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ISBN / ISSN:
9780099516743
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
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NZ$ 27.00 each
Paperback
Author:
Mohammed Hanif
Published by:
Vintage Books
There is an ancient saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988? Was it because of: mechanical failure, human error, the CIA's impatience, a blind woman's curse, generals not happy with their pension plans, the mango season or could it be your narrator, Ali Shigri? Teasing, provocative, and very, very funny, Mohammed Hanif's debut novel takes one of the subcontinent's enduring mysteries and out if it spins a tale as rich and colourful as a beggar's dream.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781843547228
The White Tiger
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Author:
Aravind Adiga
Published by:
Atlantic Books
Meet Balram Halwai, the 'White Tiger': servant, philosopher, entrepreneur and murderer. Balram, the White Tiger, was born in a backwater village on the River Ganges, the son of a rickshaw-puller. He works in a teashop, crushing coal and wiping tables, but nurses a dream of escape. When he learns that a rich village landlord needs a chauffeur, he takes his opportunity, and is soon on his way to Delhi behind the wheel of a Honda. Amid the cockroaches and call-centres, the 36,000,004 gods, the slums, the shopping malls, and the crippling traffic jams, Balram learns of a new morality at the heart of a new India. Driven by desire to better himself, he comes to see how the Tiger might escape his cage...
Winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize
First published 2008.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780330458535
The Palace of Illusions : A novel
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Published by:
Picador
"The Palace of Illusions" takes us back to a time that is half-history, half-myth, and wholly magical; narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the five Pandava brothers, we are - finally - given a woman's take on the timeless tale that is the Mahabharata. Tracing Panchaali's life - from fiery birth and lonely childhood, where her beloved brother is her only true companion; through her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna; to marriage, motherhood and Panchaali's secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy - "The Palace of Illusions" is a deeply human novel about a woman born into a man's world - a world of warriors, gods and the ever manipulating hands of fate. 'A mythic tale brimming with warriors, magic and treachery' - "Los Angeles Times". 'A radiant entree into an ancient mythology ...Charming and remarkable' - "Houston Chronicle". 'A woman's look at crime and punishment, loyalty, ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781408800874
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Burnt Shadows
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Kamila Shamsie
Published by:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
In a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders. August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes swooping across the back, she is twenty-one, in love with the man she is to marry, Konrad Weiss. In a split second, the world turns white. In the next, it explodes with the sound of fire and the horror of realisation. In the numbing aftermath of a bomb that obliterates everything she has known, all that remains are the bird-shaped burns on her back, an indelible reminder of the world she has lost. In search of new beginnings, she travels to Delhi two years later. There she walks into the lives of Konrad's half-sister, Elizabeth, her husband James Burton, and their employee Sajjad Ashraf, from whom she starts to ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780747597131
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders : Short stories
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NZ$ 40.00 each
Hardback
Author:
Daniyal Mueenuddin
Published by:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
The linked stories in In Other Rooms, Other Wonders illuminate a place and a people as they describe the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family: the servants and dependents in Mr. K.K. Harouni's overflowing Lahore household, the peasants on his estates who rely on his favor, and the parallel world of his industrialist brother, who has distanced himself from the feudal past. Inextricably bound to each other, the characters confront the advantages and constraints of station, the dissolution of old ways, and the shock of change. A girl, a socialite from a decayed feudal family, tires of endless parties, of drinking and drugs, and marries a young landlord in an attempt to reinvent herself. A light-fingered electrician who by tricks and ingenuity supports his twelve daughters comes perilously close to losing all that he has worked for. Elsewhere, an aged laborer by a stroke of luck earns enough money to marry a young, ...
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9780099535096
Midnight's Children (Vintage Booker)
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Author:
Salman Rushdie
Published by:
Vintage Books
Born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, at the precise moment of India's independence, the infant Saleem Sinai is celebrated in the press and welcomed by Prime Minister Nehru himself. But, this coincidence of birth has consequences Saleem is not prepared for: telepathic powers connect him with 1,000 other 'midnight's children' - all born in the initial hour of India's independence - and an uncanny sense of smell which allows him to sniff out dangers others cannot perceive. Inextricably linked to his nation, Saleem's biography is a whirlwind of disasters and triumphs that mirrors the course of modern India at its most impossible and glorious.
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9780747592761
The Hindi-Bindi Club
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Monica Pradhan
Published by:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
For decades they have remained close, sharing recipes and customs, and shaped by ancient ways. They are the Hindi-Bindi Club, a nickname given by their daughters to the mothers who left India to start anew - daughters now facing struggles of their own.
For Kiran, Preity and Rani, adulthood means balance, from the ways they tweak their mothers' cooking to rejecting their parents' beliefs.
But will they have the courage of the Hindi-Bindi Club to hold on to their dreams - or create new ones?
