Reaching Far andamp; Beyond

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"It is 1995, and Anvar Faris is a restless, rebellious, and sharp-tongued boy doing his best to grow up in Karachi, Pakistan. As fundamentalism takes root within the social order and the zealots next door attempt to make Islam great again, his family decides,...

"This inventive retelling ofand Pride and Prejudiceand charms."--People"A fun, page-turning romp and a thought-provoking look at the class-obsessed strata of Pakistani society."--NPRAlys Binat has sworn never to marry--until an encounter with one Mr. Darsee at a wedding makes her reconsider.A scandal and vicious rumor...

*Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2020* Poignantly paints the extraordinary in ordinary lives. A brilliant first book from Hussain.'The Sunday Post An evocative portrayal of love and family.'and Ayisha Malik'Invites you in, not as a stranger but as a family friend. I...

*The international bestseller**and One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'*"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough..."Ella Rubinstein has a husband,...

. .Gautam Joshi is thirty years old, with a job in a call centre that his parentsthink is just one step up from unemployment and in a relationship that hisgirlfriend Michelle thinks is going nowhere. But Gautam loves his world.He makes more money than...

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3 Books In One Set:UnmarriageableA Way Of Being FreeThe Corridor - (PB) Liberty Publication

A beautiful, powerful new novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of "Sister of My Heart" and "The Mistress of Spices" about three generations of mothers and daughters who must discover their greatest source of strength in one another a masterful, brilliant tale of a...

A burnt-out New York cop; an eighty-year-old Parsi sitting in a decaying Karachi mansion; a hitman whose days are numbered; a journalist who dreams of the big time.When a Jewish woman is killed on the steps of the Natural History Museum in New York,...

A deeply moving tale of suffering and courage of people forced into bonded labour. About the Book: Masih, a farmer, is indentured to landowner Mohammed Hakim. Forced by exploitation and utter poverty, Masih contracts his seven-year-old son Patrus to serve a six-year apprenticeship in...

A detailed examination of hunger in India, based on case studies from 10 years of research in 9 states! Ash in the Belly is a penetrating account of men, women and children living with hunger, illuminated by their courage in trying to cope and...

A stunning debut novel - a noir-inspired thrillerand that weaves in politics, family ties, corruption and murder,while also being sharp about different kinds of power,and particularly as it relates to women'' Kamila Shamsie'A rich and deeply moving novel about confronting histories both personal and...

A ground-breaking look at the sexual revolution that is beginning to sweep through urban india. The national bestseller india in love: marriage and sexuality in the 21st century is a ground-breaking look at the sexual revolution that is starting to sweep through urban india....

A hugely entertaining novel about love, sex and adventure. Youre a girl from the land of the Kamasutra. And everyone expects your love skills to comprise the acrobatic, the inventive, the superlative. You try, of course, to game- ly meet the baffling requirements of...

A love story between an Indian photographer and a French artist, Letters from an Indian Summer is suffused with a strong sense of serendipity and spiritually liberal doses of the things Arjun Bedi and Genevieve Casta hold dear in this world. The past, though,...

A masterpiece, one of the great books written about an unforgettable metropolis! In 1999, Amit Chaudhuri returned with his family to Calcutta. He did so tentatively. Calcutta was where his parents had moved after retirement; it was the city he had loved in his...

A middle-aged bachelor heading the editorial at a newspaper in an imagined country in the Arabian Gulf, Abbas is beset by loneliness and the attendant regret - a life punctuated by ifs and maybes, and the dreariness of the dry and dusty shamal winds....

A moving story of love and redemption set in Trinidad, that exposes the fault lines in Indo-Muslim culture, as it explores three generations of a family who move from being indentured labourers to wealthy business owners.The Yard is a large compound in the Republic...

A murder, a miscarriage of justice, and a man too innocent for his times . . .Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer,...

My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon.' Thus beginsand Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life. With...

and A NEW NOVELand BYand THE AUTHOR OFand THE HENNA ARTIST, and A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK"Captivated me from the first chapter to the last page." -Reese Witherspoon onand The Henna ArtistInand New York Timesand bestselling author Alka Joshi's intriguing new novel, henna artist...

Aand NEW YORK TIMESand BESTSELLER• OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK • WINNER OF THEand PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONand • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER• Aand NEW YORK TIMESand NOTABLE BOOKand • MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD“Quietly powerful [and] moving. O, The Oprah Magazine...

A nine-year-old Kurdish boy plays in his village in the Persian mountains, gazing over the land of his fathers and forefathers. But when messengers from the hills bring whispers of war and rumours that the Shah's army is on the march, he must stand...

A novel about sexual duplicity and intrigue with a charismatic godman at its centre An ashram in northern India becomes the arena for a tale of love and intrigue, against the backdrop of communal Achants and exaggerated paraphernalia of public spirituality. It begins with...

A Pakistani lawyer, defends an innocent boy accused of an unspeakable crime, punishable by death. The lawyer confronts religious extremists, assassins, forbidden love, a corrupt judicial system, and a powerful soothsayer's prediction that the lawyer will die unless he abandons the case. The book...

