June 2021

Train to Pakistan, Khushwant Singh

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Book: Train to Pakistan Author: Khushwant Singh Publication: Penguin; 1st edition (2 February 2016); Penguin India Pages: 192 Price: Click the link  Backdrop: Set up in the historical background of partition in 1947 Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh is a masterpiece of literature. The unresolved massacre and bloodshed is documented very emphatically yet cogent […]

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The Great Gatsby,F Scott Fitzgerald

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Book: The Great Gatsby Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Publication:  Fingerprint! Publishing; First edition (1 January 2014) Pages: 224 Price: Click the link  Introduction: Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!” The novel

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Autobiography of a Mad Nation, Sriram Karri

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  Book: Autobiography of a Mad Nation Author: Sriram Karri Publication: Fingerprint Pages: 384 Price: Click the link Review Rate: 3 Introduction: A journalist by profession, Sriram Karri begins his journey as a writer with his debut novel, The Spiritual Supermarket in 2007. But his acclamation as an author comes into the limelight with the book:

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Poonachi, The Story of a Goat, Perumal Murugan

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Book:  Poonachi Author: Perumal Murugan Publication: Context Pages: 184 Price: Click the link Review Rate: 5 Introduction: \”How long can an untold story rest in deep slumber within the dormant seed? I am fearful of writing about humans; … Let me write about animals.\” Perumal Murugan is a celebrated name in Tamil Literature. His every

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Despite Stolen Dreams

Despite Stolen Dream, Anita Krishnan

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  Book: Despite Stolen Dream Author: Anita Krishnan Publication: Fingerprint Publication Pages: 304 Price: Click the link Introduction: \” No one seemed to notice the solitary man with his face half-hidden behind the raised collar of his jacket braving the piercing wind and walking through the Avenue of trees as if he had no care

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The Thousand Faces of Night, Githa Hariharan

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  Book: The Thousand Faces of Night Author: Githa Hariharan Publication: Penguin India Pages: 144 Price: Click the link  Introduction: \”Her hand seemed to turn me away from the indecisive confusion of my last months in Amery; she seemed to have silently articulated the pattern she had perceived in the jigsaw puzzle that confronted me.”

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White Noise

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Book: White Noise Author: Shruti Upadhaya Publication: BEE Speed Reads Pages: 140 Price: Click the link  “I hold the pen,but they control the writing.White Noise happened to me.I didn’t create my characters,My characters created themselves.”(From author’s blog: thestorytellersparadise.wordpress.com) Introduction: \”I wanted to trust him. I really wish he would let me.\” In 2019 there was

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The Poison of Love, By K.R. Meera

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  The Poison of Love By K.R. Meera Publication:  Penguin Random House India Introduction: K. R. Meera, an eminent Indian author and journalist who writes in Malayalam and is known for such famous novels as The Gospel of Yudas, Hangwoman etc, is again sparkling with unique vivacity in The Poison of Love. Translated by MINISTHYS,

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