Author: Eminent Contributors
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 533
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143103547
Description
For some years now, it’s been happy season for books and publishing in India. But the most enduring success story in English-language trade publishing in the country—indeed in all of Asia—began long before this.
These commemorative volumes of the finest writing published in two volumes are dedicated to the finest Indian authors and authors of Indian origin anywhere in the world. Showcased here are authors who have topped best-seller charts in India and abroad, and won virtually every major literary prize including the Nobel Prize, the Jnanpith Award, the Man Booker Prize, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
It is unlikely you will find a richer, more representative collection of writing from or about South Asia. This series of Fiction and Non-Fiction in 5 volumes bring the best in contemporary Indian and international literature to readers everywhere.
Contents
Publisher’s Note xi
Passarola Rising
AZHAR ABIDI 1
Untouchable
MULK RAJ ANAND 9
Bhava
U.R. ANANTHAMURTHY 16
The Night
TEMSULA AO 21
Her Mother
ANJANA APPACHANA 34
The Wall
JEAN ARASANAYAGAM 48
Childhood
ANITA RAU BADAMI 60
The Sari Shop
RUPA BAJWA 68
The Tiger Claw
SHAUNA SINGH BALDWIN 78
The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers
SARNATH BANERJEE 87
Prince of Ayodhya
ASHOK K. BANKER 107
The Miniaturist
KUNAL BASU 113
The Simoqin Prophecies
SAMIT BASU 123
Dust on the Mountain
RUSKIN BOND 126
Tin Fish
SUDEEP CHAKRAVARTI 142
Sacred Games
VIKRAM CHANDRA 152
The Hottest Day of the Year
BRINDA CHARRY 174
The Mammaries of the Welfare State
UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE 179
Rajani
BANKIMCHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAY 193
Parineeta
SARATCHANDRA CHATTOPADHYAY 201
Gainda
ISMAT CHUGHTAI 208
Chasing Edens: One July
NISHA DA CUNHA 219
The Boy Who Fell from the Sky
MAMANG DAI 226
A Fine Family
GURCHARAN DAS 231
The Vengeance
MANOJ DAS 236
Dance Like a Man
MAHESH DATTANI 243
Book of Esther
ESTHER DAVID 255
The House of Blue Mangoes
DAVID DAVIDAR 261
Babyji
ABHA DAWESAR 267
Starry Nights
SHOBHAA DE 275
In Custody
ANITA DESAI 282
The Inheritance of Loss
KIRAN DESAI 291
All About H. Hatterr
G.V. DESANI 301
Moving on
SHASHI DESHPANDE 306
Bomber Virgin
FARRUKH DHONDY 313
Blasphemy
TEHMINA DURRANI 320
The Tiger by the River
RAVI SHANKAR ETTETH 325
The Village by the Sea
SONIA FALEIRO 336
Tara Lane
SHAMA FUTEHALLY 341
Those Days
SUNIL GANGOPADHYAY 351
The Territorial Imperative
NAMITA GOKHALE 359
Sikandar Chowk Park
NEELUM SARAN GOUR 368
Reef
ROMESH GUNESEKERA 377
Moth Smoke
MOHSIN HAMID 397
In Times of Siege
GITHA HARIHARAN 414
A Bowstring Winter
DHRUBA HAZARIKA 423
Sunlight on a Broken Column
ATTIA HOSAIN 431
Abandon
PICO IYER 437
Smell
RADHIKA JHA 446
The Ascetic of Desire
SUDHIR KAKAR 456
Rural Fantasy
KALKI 466
Partitions
KAMLESHWAR 482
Piece of Cake
SWATI KAUSHAL 492
Trespassing
UZMA ASLAM KHAN 503
Bitter Harvest
SAADAT HASAN MANTO 515
Nectar in a Sieve
KAMALA MARKANDAYA 518
Life of a Pi
YANN MARTEL 524