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024511
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London, Schuster, 2016.
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210pPale blue spine
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A new novel from the author of Oleander Girl, a novel in stories, built around crucial moments in the lives of three generations of women in an Indian-American Family. "A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of Sister of My Heart and The Mistress of Spies about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another--a masterful, brilliant tale of a family both united and torn apart by ambition and love. The daughter of a poor baker in rural Bengal, India, Sabitri yearns to get an education, but her family's situation means college is an impossible dream. Then an influential woman from Kolkata takes Sabitri under her wing, but her generosity soon proves dangerous after the girl makes a single, unforgivable misstep. Years later, Sabitri's own daughter, Bela, haunted by her mother's choices, flees abroad with her political refugee lover--but the America she finds is vastly different from the country she'd imagined. As the marriage crumbles and Bela is forced to forge her own path, she unwittingly imprints her own child, Tara, with indelible lessons about freedom, heartbreak, and loyalty that will take a lifetime to unravel. In her latest novel, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni explores the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, and the different kinds of love that bind us across generations. Before We Visit the Goddess captures the gorgeous complexity of these multi-generational and transcontinental bonds, sweeping across the twentieth century from the countryside of Bengal, India, to the streets of Houston, Texas.
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9781471146930 Hb.
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| I02313 | 823.914/DIV | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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019600
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London, Vintage, 1995.
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174pBlack and green spine
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Nine short stories exploring the complicated relationship of coloniser and colonised, the intimacy and distance, the shared history and the misunderstandings that bind and separate East and West.
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9780099533016 Pb.
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| I01620 | 823.914/RUS | Main | Missing | General | |
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020507
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Gurgaon, Penguin Books, 2014.
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244pBrown spine
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Mala's home in Delhi is empty, save for a lifetime of sketches left behind by her late husband, Asad and the memories they conjure. Sifting through them on restless afternoons and sleepless nights, Mala summons the ghosts of their past. As their story unfolds, others emerge: of Sara, their daughter, who, unable to commit to a cause that will renew her faith in her parents' ideals and her own, embarks on a search for purpose that brings to Ahmedabad, the venue of recent carnage; of Yasmin, whom Sara meets across a lately created ‘border', a survivor of mayhem, secretly dreaming of college and the miraculous return of her missing brother, Akbar; of innumerable other lives trapped in limbo.
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9780143423676 Pb.
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| I01733 | 823.912/HAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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022882
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Gurgaon, Penguin Random House, 2017.
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370pRed spine
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On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architectural jewel of 'the Gardens,' a cloistered community in New York's Greenwich Village. The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble, and the residents are immediately intrigued by the eccentric newcomer and his family.
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9780470090297 Hb.
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| I02103 | 823.914/RUS | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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022502
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Gurgaon, Penguin India, 2017.
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445pWhite spine
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The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety--in search of meaning, and of love. In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. At the Jannat Guest House, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other, as though they have just met. A braided narrative of astonishing force and originality, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once a love story and a provocation--a novel as inventive as it is emotionally engaging.
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9780670089635 Hb.
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| I02071 | 823.92/ROY | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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020482
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Noida, HarperCollins, 2009.
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348pBlack spine
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In the course of twenty-four hours, nine characters across five cities are faced with a pressing need to examine their past. As each of them confronts the reaities within, the world itself explodes into chaos, the disintegration of civic order mirroring the breakdown of individual sanities.
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9788172237790 Pb.
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| I01751 | 823.92/CHA | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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024456
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New Delhi, Penguin, 2017.
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viii, 123pOrange spine
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I have never seen so many people in the bazaar. Bunting, in the form of rival posters and leaflets, is strung across the street. The tea shops are doing a roaring trade. There is much last-minute canvassing. For the first time I learn the names of some of the candidates.
The chaos and urgency of an Indian election comes to a sleepy town in the mountains. In the bazaar of a town that he thought was heartless, the author comes across the most beautiful human being he has met yet. One unhurried morning at a small branch of a bank, a magic oil is handed out. Read these stories and more that bring to life the drama, joys and heartbreaks of life in small town India.
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9788129144942 Pb.
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| I02293 | 823.914/BON | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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