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First there was woman and other stories by Mariyā Śresa Mitskābena
With reference to Sabar Kāntha District, India.
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With reference to Sabar Kāntha District, India.

"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." So begins the new novel, his first …

The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives …

You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, …

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After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last …

Vivēka Śānabhāga: Ghachar ghochar (2017)
For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting novel about an upwardly mobile family splintered by …

"This book is not about what happened to you as a child; it's about what failed to happen for you …