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The Adventures and Sufferings of John R. Jewitt: Captive of Maquinnaby John Rodgers Jewitt, Hilary StewartISBN 0295965479 (0-295-96547-9)
Hardcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Arabian Nights' Entertainmentsby Robert L. MacKISBN 0192834797 (0-19-283479-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arabian Nights' Entertainments'Book summary:The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from the possible infidelities of his wives leads to an outbreak of barbarity in his realm and to a reign of terror in his court, stopped only by the resourceful Scheherazade. The tales with which she nightly postpones the Sultan's murderous intent have entered our language and our lives like no other collection of stories before or since. Sinbad, Ali Baba, Aladdin: all make their appearance in Arabian Nights' Entertainments. This edition is the only one to offer the complete text of the earliest English translation, and also provides full notes and plot summaries, especially important in a such a sprawling work of great complexity. [via]
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The Autobiography of an Unknown Indianby Nirad C. ChaudhuriISBN 0201155761 (0-201-15576-1)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Bachelor of Artsby R.K. NarayanISBN 0226568334 (0-226-56833-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Blue Bedspreadby Raj Kamal JhaISBN 0330373854 (0-330-37385-4)
Hardcover, Picador
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Calcuttaby Geoffrey MoorhouseISBN 0297004557 (0-297-00455-7)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld
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The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History With Documentsby Theda Perdue, Michael D. GreenISBN 0312415990 (0-312-41599-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History With Documents'Book summary:The Cherokee Removal of 18381839 unfolded against a complex backdrop of competing ideologies, self-interest, party politics, altruism, and ambition. Using documents that convey Cherokee voices, government policy, and white citizens views, Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green present a multifaceted account of this complicated moment in American history. The second edition of this successful, class-tested volume contains four new sources, including the Cherokee Constitution of 1827 and a modern Cherokees perspective on the removal. The introduction provides students with succinct historical background. Document headnotes contextualize the selections and draw attention to historical methodology. To aid students investigation of this compelling topic, suggestions for further reading, photographs, and a chronology of the Cherokee removal are also included.[via]More editions of The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History With Documents:
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The Cilappatikaram of Ilanko Atikal: An Epic of South Indiaby Ilanko Atikal, R. ParthasarathyISBN 0231078498 (0-231-07849-8)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Circle of Reasonby Amitav GhoshISBN 0241117267 (0-241-11726-7)
Hardcover, H. Hamilton
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Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthologyby David Dean Shulman, Velceru NarayanaravuISBN 0195653009 (0-19-565300-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Coyote Wind and Specimen Songby Peter BowenISBN 031226514X (0-312-26514-X)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in Indiaby Diana EckISBN 0231112653 (0-231-11265-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India'Book summary:The role of the visual is essential to hindu tradition and culture, but many attempts to understand india's divine images have been laden with misperceptions. Darsan, a sanskrit word that means "seeing," is an aid to our vision, a book of ideas to help us read, think, and look at hindu images with appreciation and imagination [via]
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Deciphering the Maya Scriptby David H. KelleyISBN 0292715048 (0-292-71504-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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The Deerslayerby James Fenimore Cooper, H. Daniel PeckISBN 0192828118 (0-19-282811-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Deerslayer'Book summary:The Deerslayer (1841) is the last of the Leatherstocking Tales, but the first in the development of the hero Natty Bumppo. This novel marks Cooper's return to historical romance after more than a decade given largely to social and political commentary. This edition provides the authoritative text of the novel and prefaces to The Deerslayer (1841 and 1850) and to the Leatherstocking Tales (1850). [via]
