स्टेनबेक ने अपनी इस पुस्तक में गरीब किसानों और साधारण वर्गों का बड़ी सहृदयता से चित्रण किया है। आँचलिकता स्टेनबेक के इस उपन्यास की दूसरी विशेषता है। विषयवस्तु और शैली की दृष्टि से भी यह अपने समकालीनों से कहीं सशक्त रचना है। स्टेनबेक को जनसाधारण की क्षमता में बेहद विश्वास है, जो इस पुस्तक को पढ़ने से पता चलता है।
‘ऊँचे पर्वत’ (दी रेड पोनी) में कैलिफोर्निया के पर्वतीय प्रदेश के किसानों के जीवन, उनकी आकांक्षाओं और उमंगों का शक्तिशाली चित्रण किया गया है। अमेरिकन उपन्यासकारों में जॉन स्टेनबेक का स्थान बहुत ऊँचा है। उसके इस उपन्यास को पाठकों और आलोचकों ने बेहद सराहा है।
Catagory: Literature & Fiction
Pagal/पागल
नोबल पुरस्कार विजेता लेखक अर्नेस्ट हेमिंग्वे की कहानियों में उनके घुमक्कड़ और खोजी जीवन के अत्यंत सजीव चित्र प्राप्त होते हैं। इनमें मनुष्य-जीवन का जो पहलू खींचा गया है वह अन्य किसी की कहानियों में नहीं मिलता। इसीलिए वे सारे संसार में समादृत हुई हैं और बड़े चाव से पढ़ी जाती हैं। यहाँ उनकी चुनी हुई कहानियों के अनुवाद किए गए हैं। वे निश्चय ही पाठकों का मन मोह लेंगे।
अनुवादक हैं सर्वश्री वीरेन्द्रकुमार गुप्त और रमेश वर्मा।
True Story of a Writer, a Philosopher and a Shape-shifter
Is it possible to possess a portable, lightweight (say 400 grams), user-friendly soul with a twenty-four-hour battery life?
WELCOME TO LORD SPIDER’S WORLD OF MARVELOUS LIES
Lord Spider, celebrated author of popular fiction; J.L. Pillai, eminent executioner and voyeur; Rosi, Spider’s wife and freelance philosopher. When they get together to write an essay on ‘Compassion’ for the revolutionary party, the art of lying reaches its outrageous zenith. So does story-telling.
Spider’s world is a novel in brilliant, irresistible free fall.
Rising Sons
In pre-independent India, in the small village of Kesarugattu somewhere in Karnataka, Devaraya, a Brahmin, goes about further ossifying his status. This little hamlet, like every other, follows the said and unsaid rules of caste and religion. Inter-caste marriages are frowned upon. Brahmin and other wealthy upper caste men set the rules. The Ai tribes live far away from the village, in the forest. As societal divisions and unlikely friendships play out in the everyday life of the village, a secret from Devaraya’s past comes to haunt him and his family. The repercussions are huge for both Devaraya, his wife Gowru and his two sons Nanju and Anna.
Even as battle lines are drawn in the village and undeclared allies offer support, this fresh trouble claims one of his two sons. That’s not all – meanwhile, the Independence movement that infects the little hamlet sweeps away his other son in its fever. What is to become of the dreams Devaraya had for his sons?
Rising Sons, a novel in four parts, tells the delicate story of the relationship between fathers and sons, between husbands and wives, between family and society; of the fate of a small village that is tied to the making of a great nation; of the hope and promise of the young against the disappointments of the past; of the hows and whys of political life.
Blackened
The Adhikarathil family had a distinguished history. It prospered both in terms of wealth and eminence, acquiring the status of royalty in Malabar, Kerala, until the birth of a child named Eranimos shocked everyone. Unlike his fair-skinned, Christian forebears, Eranimos was born dark-skinned, leading to controversial conjectures about his lineage.
Blackened tells the story of its protagonist’s quest to discover the truth behind his dark skin and caste identity. But weaved into this personal tale are multiple layers of Kerala’s social and political histories—its caste conflicts, its massive waves of conversion and migration, its clashing belief systems, and its rural and urban divide.
Originally published as Karikkottakkary in Malayalam, Blackened is an impactful bildungsroman that covers the arc of a conflicted life, and shows us how family histories are tied into the larger historical currents that form communities and shape destinies.
