Indian Literature

In this moving middle-grade novel drawing upon Umpqua author Charlene Willing McManis's own tribal history, Regina must find out: Who is Regina Petit? Is she Indian? Is she American? And will she and her family ever be okay?

Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right?

ഇതിലെ നോവലെറ്റുകള്‍; ഒരു കഥയുടെ വിവിധ സാധ്യതകളിലേക്കാ ണിവ നീളുന്നതെന്ന് ഞാനറിയുന്നു. കാമം, മോഹം, ദുര, ലജ്ജാകരവും വന്യവുമായ നെട്ടോട്ടങ്ങള്‍, അവയ്ക്കുള്ളിലെ കാഴ്ചകള്‍. അതില്‍ തൊട്ടു നിന്ന് നമുക്കിടയിലെ പനിച്ചൂടിനെപ്പറ്റി വേവലാതിയോടെ ചില കാര്യങ്ങള്‍. ഒരേ സമ്പ്രദായങ്ങളും നിലനില്പിനുള്ള കാട്ടായങ്ങളുമാണ് ഇതിലെ മനുഷ്യര്‍ക്കെ ല്ലാം. അപ്പോള്‍ സാദൃശ്യം വരിക സ്വാഭാവികം.

Kisah tentang pendakian delapan anak muda—lima laki-laki dan tiga perempuan—ke Gunung Argopuro yang adalah gunung dengan trek pendakian terpanjang di Pulau Jawa. Petualangan mereka digambarkan sangat detail dari tempat ke tempat dalam rute pendakian tersebut.

After her parents moved her and her brother to America, Preeti Desai never meant to tear her family apart. All she did was fall in love with a white Christian carnivore instead of a conventional Indian boy. Years later, with her parents not speaking to her and her controversial relationship in tatters, all Preeti has left is her career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. But when Preeti receives word of a terrible accident in the city where she was born, she returns to India, where she’ll have to face her estranged parents...and the complicated past they left behind.

In this sequel to Harrison's True North, Donald Burkett, a middle-aged Chippewa-Finnish man, is dying of Lou Gehrig's disease. While his wife, Cynthia, transcribes, Donald begins dictating his family history for the benefit of their children, stories that he never before has shared. As old crimes, dreams, wounds, and sacred moments are revived for the members of Donald's family, each is affected in different and profound ways.

One night, Elango has a dream that consumes him, driving him to give it shape. The potter is determined to create a terracotta horse whose beauty will be reason enough for its existence. Yet he cannot pin down from where it has galloped into his mind. The Mahabharata? The Trojan horse legend? His anonymous potter-ancestors? Once it’s finished, he does not know where his creation will belong. In a temple compound? Gracing a hotel lobby? Or should he gift it to Zohra, the woman he loves, yet despairs of ever marrying.

Carrying a single suitcase, Kailash arrives in post-Reagan America from India to attend graduate school. As he begins to settle into American existence, Kailash comes under the indelible influence of a charismatic professor and also finds his life reshaped by a series of very different women with whom he recklessly falls in and out of love.

In the 1950s, Vishnu Bhushan is a young boy yet to learn the truth beyond the rumors of his family's fractured histories - an alliance, as his mother says, of two bankrupt families. In evocative chapters, the first two decades of Vishnu's life in Mauritius unfolds with heart wrenching closeness as he battles to experience the world beyond, and the cultural, political, and familial turmoil that hold on to him.

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. In the arc of one year, an unnamed narrator in an unnamed city, in the middle of her life’s journey, realizes that she’s lost her way. The city she calls home acts as a companion and interlocutor: traversing the streets around her house, and in parks, piazzas, museums, stores, and coffee bars, she feels less alone.

Ayesha Shetty lost her brother seven years ago, the same time she lost everything else important to her: her dreams, her fierce independence, and the man she loved. Not wanting to see her mother hurt anymore, she put her wild self away and became the dutiful daughter her mother needed and took on her brother’s role in the family business. Now her best friend’s big, fat Indian wedding is a chance to get away from her endless duties at the restaurant and maybe even have some fun (if she remembers how).

Where is the answer? It is in the heart. All these short stories are about where the emotions search to find a home where they can thrive. The code of the West and the belief in a higher power guides the emotions. There is a true path to follow when these beliefs are put into practice. These stories show just that.

