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Author | : Shashi Tharoor |
Publisher | : Arcade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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In the duet "The Village Girl" and "City Girl" the author provides an experiment in perspective: the twin stories begin exactly the same except for the gender of the protagonist and then evolve in a radically different way. Together, the fifteen stories gathered here show a major writer in the making.
Author | : Shashi Tharoor |
Publisher | : Penguin Books India |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140282481 |
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Early Stories From The Award-Winning Author Of The Great Indian Novel The Five-Dollar Smile Is A Collection Of Stories Of Young Love And Disaffection, Adolescent High Spirits And Youthful Traumas; There Are Also Stories, Written With The Energy And Passion Of Youth, Which Deal With Very Adult Subjects: Death, Dishonour, Deceit, Loss, Hypocrisy, Family, Honour, The Exacting Price Of Success And The Astonishing Power Of Compassion And Love. Sensitive, Compelling And Persuasive, These Stories, Written For The Most Part In Shashi Tharoor S Late Teens And Early Twenties, Reveal An Already Formidable Talent. Rounding Off The Collection Is A Marvellously Inventive Play Set In The Time Of Mrs Gandhi S Emergency. The Five-Dollar Smile Confirms The Praise Lavished On Shashi Tharoor All Over The World For His Writing.
Author | : Wen Zhu |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0231136943 |
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In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. A frank reflection of the seamier side of his nation's increasingly capitalist society, Zhu Wen's fiction offers an audaciously plainspoken account of the often hedonistic individualism that is feverishly taking root. Set against the mundane landscapes of contemporary China-a worn Yangtze River vessel, cheap diners, a failing factory, a for-profit hospital operating by dated socialist norms-Zhu Wen's stories zoom in on the often tragicomic minutiae of everyday life in this fast-changing country. With subjects ranging from provincial mafiosi to nightmarish families and oppressed factory workers, his claustrophobic narratives depict a spiritually bankrupt society, periodically rocked by spasms of uncontrolled violence. For example, I Love Dollars, a story about casual sex in a provincial city whose caustic portrayal of numb disillusionment and cynicism, caused an immediate sensation in the Chinese literary establishment when it was first published. The novella's loose, colloquial voice and sharp focus on the indignity and iniquity of a society trapped between communism and capitalism showcase Zhu Wen's exceptional ability to make literary sense of the bizarre, ideologically confused amalgam that is contemporary China. Julia Lovell's fluent translation deftly reproduces Zhu Wen's wry sense of humor and powerful command of detail and atmosphere. The first book-length publication of Zhu Wen's fiction in English, I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China offers readers access to a trailblazing author and marks a major contribution to Chinese literature in English.
Author | : Shashi Tharoor |
Publisher | : Penguin Books India |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9780140154641 |
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Author | : Richard Stevenson |
Publisher | : ManLove Romance Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1608200132 |
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Gary Griswold goes missing, and his ex-wife wants to know what's happened to him and his $38 million in cash. Religious dilettante Gary and his money have disappeared into Thailand. Gay P.I. Don Strachey is out of his element, and his lover Timmy is way out of his comfort zone as they comb the Land of Smiles for a man with an unerring weakness for the poorest choice possible.
Author | : Shashi Tharoor |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2014-12-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1628725044 |
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This touching and funny collection of stories showcases Tharoor’s daunting literary acumen, as well as the keen sensitivity that informs his ability to write profoundly and entertainingly on themes ranging from family conflict to death. In the title story—written in a lonely hotel room in Geneva soon after the author began his work with the United Nations—a young Indian orphan is on his way to visit America for the first time, and his anguish and longing in the airplane seem hardly different from those of any American child. Tharoor’s admiration for P. G. Wodehouse makes “How Bobby Chatterjee Turned to Drink” a delightful homage, while “The Temple Thief,” “The Simple Man,” and “The Political Murder” bring to mind O. Henry and Maupassant. His three college stories, “Friends,” “The Pyre,” and “The Professor’s Daughter,” are full of youthful high jinks, naïve infatuations, and ingenious wordplay. “The Solitude of the Short-Story Writer” is a smart, self-aware, Woody Allen-esque exploration of a writer’s conflicted relationship with his psychiatrist.
Author | : Ron Rash |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2007-04-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1466828064 |
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Chemistry and Other Stories, A Picador Paperback Original From the pre-eminent chronicler of this forgotten territory, stories that range over one hundred years in the troubled, violent emergence of the New South. In Ron Rash's stories, spanning the entire twentieth century in Appalachia, rural communities struggle with the arrival of a new era. Three old men stalk the shadow of a giant fish no one else believes is there. A man takes up scuba diving in the town reservoir to fight off a killing depression. A grieving mother leads a surveyor into the woods to name once and for all the county where her son was murdered by thieves. In the Appalachia of Ron Rash's stories, the collision of the old and new south, of antique and modern, resonate with the depth and power of ancient myths.
Author | : Shashi Tharoor |
Publisher | : Skyhorse |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2011-12-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1628722509 |
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Who killed twenty-four-year-old Priscilla Hart? This highly motivated, idealistic American student had come to India to volunteer in women’s health programs, but had her work made a killer out of an enraged husband? Or was her death the result of a xenophobic attack? Had an indiscriminate love affair spun out of control? Had a disgruntled, deeply jealous colleague been pushed to the edge? Or was she simply the innocent victim of a riot that had exploded in that fateful year of 1989 between Hindus and Muslims? Experimenting masterfully with narrative form in this brilliant tour de force, internationally acclaimed novelist Shashi Tharoor chronicles the mystery of Priscilla Hart’s death through the often contradictory accounts of a dozen or more characters, all of whom relate their own versions of the events surrounding her killing. Like his two previous novels, Riot probes and reveals the richness of India, and is at once about love, hate, cultural collision, the ownership of history, religious fanaticism, and the impossibility of knowing the truth.
Author | : Ken Liu |
Publisher | : Gallery / Saga Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2020-02-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1982134038 |
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From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his science fiction and fantasy stories from the last five years—sixteen of his best—plus a new novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, The Veiled Throne.
Author | : Shashi Tharoor |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2011-09-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1628721596 |
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In this award-winning novel, Tharoor has masterfully recast the two-thousand-year-old epic, The Mahabharata, with fictional but highly recognizable events and characters from twentieth-century Indian politics. Nothing is sacred in this deliciously irreverent, witty, and deeply intelligent retelling of modern Indian history and the ancient Indian epic The Mahabharata. Alternately outrageous and instructive, hilarious and moving, it is a dazzling tapestry of prose and verse that satirically, but also poignantly, chronicles the struggle for Indian freedom and independence.