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Author: Mira Kamdar
Publisher: Plume Books
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780452282698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe daughter of an Indian father and Danish-American mother traces her family's journey from an isolated corner in India, delving into the history of her Indian grandmother, following the family's emigration from feudal India to Bombay, then onward to America.
Author: Mira Kamdar
Publisher:
Published: 2000-09-06
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMira Kamdar recounts her efforts to rediscover her roots and learn more about her Indian heritage.
Author: Vikram Chandra
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-03-03
Total Pages: 1203
ISBN-13: 0571267149
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn enormously satisfying, exciting and enriching book, Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the lives of detective Sartaj Singh and Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. Sartaj, the only Sikh inspector in the whole of Mumbai, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But 'the silky Sikh' is now past forty, his marriage is over and his career prospects are on the slide. When Sartaj gets an anonymous tip off as to the secret hideout of the legendary boss of the G-company, he's determined that he'll be the one to collect the prize. This is a sprawling, epic novel of friendships and betrayals, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its underworld. Drawing on the best of Victorian fiction, mystery novels, Bollywood movies and Vikram Chandra's years of first hand research on the streets of Mumbai, this novel reads like a potboiling page-turner but resonates with the intelligence and emotional depth of the best of literature.
Author: Women of South Asian Descent Collective
Publisher:
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFiction and non-fiction on South Asians living in the U.S. In Anu Murgai's A Marriage Proposal, a woman reprimands her future daughter-in-law for not appearing shy, in Zinab Ali's Daddy, a daughter reproaches her father for taking a second wife.
Author: S. Mitra Kalita
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780813536651
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocuses on three waves of immigration in the post-civil rights era through the stories of three families: the Kotharis, Patels and Sarmas. This book attempts to answer the question of how and why they arrived, and it offers a window into what America has become; a nation of suburbs as well as a nation of immigrants.
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2015-05-11
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 110191209X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection Pranab Chakraborty was a fellow Bengali from Calcutta who had washed up on the shores of Central Square. Soon he was one of the family. From the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, a staggeringly beautiful and precise story about a Bengali family in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the impossibilities of love, and the unanticipated pleasures and complications of life in America. “Hell-Heaven” is Jhumpa Lahiri’s ode to the intimate secrets of closest kin, from the acclaimed collection Unaccustomed Earth. An eBook short.
Author: Pheroze Nowrojee
Publisher: Manqa Books
Published: 2019-06-05
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9789966736062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPheroze Nowrojee's family came to Kenya in 1896 to work on the railway. In rich, layered prose, this book examines how that voyage from India became a Kenyan journey, how the railway became the family's own journey as Kenyans. Against this backdrop of the family's story, the book reflects on Kenya's history over the last hundred years and the chequered Asian African story within it. The family story interweaves with the country's major events, including the building of the Uganda Railway with indentured labour from India, the First World War in Kenya, the Emergency, independence, and the 1982 coup attempt, to result in a book that offers fresh insights into the national story.
Author: Abraham Verghese
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2023-12-12
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 0063389916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive, from Abraham Verghese, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water, an Oprah's Book Club Pick. “Heartbreaking. . . . Indelible and haunting, [The Tennis Partner] is an elegy to friendship found, and an ode to a good friend lost.”—The Boston Globe When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to El Paso, Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at the county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to shed their inhibitions and find security in the sport they love and with each other. This friendship between doctor and intern grows increasingly rich and complex, more intimate than two men usually allow. Just when it seems nothing can go wrong, the dark beast from David’s past emerges once again—and almost everything Verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened as David spirals out of control.
Author: Jeremy Bernstein
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWarren Hastings, Britain's first governor-elect of India, was in the 18th century the person most responsible for the creation of British rule in India, according to the author. Hastings' eventual and dramatic impeachment forms the conclusion to Bernstein's unusual and powerful narrative. 12 illustrations.
Author: Abraham Verghese
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1995-04-25
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0679752927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the author of The Covenant of Water and New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone: a story of medicine in the American heartland, and confronting one's deepest prejudices and fears. “Remarkable.... An account of the [AIDS] plague years in America. Beautifully written…by a doctor who was changed and shaped by his patients.” —The New York Times Book Review Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an “urban problem” had arrived in the town to stay. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS expert, soon besieged by a shocking number of male and female patients whose stories came to occupy his mind, and even take over his life. Verghese brought a singular perspective to Johnson City: as a doctor unique in his abilities; as an outsider who could talk to people suspicious of local practitioners; above all, as a writer of grace and compassion who saw that what was happening in this conservative community was both a medical and a spiritual emergency.
