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Shantaram

2004-10-13 Fiction
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Release : 2004-10-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 270/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Shantaram by : Gregory David Roberts

Download or read book Shantaram written by Gregory David Roberts. This book was released on 2004-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on his own extraordinary life, Gregory David Roberts’ Shantaram is a mesmerizing novel about a man on the run who becomes entangled within the underworld of contemporary Bombay—the basis for the Apple + TV series starring Charlie Hunnam. “It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.” An escaped convict with a false passport, Lin flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of Bombay, where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter the city’s hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere. As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city’s poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power. Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas—this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart.

A Fine Balance

2010-10-29 Fiction
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Release : 2010-10-29
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 381/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Fine Balance by : Rohinton Mistry

Download or read book A Fine Balance written by Rohinton Mistry. This book was released on 2010-10-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry’s stunning internationally acclaimed bestseller, is set in mid-1970s India. It tells the story of four unlikely people whose lives come together during a time of political turmoil soon after the government declares a “State of Internal Emergency.” Through days of bleakness and hope, their circumstances – and their fates – become inextricably linked in ways no one could have foreseen. Mistry’s prose is alive with enduring images and a cast of unforgettable characters. Written with compassion, humour, and insight, A Fine Balance is a vivid, richly textured, and powerful novel written by one of the most gifted writers of our time.

A Dilli - Mumbai Love Story

2012 Fiction
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Release : 2012
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 335/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Dilli - Mumbai Love Story by : Abhimanyu Jha,

Download or read book A Dilli - Mumbai Love Story written by Abhimanyu Jha,. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abhimanyu (Abhi) writes about men and women falling in love, and then running into people who wouldn’t let them live happily ever after. While also running Talent Bridge, www.talentbridge.co.in, he plans to write more till the world needs such saving, catch him @ abhimanyujha.com, Twitter (4abhimanyu), facebook.com/4abhimanyu or [email protected].

Mumbai Fables

2010-10-10 History
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Release : 2010-10-10
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 84X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Mumbai Fables by : Gyan Prakash

Download or read book Mumbai Fables written by Gyan Prakash. This book was released on 2010-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from the catastrophic floods and terrorist attacks of recent years, Prakash reaches back to the sixteenth-century Portuguese conquest to reveal the stories behind Mumbai's historic journey. Examining Mumbai's role as a symbol of opportunity and reinvention, he looks at its nineteenth-century development under British rule and its twentieth-century emergence as a fabled city on the sea. Different layers of urban experience come to light as he recounts the narratives of the Nanavati murder trial and the rise and fall of the tabloid Blitz, and Mumbai's transformation from the red city of trade unions and communists into the saffron city of Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena. Starry-eyed planners and elite visionaries, cynical leaders and violent politicians of the street, land sharks and underworld dons jostle with ordinary citizens and poor immigrants as the city copes with the dashed dreams of postcolonial urban life and lurches into the seductions of globalization. --

No Presents Please

2020-07-28 Fiction
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Release : 2020-07-28
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 91X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis No Presents Please by : Jayant Kaikini

Download or read book No Presents Please written by Jayant Kaikini. This book was released on 2020-07-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are stories on the pathos and comedy of small–town migrants struggling to build a life in the big city, with the dream world of Bollywood never far away. Jayant Kaikini’s gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbai—a bus driver who, denied vacation time, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for pharmaceutical testing; a father at his wit’s end who takes his mischievous son to a reform institution. In this metropolis, those who seek find epiphanies in dark movie theaters, the jostle of local trains, and even in roadside keychains and lost thermos flasks. Here, in the shade of an unfinished overpass, a factory–worker and her boyfriend browse wedding invitations bearing wealthy couples’ affectations—”no presents please”—and look once more at what they own. Translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana, these resonant stories, recently awarded the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, take us to photo framers, flower markets, and Irani cafes, revealing a city trading in fantasies while its strivers, eating once a day and sleeping ten to a room, hold secret ambitions close.

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