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Discovery of Indiaby Jawaharlal NehruISBN 0195623592 (0-19-562359-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discovery of India'Book summary:In conjunction with the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi, Oxford proudly announces the reissue of Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India, two famous works by Jawaharlal Nehru. One of modern day's most articulate statesmen, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a on a wide variety of subjects. Describing himself as "a dabbler in many things," he committed his life not only to politics but also to nature and wild life, drama, poetry, history, and science, as well as many other fields. These two volumes help to illuminate the depth of his interests and knowledge and the skill and elegance with which he treated the written word. [via]
Edward S. Curtis in the Land of the War Canoes: A Pioneer Cinematographer in the Pacific Northwestby Bill Holm, George Irving QuimbyISBN 0295957085 (0-295-95708-5)
Hardcover, University of Washington Press
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The English Teacherby R.K. NarayanISBN 0226568350 (0-226-56835-0)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The English Teacher'Book summary:This novel completes the informal trilogy which began with Swami and Friends and The Bachelor of Arts. The protagonist, Krishna, is an English teacher at the same college he had attended as a student. Although Krishna has recently married, his wife Susila and their daughter live with his parents-in-law some miles away. The story opens with his immediate family deciding to join him in Malgudi. Krishna is initially frightened by his new state of affairs, but he soon finds that his love for both his wife and child grows deeper than he could have imagined.[via]
"Mr. Narayan has repeatedly been compared with Chekhov. Ordinarily such comparisons are gratuitous and strained, but in this case there are such clear and insistent echoes that any careful reader will be aware of them. There is that sense of rightness which transcends mere structure. There is the inexplicable blending of tragedy and humor. Most of all, there is a brooding awareness of fate which makes the story seem not authored, but merely translated."--J.F. Muehl, Saturday Review
"[Narayan] does not deal in exemplary fates, and the Western novel's machinery of retribution is far too grandiose for him. . . . In Narayan's world, scores are not settled but dissolved, recycled, restated. 'Both of us will shed our forms soon and perhaps we could meet again, who knows? So goodbye for the present.' These are the concluding words for the novel A Tiger for Malgudi, but they constitute a universal epilogue one could append to most of Narayan's fiction."--Russell Davies, Times Literary SupplementMore editions of The English Teacher:
Five Playsby Vijay TendulkarISBN 0195637364 (0-19-563736-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Flashman: From the Flashman Papers, 1839-1842by George MacDonald FraserISBN 0257667997 (0-257-66799-7)
Hardcover, Jenkins
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Flashman in the Great Gameby George MacDonald FraserISBN 0214201201 (0-214-20120-1)
Hardcover, Barrie & Jenkins
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Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story of George Bent-Caught Between the Worlds of the Indian and the White Manby Andrew E. Masich, David F. HalaasISBN 0306814102 (0-306-81410-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Hiawathaby David TreuerISBN 0312252722 (0-312-25272-2)
Softcover, Picador USA
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A History Of The Sikhsby Khushwant SinghISBN 0195673093 (0-19-567309-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History Of The Sikhs'Book summary:First published in 1963, this remains the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the Sikhs. The new edition updated to the present recounts the return of the community to the mainstream of national life. Written in Khushwant Singh's trademark style to be accessible to a general, non-scholarly audience, the book is based on scholarly archival research. [via]
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A History of the Sikhs: 1469-1839by Khushwant SinghISBN 0195626435 (0-19-562643-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Home and the Worldby Rabindranath TagoreISBN 0333918010 (0-333-91801-0)
Softcover, Asia Book Corp of Amer
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If You Are Afraid Of Heightsby Raj Kamal JhaISBN 0330427369 (0-330-42736-9)
Softcover, Trans-Atlantic Pubns
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India: Indiaby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0233969365 (0-233-96936-5)
Hardcover, Deutsch
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› Find signed collectible books: 'India: India'Book summary:In 1964 the author Naipaul wrote "An Area of Darkness", his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later he came to write "India: A Wounded Civilization" in which he recapitulates the feelings that the vast, mysterious and agonized continent aroused in him. [via]
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India Revealed: The Art and Adventures of James and William Fraser, 1801-35by Mildred Archer, Toby FalkISBN 0304322393 (0-304-32239-3)
