Revenge. A dish best served cold. Or if you're Sydney native Lola Wedd, with a broken heart and a life in chaos, a dish served up by heading to India to marry a total stranger as part of an international visa scam. Lola naïvely thought she would 'find herself' in India. Instead she is enmeshed in a drama worthy of Bollywood, starring an abandoned Pariah dog, a dead civil servant, a vengeful actor, a suicidal housewife, a boutique hotel owner, a blushing chauffeur, an absent groom, an ambitious girl journalist and a megalomaniac monkey. As Lola begins to understand the consequences of her choices, she ignites a series of events that lead to a Diwali Festival more explosive than anyone in New Delhi could have imagined.
UNDIVORCED, is an interesting biographical portrayal of Paarthiv from Kashmir, in the early fifties of the last century. He was transferred by his employer to Calcutta, only after three months of his marriage; much to the utter displeasure of the new weds then, of course for the obvious reasons. As ill luck would have it, he lost his job there, for whatever reasons and went penniless. He was neither able to return back home, nor was he able to sustain his living as a stranger to the city there, unfamiliar to him in every respect, including the ethnic language for communication. . But being an embodiment of confidence and courage, he fought his way to rise from destitution to an enviable affluence, and came to be regarded as one of the most charismatic alien celebrities of the place, known otherwise for its orthodox civility. However, in the world of audacious society there, he stayed alienated from his wife, who had given birth to his son, only about six months of his departure from his home. The couple remained alienated and estranged from each other for sixteen long years. Then the happy rendezvous of the family took place, through a fateful coincidence, brought about by Parijat, the mentor of their son, interestingly personified by the author himself. The period that followed is an absorbing description of funny incidents, superstition, travels to places, atonement, teen-age romance and a saga of highs and lows, offered by the life in many wishful and weird ways. The novel establishes the fact of life as: “A Spectacle of Characters, Episodes and Scenes –Scripted by Destiny”, which makes it a very interesting read.
The A List edition of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s enduring novel, a raw, unsentimental story of life in a small Caribbean community. Featuring a new introduction by David Chariandy Set in the Eastern Caribbean at the beginning of the twentieth century, No Pain Like this Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father, and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss. Through vivid, vertiginous prose, and with brilliant economy and originality, Ladoo creates a fearful world of violation and grief, in the face of which even the most despairing efforts to endure stand out as acts of courage.
Using the historical principles of the Oxford English Dictionary, Lise Winer presents the first scholarly dictionary of this unique language. The dictionary comprises over 12,200 entries, including over 4500 for flora and fauna alone, with numerous cross-references. Entries include definitions, alternative spellings, pronunciations, etymologies, grammatical information, and illustrative citations of usage. Winer draws from a wide range of sources - newspapers, literature, scientific reports, sound recordings of songs and interviews, spoken language - to provide a wealth and depth of language, clearly situated within a historical, cultural, and social context.
Thousands of new immigrants from non-English speaking countries are moving to North America almost every week. After reaching here, they face several problems due to lack of knowledge of English. This book has been prepared for those people who want to learn English properly and assimilate into North American culture and society. This book has been written to help new comers in many ways. This book first teaches the readers the basic grammar in a very simple and interesting way. A new chart for learning simple tenses is the research of Prof. Avtar S Virdi, the author of this book, which has made English pretty easy for learners and thousands of learners attest that this chart had been a big help for them. There are several hundreds of question-answers for preparing for various interviews and personality development. Besides this, readers can learn how to tell their daily routines, give road-directions to someone and communicate with doctors, nurses, and tradesmen. There are five IELTS speaking modules explained for IELTS students. Those who want to prepare for Canadian or the U.S. citizenship tests can get great help from this book. That’s why this is book is very rightly titled “Marvelous English Multi-purpose Guide”. Prof. Virdi who is the director of GTP Marvelous College, Surrey, BC, Canada, has also written “Marvelous English Grammar” and “Marvelous English Essays”, and he claims if any one shows and proves any books better and helpful than his books he would award him or her $ 10,000. What a confidence! Wouldn’t you try to accept his challenge and read his books? Either you learn great things or you can win this grand award. You will be in win-win situation. For any feedback, you can contact the author at 1-604-727-3340 or email at [email protected]
A talented new writer whose portrayal of the serious business of assimilation and young masculinity is disturbing and hilarious Hailed as one of the most surprising British novels in recent years, Gautam Malkani's electrifying debut reveals young South Asians struggling to distinguish themselves from their parents' generation in the vast urban sprawl that is contemporary London. Chronicling the lives of a gang of four young middle-class men-Hardjit, the violent enforcer; Ravi, the follower; Amit, who's struggling to come to terms with his mother's hypocrisy; and Jas, desperate to win the approval of the others despite lusting after Samira, a Muslim girl-Londonstani, funny, disturbing, and written in the exuberant language of its protagonists, is about tribalism, aggressive masculinity, integration, alienation, bling-bling economics, and "complicated family-related shit."
THE UNSAID is a tour of love, sensations, benevolence and feelings through which we find ourselves bounded with. Its different shades are. 1. THE UNSAID.................I love you 2. THE SENTENCE 3. THE DISGUISE 4. WE TOO ENJOY LIVES 5. I LOVE DOGS.... Let’s have visit to this mystic realm of words....... HRICHA SHAHI
First published by Anansi in 1972, No Pain Like This Body remains a classic of Canadian and Caribbean writing. Set in a turn-of-the-century Hindu community in the Eastern Caribbean, the novel describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken and unpredictable father, and the violence of the elements end in unbearable loss. Through vivid, vertiginous prose, and with brilliant economy and originality, Ladoo creates a fearful world of violation and grief, in the face of which even the most despairing efforts to endure stand out as acts of raw courage.
India does not have 29 states as it claims, but 30 states, 30th being Bhastapur. Bhastapur is so downtrodden and corrupt that India feels ashamed to include it in its map. The story happens in a women’s prison located in Bhastapur. It is about the animosity between female inmates and the tyrannical jailer, Baal Rana, who rules the prison. Baal does not leave a stone unturned to torture every woman in the prison. After constant tortures and mysterious murders, the women of the prison decide to bring a change. But how can they bring change without getting caught? Will they ever get rid of Baal Rana? Will they ever taste freedom? Will the state of Bhastapur change?
