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1995., Anchor Books Call No: Fic Div Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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c2007., HarperSanFrancisco Call No: Fic Cho Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A tale of how Siddhartha, the young Indian prince, came to be the enlightened one, the Buddha.
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c2015., General, Mira Books Call No: Fic Pat Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 1870s India. In a tiny village where society is ruled by a caste system and women are defined solely by marriage, young Biren Roy dreams of forging a new destiny. When his mother suffers the fate of widowhood--shunned by her loved ones and forced to live in solitary penance--Biren devotes his life to effecting change. Just when his vision for the future begins to look hopeless, he meets Maya, the independent-minded daughter of a local educator, and his soul is reignited.
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c2014., Adult, Tinder Press/Headline Publishing Group Call No: Fic Far Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A compelling story of discipline and disobedience, punishment and the pursuit of passion. Leaving home is one thing. Surviving is another. 1940s Lahore, the Punjab. Two brothers and their two younger sisters are brought up to be "good children," who do what they're told. Beaten and browbeaten by their manipulative mother, to study, honour and obey. Sully, damaged and brilliant, Jakie, irreverent and passionate. Cynical Mae and soft-hearted Lana, outshone and too easily dismissed. The boys escape their repressive home to study medicine abroad, abandoning their sisters to their mother and marriages.
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c2009., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic Cha Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Bombay in the 1980s: Shyam Lal is a highly regarded voice teacher, trained by his father in the classical idiom but happily engaged in teaching the more popular songs to well-to-do women, whose modern way of life he covets. Sixteen-year-old Nirmalya Sengupta is the romantically rebellious scion of an affluent family who wants only to study Indian classical music. With a little push from Nirmalys mother, Shyam agrees to accept Nirmalya as his student, entering into a relationship that will have unexpected and lasting consequences in both their lives. As the novel unfolds, we see how their two families come to challenge and change each other, and how student and teacher slowly mesh their differing visions of the world, and what place music holds in it."--Inside front jacket.
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-- Independence :2023., William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: NEW Fic Div Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: India, 1947. In a village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor. Priya: intelligent and idealistic, resolved to follow in her father's footsteps and become a doctor though society frowns on it. Deepa: the beauty, determined to make a marriage that will bring her family joy and status. Jamini: devout, sharp-eyed, and a talented quiltmaker, with deeper passions than she reveals. Theirs is a home of love and safety, a refuge from the violent events taking shape in the nation. Then their father is killed during a riot, and even their neighbors turn against them, bringing the events of their country closer to home. When the partition of India is officially decided, a drastic--and dangerous--change is in the air. India is now for Hindus, Pakistan for Muslims. The sisters find themselves separated from one another, each on a different path.
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c2012., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Bal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Novel follows the lives of two women who must deal with the relentless logic forced upon them by survival: Damini, a Hindu midwife, and Anu, who flees an abusive marriage for the sanctuary of the Catholic church. When Sister Anu comes to Damini's home village to open a clinic, their paths cross, and each are certain they are doing what's best for women. What do health, justice, education and equality mean for women when India is marching toward prosperity, growth and becoming a nuclear power? If the baby girls and women around them are to survive, Damini and Anu must find creative ways to break with tradition and help this community change from within.
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c2013., Gallery Books Call No: Fic Mas Edition: 1st Gallery Books trade paperback ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1930, a great ocean wave blots out a Bengali village, leaving only one survivor, a young girl. As a maidservant in a British boarding school, Pom is renamed Sarah and discovers her gift for languages. Her private dreams almost die when she arrives in Kharagpur and is recruited into a secretive, decadent world. Eventually, she lands in Calcutta, renames herself Kamala, and creates a new life rich in books and friends. But although success and even love seem within reach, she remains trapped by what she is . . . and is not. As India struggles to throw off imperial rule, Kamala uses her hard-won skillsfor secrecy, languages, and reading the unspoken gestures of those around herto fight for her countryœs freedom and her own happiness.
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2002., Anchor Books Call No: NEW Fic Div Edition: First Anchor books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A collection of short stories set in India explores the adjustment of immigrants to a foreign land, the accommodations families make to the differences between generations, and the struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the promise of change.