Hardcover, Cassell
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Indian Artby Partha MitterISBN 0192842218 (0-19-284221-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Indian Cookeryby Dharam Jit SinghISBN 0263700194 (0-263-70019-4)
Hardcover, Mills & Boon
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Indian Life in the Upper Great Lakes 11,000 B.C. to A.D. 1800by G. I. QuimbyISBN 0226700445 (0-226-70044-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthologyby A. K. RamanujanISBN 0195635019 (0-19-563501-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Interior Landscape: Love Poems from a Classical Tamil Anthology'Book summary:This classic anthology of translations has long been out of print. The poems come from one of the earliest surviving texts of Tamil poetry, the Kuruntokai, an anthology of love lyrics probably recorded during the first three centuries AD. Seventy-six of these classical poems have here been given a modern language and form. In an effort at fidelity to the effect of the images and their placement in the original, Ramanujan has given a visual shape to the poems by typographic devices. An essay on Tamil poetry explains its techniques and enriches the reader's pleasure in these quiet, controlled, yet dramatic poems. [via]
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It Does Not Dieby Maitreyi DeviISBN 0226143651 (0-226-14365-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Just So Stories for Little Childrenby Rudyard Kipling, Lisa LewisISBN 0192834363 (0-19-283436-3)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Just So Stories for Little Children'Book summary:How did the camel get his hump? Why won't cats do as they are told? How did an inquisitive little elephant change the lives of elephants everywhere? Kipling's imagined answers to such questions draw on the beast fables of India, and they are full of jokes, subtexts, and exotic references. This fully illustrated edition of this classic includes two extra stories and Kipling's own explanation of the title. [via]
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Ladies Coupeby Anita NairISBN 0312320876 (0-312-32087-6)
Softcover, Griffin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ladies Coupe'Book summary:Meet Akhila: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider - until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women sleeping car - the 'Ladies Coupe' - Akhila asks the five women the question that has been haunting her all her adult life: can a woman stay single and be happy, or does she need a man to feel complete?[via]
This wonderfully atmospheric, deliciously warm novel takes the reader into the heart of women's lives in contemporary India, revealing how the dilemmas that women face in their relationships with hunsbands, mothers, friends, employers and children are the same world over.More editions of Ladies Coupe:
Lal Bahadur Shastri : A Life of Truth in Politicsby C. P. SrivastavaISBN 0195634993 (0-19-563499-3)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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The Last of the Mohicansby James Fenimore Cooper, John P. McWilliamsISBN 019283505X (0-19-283505-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Later Poems of Rabindranath Tagoreby Rabindranath TagoreISBN 0308102452 (0-308-10245-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Littleby David TreuerISBN 0312151640 (0-312-15164-0)
Softcover, Picador USA
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Long Sonby Peter BowenISBN 0312253982 (0-312-25398-2)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Love in a Dead Languageby Lee SiegelISBN 0226756998 (0-226-75699-8)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love in a Dead Language'Book summary:Philip Roth has done it. So have Updike and Nabokov. Now Lee Siegel joins the ranks of novelists who write novels that pretend not to be novels at all. Love in a Dead Language, for example, purports to be the work of one Professor Leopold Roth, and comprises both a translation of, and commentary on, the Kama Sutra, as well as the professor's more personal annotations concerning his amorous yearnings for one of his students. Siegel himself appears in a foreword, protesting vigorously that "I would never permit my name to be associated with a book such as this." This squeamishness is understandable when it becomes clear the entire purpose for this translation is to aid Roth in seducing young Lalita Gupta while leading a study group in India. Seduction, betrayal, and eventually death all follow on one another's heels; when Roth rather abruptly dies midway through the "translation," Siegel refuses to finish it and the task is left to a graduate student, Anang Saighal. So now we have yet another author who is not Siegel adding another layer of commentary to both Roth's professional work and his private journals--contradicting, criticizing, footnoting, while at the same time revealing details about his own unhappy life.
