A list of newly-released books by Siyahi’s authors
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: Biography Publisher: Penguin Random House India The book focuses on the early years of Nobel Laureate, C V Raman and on his creative vision that asserted – Observation of Nature is the Basis of Scientific Inquiry. The author: Uma Parameswaran
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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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Category: Reference Publisher: Sage Publications The book is a fascinating, unusual and path-breaking intervention in current debates on reading and literature by two accomplished and active writers (Tabish Khair and Sebastien Doubinsky) who are also voracious readers and eminent scholars. The two complementary essays – one on literature and the other on reading – focus
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Category: Fiction Publisher: Niyogi Books New York City-based writer, Shaili Kapoor, is shocked to find out that her mother, Meena Kapoor, has drowned herself in Pashan Lake in Pune, India. Apart from her childhood friend Supriya, her mother was the only connection Shaili had with India over the past fifteen years. When Shaili’s father found out about
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Category: Fiction Publisher: Penguin Random House India Maestro management consultant and strategy guru Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese has been dispatched to London to the Lederman account. Things in the mother country are not all tally-ho as Einstein must make do with convoluted remuneration, temperamental digestion and a comely coworker who revels in mixed signals — not
Category: Speculative Fiction Publisher: Picador India Book 1 in The Kaal Trilogy Aushij, Lord of Maya, was tricked into a prison of dreams many millennia ago by his siblings for causing chaos in the cosmos. But his power is so great that he still causes tremors in the world with his deceptions, and needs to
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Category: Fiction Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India In the course of twenty-four hours, nine characters across five cities are faced with a pressing need to examine their past. As each of them confronts the realities within, the world itself explodes into chaos, the disintegration of civic order mirroring the breakdown of individual sanities. A powerful first novel from
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