Indian - Indian-American Literature | Indian - Indian-American Studies - Interest
Jul.21.2010
A young widow and Indian-American businesswoman rediscovers the magic of love, family, and the complex nature of relationships while she fights to save her failing sari shop in Edison, New Jersey.
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Jun.26.2010
What happens when a woman who's realized all her dreams wakes up to a shocking truth? The son she was told was stillborn 30 years ago is alive and now fighting for his life. She is the only person who can help save him. But revealing her 30-year secret to her husband could ruin her marriage and...
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May.05.2010
Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is...
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Mar.29.2010
Trapped in a troubled marriage with a disabled husband, Carolyn Weedman is ripe for a change in her life. After a chance encounter with a widowed Pala Indian professor, Carolyn finds herself drawn into an unexpected love affair. Torn by conflicting feelings, she discovers a secret about her husband...
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Dec.06.2009
Aju Mukhopadhyay's The Moments of Life is a compilation of 26 short stories. The author's deep understanding of human nature and emotions comes across through the different situations that he explores in each of his stories.
Set in different parts of India, mostly in Bengal and sometimes in the...
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May.28.2009
THE DOWRY BRIDE tells the poignant and explosive story of a young bride victimized by India’s controversial Dowry System and Arranged Marriage. Caught between tradition and the truths buried in her heart, a dowry bride will discover the real cost of the only things worth having in life…
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Dec.22.2008
Samar--a.k.a. Sam--is an Indian-American teenager whose mom has kept her away from her old-fashioned family. It's never bothered Sam, who is busy with school, friends, and a demanding boyfriend. But things change after 9/11. A guy in a turban shows up at Sam's house--and turns out to be her...
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Sep.18.2008
Maria "Pagan" Miranda Flores leaves her home in California, her lover, and her job to journey to Goa, India, where her grandmother, Dona Gabriela, lies on her deathbed. As she reacquaints herself with her toots, old relationships--and disaffections-- are revived. She is drawn into the...
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Apr.17.2008
Relevant to today’s war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to the time of the Indian epic The Mahabharat—a time that is half-history, half-myth, and wholly magical. Through her narrator Panchaali, the wife of the legendary five Pandavas brothers, Divakaruni gives us a rare feminist...
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