It took Emily X.R. Pan nearly a decade to write her debut novel The Astonishing Color of After. She’d initially conceived the book as a 40-year exploration of her grandmothers’ coming-of-age in Taiwan, but due to a lack of information about how she grew up, the author reworked her premise — and her genre. “It was […]
The folktales in Pearls on a Branch, oral survivors from a preliterate era, resemble a quilt made with the fabrics of well-loved clothes. Just as patches of cloth in a quilt are arranged in different combinations to form a design, traditional folk motifs appear and reappear in a variety of settings and plots to shape the […]
Reviewed by Sujata Raye Title: The Guru Who Came Down from the Mountain Author: Roshen Dalal Publisher: Speaking Tiger Books Pages: 236 Buy This first novel by Roshen Dalal is ideal to read during a train journey or while waiting for a flight, when a cup of coffee and a racy book with intrigue […]
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My name is Lay Hong from IB Professional Pte Ltd. We are a book distributor in Singapore. We are interested in this book: Ganga Jamuna. We would like to know how can we go about purchasing it and is there any trade discount for book distributor? We are looking at 1 copy.