Ghosh lopa (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 272.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: New. In English.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 'Consummate, confident and original'--Kavery Nambisan 'A heartbreaking read.'--Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar'A narrative universe of shocking beauty.'--Saikat Majumdar Ten-year-old Narois wakes up to find that her mother is preparing to go to a mysterious place---a place neither too far nor too close. It is a motherless Monday. The first of many. As Narois's father struggles to adapt; as her parents' marriage comes apart; as Narois herself tries to make sense of the goings-on---is her mother having an affair; is she planning to abandon the family forever?---she creeps away into the dark, magical-real Jahanpanah forest to escape. Here, she encounters the Jugnus---legendary healers and weather-workers. Silver Samir, their handsome leader, Mian Pagla who followed the river, Kochi who is bendy when sad, and Velu the gentle murderer mesmerize Narois with their tales; she will do what she can to belong to them.It is a world on the brink, where the mother Narois leans on may be unable to protect her and where betrayal can be love in disguise. Lyrical, precocious and devastatingly tender, Age of Mondays is a story of star-crossed friendships and childhood in a trembling, terrifying era.…

Zustand: New. 2013. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The manipulative-philanthropist ghost of a chairman's mother; a footless enchantress in Siberia who has mastered the art of lovemaking; Rita of the sexual politics lessons; the witchcraft-practising mother of a village prodigy who plots to ensnare the World's Richest Man; the trade union leader who wrung a promise of jeans and perfumed soap out of the factory bosses - these are but the supporting cast of the dystopian, compelling world that Revolt of the Fish Eaters brings alive.Set in a twilight zone of glass towers, elevators and late-stage capitalism, this is a collection of stories about the business world: recession-struck, and facing threats from rogue forces such as ghosts, lovers and communists.…