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons
A Journey Among the Women of India
Written by Elisabeth Bumiller
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: April 30, 1991
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-449-90614-9 (0-449-90614-0)
In a chronicle rich in diversity, detail, and empathy, Elisabeth Bumiller illuminates the many women's lives she shared, and the contradictions she encountered during her three and a half years in India as a reporter for The Washington Post. In their fascinating, complex, and often tragic stories Bumiller found a strength... Read more >
A Journey Among the Women of India
Written by Elisabeth Bumiller
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books
On Sale: April 30, 1991
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-449-90614-9 (0-449-90614-0)
In a chronicle rich in diversity, detail, and empathy, Elisabeth Bumiller illuminates the many women's lives she shared, and the contradictions she encountered during her three and a half years in India as a reporter for The Washington Post. In their fascinating, complex, and often tragic stories Bumiller found a strength... Read more >
Bangkok 8
A Novel
Written by John Burdett
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3290-7 (1-4000-3290-3)
A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities.
Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the... Read more >
A Novel
Written by John Burdett
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: July 13, 2004
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-1-4000-3290-7 (1-4000-3290-3)
A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world’s most exotic cities.
Witnessed by a throng of gaping spectators, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok bridge inside a bolted-shut Mercedes Benz. Among the witnesses are the... Read more >
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Bangkok Tattoo
Written by John Burdett
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4045-2 (1-4000-4045-0)
From the author of the best seller Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep.
We return to District 8—the underbelly of Bangkok’s underworld—where a dramatically mutilated dead body is found. It’s bad: he was CIA. It gets... Read more >
Written by John Burdett
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $24.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4045-2 (1-4000-4045-0)
From the author of the best seller Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep.
We return to District 8—the underbelly of Bangkok’s underworld—where a dramatically mutilated dead body is found. It’s bad: he was CIA. It gets... Read more >
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abridged audiobook download,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
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American Eyes
New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults
Written by Lori Carlson
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: December 30, 1995
Price: $6.99
ISBN: 978-0-449-70448-6 (0-449-70448-3)
In this unique collection of touching and heartfelt short stories, ten young Asian-American writers re-create the conflicts that all young people feel living in two distinct worlds -- one of memories and traditions, and one of today. Whether it includes dreams of gossiping with the prettiest blond girl in class, not... Read more >
New Asian-American Short Stories for Young Adults
Written by Lori Carlson
Format: Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Fawcett
On Sale: December 30, 1995
Price: $6.99
ISBN: 978-0-449-70448-6 (0-449-70448-3)
In this unique collection of touching and heartfelt short stories, ten young Asian-American writers re-create the conflicts that all young people feel living in two distinct worlds -- one of memories and traditions, and one of today. Whether it includes dreams of gossiping with the prettiest blond girl in class, not... Read more >
Love in a Fallen City
Written by Eileen Chang
Translated by Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-178-3 (1-59017-178-0)
A New York Review Books Original
“[A] giant of modern Chinese literature” –The New York Times
"With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernity. She was one of the very few able truly to connect... Read more >
Written by Eileen Chang
Translated by Karen S. Kingsbury and Eileen Chang
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: October 10, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-178-3 (1-59017-178-0)
A New York Review Books Original
“[A] giant of modern Chinese literature” –The New York Times
"With language as sharp as a knife edge, Eileen Chang cut open a huge divide in Chinese culture, between the classical patriarchy and our troubled modernity. She was one of the very few able truly to connect... Read more >
English, August
An Indian Story
Written by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Introduction by Akhil Sharma
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-179-0 (1-59017-179-9)
Agastya Sen, the hero of English, August, is a child of the Indian elite. His father is the governor of Bengal. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. He himself has secured a position in the most prestigious and exclusive of Indian government agencies, the IAS.
Agastya’s first assignment is to the... Read more >
An Indian Story
Written by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Introduction by Akhil Sharma
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: NYRB Classics
On Sale: April 4, 2006
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-1-59017-179-0 (1-59017-179-9)
Agastya Sen, the hero of English, August, is a child of the Indian elite. His father is the governor of Bengal. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. He himself has secured a position in the most prestigious and exclusive of Indian government agencies, the IAS.
Agastya’s first assignment is to the... Read more >
The Immortals
Written by Amit Chaudhuri
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27022-1 (0-307-27022-X)
The award-winning author of A New World now gives us an incantatory novel—at once plaintive and comic—about the powerful undercurrent of cultural and familial tradition in a society enthralled with the future.
Bombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trained by his father in the classical idiom... Read more >
Written by Amit Chaudhuri
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: August 25, 2009
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-307-27022-1 (0-307-27022-X)
The award-winning author of A New World now gives us an incantatory novel—at once plaintive and comic—about the powerful undercurrent of cultural and familial tradition in a society enthralled with the future.
Bombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trained by his father in the classical idiom... Read more >
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A New World
A Novel
Written by Amit Chaudhuri
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 5, 2002
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72480-0 (0-375-72480-X)
Freedom Song, his acclaimed trilogy of short novels, established Amit Chaudhuri as one of our most distinctive Indian writers. In A New World he once again infuses a quiet tale of family life with extraordinary depth and compassion.
A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee travels to his native Calcutta with his... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Amit Chaudhuri
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: February 5, 2002
Price: $12.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72480-0 (0-375-72480-X)
Freedom Song, his acclaimed trilogy of short novels, established Amit Chaudhuri as one of our most distinctive Indian writers. In A New World he once again infuses a quiet tale of family life with extraordinary depth and compassion.
A year after his divorce, Jayojit Chatterjee travels to his native Calcutta with his... Read more >
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