First published 2007.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780571245888
Such a Long Journey (Faber Firsts)
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Author:
Rohinton Mistry
Published by:
Faber and Faber
"Such a Long Journey" is set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family. It was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, and won the 1992 Commonwealth Writers Prize.
First published 1991.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780552772518
Six Suspects
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Author:
Vikas Swarup
Published by:
Black Swan
Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile Minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters with a gun in their possession. Each of them is steaming with a secret motive. India's wiliest investigative journalist, Arun Advani, makes it his mission to nail the murderer. In doing so, the amazing, tender and touching, techni-colour lives of six eccentric personalities unravel before our eyes. But can we trust Advani? Or does he have another agenda in mind...?
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780091925642
The Case of the Missing Servant
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Author:
Tarquin Hall
Published by:
Hutchinson
Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swathe through modern India’s swindlers, cheats and murderers.
In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centres and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri’s main
work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests.
But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puris resources to investigate. How will he trace the fate of the girl, known only as Mary, in a population of more than one billion?
Who is taking pot shots at him and his prize chilli plants? And why is his widowed ‘Mummy-ji’ attempting to
play sleuth when everyone knows Mummies are not detectives?
With his team of undercover operatives – Tubelight, Flush and Facecream – Puri ingeniously combines modern techniques with principles of ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780007312771
Solo
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Rana Dasgupta
Published by:
Fourth Estate
Solo
is a devastating, rapturous novel about the life and daydreams of Ulrich, a one hundred year-old man from Bulgaria.
A blind man approaches his one hundredth birthday in Sofia‚ the Bulgarian capital. Frail and introspective‚ he spends his time musing on a magazine piece he read some years ago‚ before he lost his sight: explorers had come upon a company of jungle parrots that still spoke snatches of the language of an extinct society. The birds were then captured‚ caged and sent home‚ in the hope that linguists might begin to piece together the lost language from their puzzling squawks and screeches. But the birds died on the way back‚ taking with them the last remnants of a disappeared civilisation.
The parallels are all too apparent to the blind man: he fears that he too carries within him only a shredded inheritance‚ and that he is too concussed‚ too remote to pass anything on. Wondering what wisdom he has ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780747596592
Unaccustomed Earth
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author:
Jhumpa Lahiri
Published by:
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Beginning in America, and spilling back over memories and generations to India,
Unaccustomed Earth
explores the heart of family life and the immigrant experience.
Eight luminous stories - longer and richer than any Jhumpa Lahiri has yet written - take us from America to Europe, India and Thailand as they follow new lives forged in the wake of loss.
Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best Book - Eurasia 2009.
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ISBN / ISSN:
9781416526278
Animal's People
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author:
Indra Sinha
Published by:
Pocket Books
Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the Apocalypse visited his slum.
Now not quite twenty, he leads a hand-to-mouth existence with his dog Jara and a crazy old nun called Ma Franci, and spends his nights fantasising about Nisha, the daughter of a local musician, and wondering what it must be like to get laid. When a young American doctor, Elli Barber, comes to town to open a free clinic for the still suffering townsfolk - only to find herself struggling to convince them that she isn't there to do the dirty work of the 'Kampani' - Animal plunges into a web of intrigues, scams and plots with the unabashed aim of turning events to his own advantage.
Compellingly honest, entertaining and entirely without self-pity, Animal's account lights our way into his dark world with flashes of pure joy - from the ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780141029542
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author:
Mohsin Hamid
Published by:
Penguin Books Ltd
At a cafe table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a stranger. As dusk deepens to dark, he begins the tale that has brought him to this fateful meeting...
Among the brightest and best of his graduating class at Princeton, Changez is snapped up by an elite firm and thrives on New York and the intensity of his work. And his infatuation with fragile Erica promises entree into Manhattan society on the exalted footing his own family once held back in Lahore. For a time, it seems as though nothing will stand in the way of Changez's meteoric rise to personal and professional success: the fulfillment of the immigrant's dream.
But in the wake of September 11, he finds his position in the city he loves suddenly overturned, and his budding relationship with Erica eclipsed by the reawakened ghosts of her past. And Changez's own identity is in seismic shift as well, unearthing allegiances more fundamental than money, power, and ...
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ISBN / ISSN:
9780701183776
Cutting for Stone - out of print
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NZ$ 38.00 each
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Author:
Abraham Verghese
Published by:
Chatto & Windus
This is a masterly debut novel, visceral in its power, heartbreaking in its tenderness. Transporting the reader from the 1940s to the present, from a convent in India to a cargo ship bound for the Yemen, from a tiny operating theatre in Ethiopia to a hospital in the Bronx, "Cutting for Stone" is a thrilling epic of conjoined twins, doctors and patients, temptation and redemption, home and exile - and a riveting family story, irresistibly charged with strange happenings, humour and pathos, that grabs you from its harrowing opening and never lets go. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin sons of a secret union between an Indian nun and a British surgeon at 'Missing' hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the brothers come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be ...
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