The Owl, the River, the Valley
In Arupa Patangia Kalita’s stories, contemporary women in Assam take centerstage. The deeply lyrical and empathetic stories talk about issues like surrogacy, migration, living in a colonial legacy, employment, and history—all of which affect women in the region today.
In Mitra Phukan’s nuanced translation, the region and its people come alive. A deeply compelling and satisfying collection for lovers of contemporary fiction, The Owl, the River, the Valley is a deeply compelling journey into Assam.
Tales from Qabristan
In a small backwater village in Kerala, Farook prepares to bury his father in the qabristan behind the mosque. As the rituals proceed, he is filled with memories of his growing years. Memories of the village, of secret lives, sexual proclivities, superstitions—and above all, the slow decaying of his family.
Tales from Qabristan is a strikingly vivid portrayal of a boy trying to understand the world through the eyes of the adults around him, as he navigates failure, love, life and death. Its language often slipping into magical realism, traversing the realms of both fantasy and reality, the novel reminds us that children are capable of discerning extremely complex realities even if they cannot fully understand them.
The Girl on Fire
Three bodies found in Kullu,
shot and burnt to a crisp.
Two promising clues.
A missing nurse at the centre of this mystery.
Is she a clear suspect . . . or is there more than meets the eye?
Coming off a fresh suspension, IPS Simone Singh is thrown head first into a bizarre case of serial murders—a killer who is targeting doctors at the Regional Hospital in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh. She soon realizes that solving this case is not going to be as easy as she thought, as lying doctors, missing evidence and contradictory eyewitnesses work hard to muddle her case.
Nurse Aadya is on the run. She is running from what she once believed was her salvation, all to protect her baby. Everywhere she turns, she is surrounded by enemies, and Aadya finds herself entrapped in a noose that steadily grows tighter around her neck. It’s only a matter of time before Simone Singh catches up with her.
Can Aadya prove her innocence in time? More importantly, can Simone catch the killer before someone else dies?
Izmirli, My Last Love
The last love, is like the last hanging threads of hope; at times dearer than life. Can it ever be forgotten?
Eylül, a young lawyer, within the turn of a night moved to Istanbul from Germany, after her mother’s sudden drowning. Her beautiful mother left behind a prestigious law firm; and a daunting legacy.
As life pulls Eylül in tethers, the demands of the law firm highlight her unpreparedness, but she can only obsess over her mother’s unconvincing drowning thanks to an old letter which seems to belong to her mother.
What begins is a complex odyssey as she chases after an Izmirli with one thought: did Izmirli cause her mother’s death?
As Eylül delves deeper into the mysteries of her mother’s past and her love life, it becomes unclear, what is Izmirli? Is her mother’s past and Eylül’s present one of the same, has memory and reality merged into one. Each discovery reveals a bigger and darker hole in a seemingly endless tunnel.
Izmirli is a compelling psychological thriller and romance, and a gripping narrative of personal discovery but also an exploration of the complexities of human relationships.
- Highly gripping psychological thriller
- An engaging read with unpredictable twists and turns
- An intense drama transporting away from reality
- Perfect for reads who enjoy books like The Gone Girl and The Silent Patient
- Perfect read for the weekend nights and a reading group
Feluda in the Golden Fortress
Feluda in the Golden Fortress opens a window to Satyajit Ray’s detective novel called Sonar Kella. First published in 1971 in Bengali, this book was also adapted to screen and was the first film adaptation of Ray’s famous ‘private investigator’ Feluda, which he not only directed but also wrote its screenplay and composed music for it. In the book, Mukul, a young boy, is persistently haunted by incidents from his birth. When his father takes him to a renowned parapsychologist Dr. Hemanga Hazra. H e studies the boy’s drawings and believes the sketches depict the Indian Province of Rajasthan. He also suggests taking the boy there.
Meanwhile, a group of brigands get to know about this boy and believe that he could lead them to a treasure that they have been hunting for a long time. They kidnap Mukul and now, Feluda along within assistant Topse must bring back the boy and solve the mystery. They are joined on road by Lalmohan Ganguly, a pulp writer who goes by the non de plume, Jatayu.
Celebrating 50 years Sonar Kella, the most popular film by Satyajit Ray based on the adventures of detective Feluda, this book opens a window to previously unseen works of Ray from his journal. With rare photographs, interviews and film stills, Feluda in The Golden Fortress is your ultimate Feluda book.