June 2011

Category: Literary Fiction Publisher (India): HarperCollins Publishers India Publisher (UK): Constable and Robinson Publisher (USA): Interlink Books How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men – the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator – whose trajectories cross in Denmark. When a …

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Category: Short Stories Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Rights: World rights available (excluding Indian subcontinent) Time is arguably our biggest enemy. And memory, perhaps, our greatest curse. Which makes forgetting the hardest thing to do. These are stories of difficult pasts, and the struggle to leave them behind. Identical-twin rickshaw drivers are wrongly suspected of terrorism …

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Category: Parenting Publisher: Amaryllis Books “Are you still working?” “Can you do yoga?” “Is the baby kicking yet?” “Why aren’t you drinking?” Lalita Iyer spent her pregnancy fielding millions of such questions, listening to thoroughly useless bits of advice and untruths, feeling utterly nauseated by manicured baby books that featured pristine mothers with hair, make-up …

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Category: Fiction Publisher: Rupa Publications India Set in contemporary India and in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, When Loss Is Gain, is a powerful story dealing with life and death, loss and gain, happiness and fulfillment, the physical and the spiritual, the rational and the inexplicable, and the perennial dialogue between dukkha or sorrow, the key …

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Category: Textile Traditions Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India Bhanu Athaiya is the revered doyenne of Indian costume designers…For the benefit of future generations of filmmakers, film lovers and designers, it is important to document the landmark work done by someone with such knowledge, vision and passion. To beloved Bhanu I send my heartfelt congratulations on this splendid book. …

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Category: Steampunk Publisher (India): Silverfish (Westland Imprint) Published in the US by Medallion Press Ernst’s world is one of endless admirers, including foreign dignitaries and heads of state. Hailed as a marvel of late nineteenth-century automation, he is the crowning achievement of his master, Karl Gruber. A world-famous builder of automated clocks, Gruber has reached the pinnacle …

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Category: Poetry Publishing: HarperCollins Publishers India Man of Glass is the first collection of poems by Tabish Khair in a decade, following the critically acclaimed Where Parallel Lines Meet (2000). In the three sections of this new collection, Khair draws upon three writers from across centuries, cultures, literary genres and languages: Kalidasa and his fifth-century Sanskrit play …

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Category: Literary Fiction Publisher (Indian Subcontinent): HarperCollins Publishers India Publisher (France): Les Éditions du Sonneur Publisher (Italy): Nova Delphi Libri Publisher (USA): Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publisher E-book (World excluding Indian Subcontinent): Constable & Robinson   Amir Ali leaves his village in Bihar to travel to London with an English captain, William Meadows, to whom he narrates the story of his …

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