From break-ups to make-ups, from friendship to affection, from infatuation to love, these five beautifully crafted love stories explore a range of complex human behaviours and emotions. Written by bestselling author Sudeep Nagarkar, they will not only warm your heart but also make you believe in love like never before.
Catagory: Literature & Fiction
The Thousand Faces Of Night
What makes a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother? What makes a good Indian woman?
Devi returns to Madras with an American degree, only to be sucked in by the old order of things-a demanding mother’s love, a suitable but hollow marriage, an unsuitable lover who offers a brief escape. But the women of the hoary past come back to claim Devi through myth and story, music and memory. They show her what it is to stay and endure what it is to break free and move on. Sita has been the ideal daughter-in-law, wife and mother. But now that she has arranged a marriage for her daughter she has to come to terms with an old dream of her own. Mayamma knows how to survive as the old family retainer, bending the way the wind blows. But, through Devi, she too can see a different life.
A subtle and tender tale of women’s lives in India, this award-winning novel is structured with the delicacy and precision of a piece of music. Fusing myth, tale and the real voices of different women, The Thousand Faces of Night brings alive the underworld of Indian women’s lives.
Things to Leave Behind
Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award for 2021
‘A personal story of the way that the caste system in India [. . .] imprison[s] the humanity of those within them’-Gloria Steinem
Kumaon, 1856. History has already begun its steady march. Six native women clad in black and scarlet pichauras huddle around Naineetal Lake, attempting to cleanse it of ominous influences. These are the days of Upper Mall Road (for Europeans and their horses) and Lower Mall Road (‘for dogs, servants and other Indians’). Amidst a theatre of British impunity, feisty young Tilottama Dutt, whose uncle is hung when he protests the reigning order, and her daughter, Deoki, confront change as Indians and as women.
Things to Leave Behind brings alive the romance of the mixed legacy of the British-Indian past. Full of the fascinating backstory of Naineetal and its unwilling entry into Indian history, throwing a shining light on the elemental confusion of caste, creed and culture, illuminated with painstaking detail, here is a fascinating historical epic and Namita Gokhale’s most ambitious novel yet.
One Part Woman Box Set
The complete story of Kali and Ponna-and the heartbreaking dilemma that besets them.
In One Part Woman, Kali and Ponna’s desperate hopes for a child converge on a possible solution that puts their marriage-and their love-to the ultimate test.
In the two parallel sequels that follow-both of which pick up the story right where One Part Woman ends-two completely different scenarios play out, exploring unforeseen consequences in the future of this once-happy couple.
What’s Cooking in India?
Monish Gujral’s On the Kebab Trail and On the Dessert Trail are the perfect reads for those who want to travel the world through their palates!
Vijayan Kannampilly’s The Essential Kerala Cookbook is a comprehensive guide to all your favourite Malayali foods.
P. Krishna Dar’s Kashmiri Cooking is a stunningly illustrated edition of a celebrated classic with over a hundred Kashmiri recipes!
Rocky Singh and Mayur Sharma’s Highway on My Plate: The Indian Guide to Roadside Eating is an indispensable companion for all your road trips!
Thrillers to Remember
Black Suits You is a gripping, fast-paced and a clever psycho-sexual thriller that will keep you guessing till the end.
The unwavering calm of the Anantha Padmanabha Swamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram is disturbed when a dead body turns up in its holy pond . . . Read more in In the Name of God.
The Girl Who Knew Too Much is a dark and suspenseful romance mystery, where Akshara is left face-to-face with a truth that will make her doubt not just Harry but herself as well . . .
The Love Connection
Ravinder Singh’s I Too Had a Love Story is for anyone who believes in the magic of love . . .
Durjoy Datta’s Our Impossible Love presents life the way it is and love the way it should be.
See love from a completely different angle with Sudeep Nagarkar’s It Started with a Friend Request.
The Boy You’ve Loved Reading About Box Set
Raghu pretends that there is nothing remarkable about his life even as he hides a dark secret. At the same time, he feels drawn to the fascinating Brahmi-a girl quite like him, yet so different. No matter how hard Raghu tries, he begins to care… Then life throws him into the deep end and he has to face his worst fears. Will love be strong enough to pull him out?
On a fateful night, two years ago, Raghu couldn’t save his first love, Brahmi. Another blow to his heart that he must hide from the world, but the annoying and persistent Advaita just won’t let him be. She wants to love him back to life but she must find out what wrecked him in the first place.
The Women’s Library
Featuring the works of K.R. Meera, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni and Anita Nair, this limited edition set is essential reading for those who love reading fiction from South Asia.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Oleander Girl revolves around seventeen-year-old Korobi Roy who, troubled by the silence that surrounds her parents’ death, clings to her only inheritance from them: the unfinished love note she found hidden in her mother’s book of poetry. But when her grandfather dies, she discovers a dark secret which will finally explain her past.
The bold, wry and ebullient stories of Yellow Is the Colour of Longing put on display K.R. Meera’s astonishing range of narrative techniques, as she expertly lays bare the fault lines behind the façades of everyday life, sometimes with dark humour and sometimes with astoundingly bitter sadness.
Forty-five and single, Akhila has never been allowed to live her life-she is always a daughter, a sister, an aunt and a provider first-until the day she buys a one-way train ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupé unfolds in an intimate atmosphere as Akhila gets to know her five fellow travellers. Riveted by their stories, she seeks an answer to the question that has haunted her all her life: can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete?
The Ghosts of Vasu Master
A moving tale of self-discovery, rich with fascinating stories and imaginary characters
Vasu Master, recently retired from his job in a local school, allows himself to revisit the past and imaginatively discover the nature of teaching, teacher and pupil. This process of self-discovery is speeded up by the arrival of Mani, who cannot-or will not-speak. Vasu Master tells the reticent child one fantastic story after the other as he faces up to the biggest challenge of his life: can he teach (or heal) Mani?
Using fantasy, fable and a host of wonderfully imagined characters, Githa Hariharan creates a richly textured work that eloquently explores the human condition, and the underlying principles of all human action.