A profoundly beautiful novel that infolds the political with the personal in unexpected and new ways . . . An extraordinary book' Neel Mukherjee, New Statesman, 'Books of the Year 2016' 'His stories take the reader into the labyrinth that is the mind ....

A quick-witted satire for anyone who has struggled with weight-loss issues only to realize that the journey is filled with many failed diets and cravings.Zoie has tried all possible diets, she is now turning 40 and the body she dreamt off is not happening....

A Restless Wind describes the position of rajas of the princely states of India amidst the flux of a transforming nation. Intertwining memory with contemporary events, it evokes a beautiful past and a troubled present, providing a vivid and intense read.

A runaway kid from the most powerful family in Hyderabad, Kanu is a twenty-two-year-old hacker. His mission in life is to destroy his uncle, Rana, and take control over Sathyamev Computers, a billion-dollar company originally started by his father. Together with the beautiful Darshu,...

A shadowy warlord known only as Guldaar has built an empire based on drug-running, arms-dealing and cold-blooded murder over the Hindu Kush in Pakistan and Afghanistan, into India, the Middle East and extending all the way to America. A deadly puppet-master, he plays tribal...

A sharply plotted espionage thriller Balochistan, 2003: a drama of insurgency and international intrigue unfolds in Pakistan's dust bowl province. At the centre of it is the Mir, a militant Baloch separatist driven as much by the need to seek revenge as he is...

A small Karachi neighbourhood, Chakiwara is humdrum and unspectacular to all appearances. But inside its shops and at the street corners, there is curious business afoot. Chronicling the drama that unfolds daily is Iqbal Hussain Changezi, bakery owner and collector of writers and geniuses....

A small-town boy moves to the big city to get away from a government-job-obsessed family and live the good life. But its not easy being just another nightshift worker. It was crisis time, and the call centre vets were not showing up. The managers...

A society woman decides to educate' a man and is met with impropriety, a small group of European settlers find themselves socially compromised by each other's infidelity, and a second-rate woman' proves herself worthy in the eyes of the women of Shimla. Light-hearted and...

A software mogul gears up to launch a revolutionary surveillance system. A terrorist mastermind prepares to wage war against the Indian state. A young man is found dead under suspicious circumstances. One morning, the body of a young man is found by the railway...

A spinner of yarn called Kalaam discovers his culinary gift and passes on his knowledge to his son Param who in turn passes it to his son Pakhwaan who inherits the gift. Svetlana, a Russian-American comes across Pakhwaan and his mouth-watering Vindaloo and invites...

A storm batters a hillside farmstead through the night, and the family living in it debates its decision to give up the comforts of Darjeeling town for the pride of owning land. Ancient law allows Harshajit to cut down Rudraman, who has staked claim...

A thunderstorm blows the roof off a village school. Guruji, the school teacher, who lives in the school building with his family is forced to seek shelter in the lock-up of an abandoned police station. The school house opens to the sky and this...

A unique anthology of writing on Indian fiction. This book is the first of its kind: 50 essays by 50 writers who thought so passionately of their favourite book that they leapt to the task of representing it here. Within these pages ,Siddharth Chowdhury...

A vivid and intricate novel-in-stories,and The Scatter Here Is Too Greatand explores the complicated lives of ordinary people whose fates unexpectedly converge after a deadly bomb blast at the Karachi train station: an old communist poet; his wealthy, middle-aged son; a young man caught...

A well-known figure in Pune, Achyut Athavale is a retired economist of wide-ranging interests and some social standing. He is often invited to give lectures and speak at public events. One such speech results in a riot taking place in the city, leading a...

A young kleptomaniac infuses thrill into her suffocating life by using her abaya to steal lipsticks and flash men. An office worker feels empowered through sex, shunning her inhibitions but not her hijab … until she realizes that the real veil is drawn across...

A young Pakistani woman is the victim of an unthinkable act of vengeance, when she defies convention for love, facing seemingly insurmountable challenges and danger as she attempts to rebuild her life.and Stunning, shocking, compulsive reading … A breathtaking masterpiece'and Hazel Priorand Pacy, gripping...

Expect to be heartbroken'and Elle One of the most eagerly awaited debuts of 2022'and Sunday Times Its ending brought me close to tears' Beth O'Leary, author ofand The Flatshare Ever fallen in love with messy, confusing consequences for everyone involved? Thenand Good Intentionsand is...

He was leaving behind the house which he no longer cared for but still felt in his blood. He'll surely return but will the house then be as it is now? Will the people whose presence makes the house with five courtyards a veritable...

I write because I need you to know what I cannot say. I write about the past, about family, about country, because they all speak to me about my father…'Addressed to Hyder, his son, Omar Zafarullah's A Hundred Journeys is part memoir and part...

If you're being raped, call your perpetrator “bhaiya and he will stop.- Asaram Bapu, holyman'. Chowmein and fast food causes rapes.' - Haryana Khap Panchayat. '(Some) Women protesting rape are dented and painted.'- Abhijit Mukherjee, The President's son. Ladies: throw away your pepper sprays....

Stories and food remain the same, only faces change and those too only vaguely. The same faces keep coming back every few generations to eat the same food and live out the same stories.'Ayesha realizes that her relationship with food has made her obese...