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	The To-Let House With the release of The To-Let House, a refreshing new voice in contemporary Indian fiction debuts on the literary scene. The To-Let House captures the pulse of childhood memory unerringly, as it tells the coming of age story of Di, Clemmie, Kulay and Addy. Their quest for identity in the shadows of tormented adults is complicated further by the anxieties of the world around them. New The tale unfolds in the city of Shillong, in the north east – one of India’s most troubled areas. As the four children emerge into adolescence, framed by the region’s violent search for identity, their inner and outer worlds hold uncanny mirrors to each other. Daisy Hasan conjures up a world that is darkly unsettling, yet curiously effervescent. Price: $ 10.95 Sale Price: $ 7.67 / Rs 275.00 More Details \|
	Apon Katha: My Story Abanindranath Tagore recalls his childhood and ancestral home with meticulous detail and gentle affection. Apon Katha captures the world of colonial Bengal during the last decades of the nineteenth century through the recollections of the author. Abanindranath Tagore, who is said to 'write pictures', paints moods, thoughts and scenes of a bygone era, recalling his childhood and ancestral home with meticulous detail and gentle affection. Excerpt These are all I remember of the first part of my life: tumbling into daylight from the cocoon of my blanket, hiding beneath it once more, at night the milk bowl, the jhinuk, the safe, the oil lamp, Padma dasi, the ghost-like figures in the darkness of the night. And from the day, I remembered sounds that would make one start—a slammed door, the jhinjhin of a bunch of keys. But for these, there is nothing, no one at all in my memory. Beginning from the day of Janmashtami, 1871, eleven minutes past 12 to a few years into life, my senses knew and held onto these few, ordinary things. Apart from eating and sleeping, I did nothing. Then, suddenly one day I encountered an event, absolutely alone. REVIEWS Chatterjee’s English conveys the fineness and whimsicality of Abanindranth’s Bengali, making this delightful, but elegiac little book an important literary work and historical document. - The Telegraph This autobiography, about the author’s growing years in the creative hothouse that the Tagore house was, is very compellingly written. With his artist’s eye for detail, each incident is vividly recreated. - The Hindu Non-Fiction/ Memoir Paperback • 197 x 127mm 104 pages All rights available £5.99 / $8.95 / Rs.150 Price: $ 8.95 Sale Price: $ 6.27 / Rs 150.00 More Details \|
	Soul Force: Gandhi This book historicizes Gandhi’s earnest and provocative writings, showing his ideas maturing over time into a unique model of public action. M.K. Gandhi Edited by V. Geetha Mahatma Gandhi led a lifelong search for social peace and political non-violence. Committed to dialogue across classes, cultures and faiths, his life and politics stand testimony to a remarkable civic life, which valued restraint, tolerance and transparency above all else. This book historicizes his earnest and provocative writings – on the bomb, Zionism and Palestine, the partition of India – showing his ideas maturing over time into a unique model of public action. REVIEWS V. Geetha guides the reader through the dense complexity of this remarkable undertaking in a lucid fashion… She offers the reader not only the life from which Gandhi’s ideas arose, but also a concise social and political history of the period. - The New Sunday Express Gandhi needs to be interpreted periodically in the light of newly emerging concerns and the attending questions they raise. He needs to be introduced in a language the young scholars will understand. Geetha does this effectively. Soul Force will generate a new interest in the ideas of Gandhi. Amidst the massive quantity of Gandhiana available, she succeeds in making an impact. - The Hindu Literary Review Political Science / History Paperback • 197 x 127mm 464 pages All rights available £8.99 / $11.95 / Rs.300 Price: $ 11.95 Sale Price: $ 8.37 / Rs 210.00 More Details \| Not in Stock
	Seasons of the Palm Vivid in its re-creation of a harsh yet haunting landscape, Seasons of the Palm is a relentless and compelling novel. Perumal Murugan, Translated from the Tamil by V. Geetha Seasons of the Palm tells the story of Shortie, a young 'dalit' (so-called 'untouchable') farmworker and his painful growth into self-knowledge. In bondage to his landlord, Shortie’s life is one of hard physical labour and cruel persecution. But Shortie also inhabits another world. Happiest when out with his flocks, he is intimate with the palm-dotted pasture land and the forests that circle it. Caught between an oppressive working life and a rich, layered dream world, Shortie struggles with himself in an effort to escape his circumstances. Vivid in its re-creation of a harsh, yet haunting landscape, Seasons of the Palm is a relentless and compelling novel. Shortlisted for Kiryama Prize, 2005 Fiction/Translation Softcover 180 pages £ 6.99 / $ 11.95 / Rs.295 Price: $ 11.95 Sale Price: $ 8.37 / Rs 295.00 More Details \| Not in Stock Award
	Current Show Written in a spare, swift style that mimics the rapid images and cuts of cinema, Current Show leads into the murky twilight world of the dispossessed. Perumal Murugan, Translated from the Tamil by V. Geetha Set in a small highway town in South India, Current Show reveals moments in the life of Sathi, a young soda-seller in a run-down theater. Sathi's grim and dreamy life is clocked by show time. The tedium of his ill-paid work is offset by his friends, young men who work around the theater, fighting, playing, bullying, yet supporting each other. An intense and tender friendship with one of the men sustains Sathi, until a train of events cast the meagre certainties of his everyday into disarray.Written in a spare, swift style that mimics the rapid images and cuts of cinema, Current Show leads into the murky twilight world of the dispossessed. Fiction/Translation Softcover 160 pages £ 5.99 / $ 9.95 / Rs.195 Price: $ 9.95 Sale Price: $ 6.97 / Rs 195.00 More Details \|