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Fasting, Feasting
Uma, the plain spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, unlike her ambitious younger sister …
Words are Stones
Over the course of a number of years, Italian writer Carlo Levi made three separate journeys to Sicily. He went on to chronicle his travels, penning a number of short essays and …
Baumgartner's Bombay
Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era is a story of the profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY follows Hugo Baumgartner as he leaves behind Nazi …
Clear Light of Day
The classic novel by the author of Diamond Dust evokes the traumatic history of India after the departure of the British in a story of a Hindu family in Old Delhi and the complex …
At the End of the Century
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "To read Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is to regard the human heart through a magnifying glass." --Claire Luchette, O, The Oprah Magazine …
Zigzag Way
A young historian traveling to Mexico for the first time, Eric becomes involved in a curious quest to uncover the mysteries of his own family in an old mining town, where he …
Diamond Dust
Gathering together radiant new stories, DIAMOND DUST bears Desai's trademark insight, depth, and tenderness. The tales here travel from India to the American Northeast, deftly …
The Artist of Disappearance
Finalist for the Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction "The excellent strength the novellas] share is a gracefulness and dreamlike sonority, reminiscent of writers like Jhumpa Lahiri and …
Arctic Summer
A powerful exploration of the clash between two opposing worlds, Forster's Arctic Summer posits the instinctive bravery of the traditional hero alongside the tolerance of the …
Daughters of the Vicar
A bleak, unrelenting tale of poverty and loss, Lawrence's Daughters of the Vicar chillingly examines man's increasing inability to love and be loved. Looking for acceptance from …