Sneha Mathan
India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic hunting accident. The state is now ruled...
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Winner of the 2019 JCB Prize for Literature
Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize–winner Madhuri Vijay’s...
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Set in war-torn Kabul, a harrowing yet tender novel—Bend It Like Beckham in a burka—about one woman's courage and guile in the face of terror and tyranny
Rukhsana is a spirited young journalist who works for the Kabul Daily in Afghanistan. She takes care of her ill, widowed mother and her younger brother, Jahan. When Rukhsana is suddenly summoned to appear at the infamous Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention
...From the author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell comes an unforgettable story of terror, survival, perseverance, and hope that chronicles one extraordinarily brave Afghan woman's odyssey to save her family and find asylum in the West—a tale of a daring escape, a perilous trek across Europe, and the courage and tenacity of one defiant woman.
Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's
..."Divakaruni tells the story of India's independence through the eyes of three sisters, each of whom is uniquely different, with her own desires and flaws. I cheered for them and cried with them as they move through the history of their country that is at once devastating, inspiring, and triumphant. You will, too."— Lisa See, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Set during the partition of British India in 1947,
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