With depth, heart, and agility, debut novelist Mira Jacob takes us on a deftly plotted journey that ranges from 1970s India to suburban 1980s New Mexico to Seattle during the dot.com boom. The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing is an epic, irreverent testimony to the bonds of love, the pull of hope, and the power of making peace with life’s uncertainties.

സ്വന്തം മണ്ണില്‍ വേരുറപ്പിച്ചുനിന്ന് ദേശത്തേക്കും ലോകത്തേക്കും ശാഖകള്‍ പടര്‍ത്തുന്ന ഒരു വലിയ അനുഭവലോകമാണ്‌ രാജ് നായരുടെ 'കടലാസ്സുപക്കികള്‍' സഹൃദയര്‍ക്കു മുന്‍പില്‍ തുറന്നിടുന്നത്

Richly textured, compassionate, and at times hilarious, Cowboys and East Indians traces a journey from India to Wyoming and back again, introducing us along the way to characters who seem not quite to fit the circumstances in which they find themselves, but who nevertheless search for belonging—through unexpected common ground with their human neighbors or the abiding, if isolating, openness of the vast landscape of the West.

Millie Two Bears lives alone in a trailer in the heart of the Blackfeet Nation in Montana. Since her husband went to jail, she’s been on the outs with the reservation. And it’s not just people she has to contend with. Now the prairie dogs are moving in on her patch of land. When a strange woman comes into Millie’s life, and Millie’s rodent war escalates, a fateful confrontation with vengeance, secrets, and survival is just underfoot.

കണ്ണാടി, പങ്കലാക്ഷിയുടെ ഡയറി, രണ്ടമ്മയും ഒരു മകനും, ദേവിന്റെ മൂന്ന് പ്രശസ്ത നോവലുകളുടെ സമാഹാരം. ജാതീയമായ ഉച്ചനീചത്വങ്ങളും വര്‍ഗ്ഗീയതയുടെ ഭീകരദൃശ്യങ്ങളും നിറഞ്ഞ 'കണ്ണാടി'. വീട്ടുവേലക്കാരിയായ പങ്കലാക്ഷിയുടെ ജീവിതാനുഭവങ്ങള്‍ ഡയറിത്താളുകളിലൂടെ സത്യസന്ധമായി ആവിഷ്‌കരിക്കുന്ന 'പങ്കലാക്ഷിയുടെ ഡയറി'.

മനുഷ്യമനസ്സിന്റെ അന്തർഭാവ ത്തെയും ആദിരൂപത്തെയും ആവാ ഹിക്കുന്ന ഏഴാം പക്കം, മനുഷ്യത്വം മരവിച്ചുപോയ സമൂഹത്തിൽ ജീവി ക്കാൻ വിധിക്കപ്പെട്ട ഒരു ചെറുക ക്കാരന്റെ കഥ പറയുന്ന കിരാതം, മനുഷ്യജീവിതത്തിന്റെ അർത്ഥ രാഹിത്യത്തെ ആവിഷ്കരിക്കുന്ന താളിയോല, മനുഷ്യന്റെ കടിഞ്ഞാ ണില്ലാത്ത ആസക്തിയുടെയും വികൃതമായ ദൗർബല്യങ്ങളുടെയും കഥയുന്ന ഞങ്ങൾ അടികൾ എന്നീ നാലു നോവെല്ലുകളുടെ സമാഹാരം.

Warrior-prince Rama is about to be crowned Young King, when he hears the devastating news that his father, king of Ayodhya, has been tricked into banishing him to the forest. His devoted wife, Sita, insists on accompanying him in exile, but the evil 10-headed Lord Ravana has fallen deeply in love with the beautiful princess and steals her away. Aided by Hanuman, mighty captain of the monkeys, Rama sets out across the world to find her and destroy Ravana in a deadly battle.

Though forced to fight for the hated British, Morgan MacKinnon would no more betray the men he leads than slit his own throat - not even when he was captured by the French and threatened with an agonizing death by fire at the hands of their Abenaki allies. Only the look of innocent longing in the eyes of a convent-bred French lass could make him question his vow to escape and return to the Rangers. And soon the sweet passion he awoke in Amalie had him cursing the war that forced him to choose between upholding his honor and pledging himself to the woman he loves.