Though there's plenty of story in Love in a Dead Language--romance, transformation, and even a murder mystery--a magical delight in language in all its myriad forms is at its heart. From the academese of professional papers to the more intimate epistolary communications between friends, colleagues, husbands, and wives (letters between an earlier translator of the Kama Sutra, Richard Burton, and his wife--who later burned the translation--are included), Siegel--or is it Roth? or perhaps Saighal?--covers the gamut. Readers who love complicated plots, soaring language, etymological puzzles, and academic tomfoolery will have a ball with this playful instance of literary smoke and mirrors. --Margaret Prior [via]
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Love Song of the Dark Lord: Jayadeva's Gitagovindaby Barbara Stoler MillerISBN 0231110979 (0-231-11097-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Madras On Rainy Daysby Samina AliISBN 0312423306 (0-312-42330-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Madras On Rainy Days'Book summary:"A lyrical debut" Asian Week exploring the dilemma confronting Layla, a second generation Indian-American Muslim. As a dutiful Muslim daughter and an independent young American, Layla is torn between clashing identities. Reluctantly agreeing to her parents' wish for her to leave America and submit to an arranged marriage, Layla enters into the closed world of tradition and ritual as the wedding preparations get underway in Hyderabad. Set against a background of rising Hindu-Muslim violence, and taboo questions of sexuality, Samina Ali presents the complexities of life behind the chador, and the story of a marriage where no one is what they seem. In the words of the San Francisco Chronicle, Madras on Rainy Days introduces an "abundantly talented new voice." [via]
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Magic Seedsby V.S. NaipaulISBN 0330485229 (0-330-48522-9)
Softcover, Picador
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Magic Seeds'Book summary:Willy Chandran - whom we first met in "Half a Life" - is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. Now, in his early 40s, after a peripatetic life, he succumbs to the demanding encouragement of his sister - and his own listlessness - and joins an underground movement in India ostensibly devoted to unfettering the lower castes. But seven years of revolutionary campaigns and several years in jail convince him that the revolution 'had nothing to do with the village people we said we were fighting for', and he feels himself further than ever 'from his own history and...from the ideas of himself that might have come to him with that history'. When he returns to England where, 30 years before, his psychological and physical wanderings began, he finds the fruit of another unexpected social revolution (more magic seeds), and he comes to see himself as a man 'serving an endless prison sentence' - a revelation that may finally release him into his true self. "Magic Seeds" is a masterpiece, written with all the depth and resonance, the clarity of vision and precision of language that are the hallmarks of this brilliant writer. [via]
The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected Versesby Columbia College (Columbia University), C. V. NarasimhanISBN 0231110553 (0-231-11055-3)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Memory of Elephantsby Boman DesaiISBN 0226143813 (0-226-14381-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Memsahibs Abroad : Writings by Women Travellers in Nineteenth Century Indiaby Indira GhoseISBN 0195644239 (0-19-564423-9)
Hardcover, Oxford University Press
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Tony TannerISBN 0192833855 (0-19-283385-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:This innovative, scholarly edition of Moby Dick offers unprecedented access to the revisions Herman Melville made to the original 1851 American version of the novel and illuminates all changes which scholars have made to create the classic that readers know today. The fluid text feature illuminates the personal, social, and cultural context of Melvilles writing process, right on the page, while also offering fresh contextual notes, illustrations, and other apparatus to make this the most reader-friendly and therefore most teachable edition available today.
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Nailsby Peter BowenISBN 0312312075 (0-312-31207-5)
Hardcover, Minotaur Books
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Native North Americaby Larry J. Zimmerman, Brian Leigh MolyneauxISBN 0316988227 (0-316-98822-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Nehrus and the Gandhis: An Indian Dynastyby Tariq AliISBN 0330438395 (0-330-43839-5)
Hardcover, Picador
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Nineteen Eighty-Fourby George OrwellISBN 0198185219 (0-19-818521-9)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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On Beautyby Zadie SmithISBN 0241142938 (0-241-14293-8)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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On the Rezby Ian FrazierISBN 0312278594 (0-312-27859-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'On the Rez'Book summary:Given that the Great Plains long functioned as a stomping ground for the Oglala Sioux, it was inevitable that Ian Frazier would cross paths with them when he wrote his 1989 chronicle of that sublime flatland. But the encounter between the self-confessed "chintzy middle-class white guy" and his Native American counterparts went so swimmingly that Crazy Horse assumed a starring role in the book. Now Frazier continues his cross-cultural romance in On the Rez. This account of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is as touching, funny, and maniacally digressive as anything he's written. What's more, he manages to avoid most of the politically correct potholes along the way, producing a vivid, ambivalent (i.e., honest) portrait of a community where the very "landscape is dense with stories."
Much of On the Rez revolves around Le War Lance, whom Frazier first met in Great Plains. This yarn-spinning, beer-swilling figure serves the author as a kind of Native American Virgil, introducing him to the hard facts of reservation life. In fact, their friendship, with its accents of deep affection and dependency, anchors the entire narrative and elicits some typically top-drawer prose:
Le's eyes can be merry and flat as a smile button, or deep and glittering with malice or slyness or something he knows and I never will. He is fifty-seven years old. I have seen his hair, which is black streaked with gray, when it was over two feet long and held with beaded ponytail holders a foot or so apart, and I have seen it much shorter, after he had shaved his head in mourning for a friend who had died.
On the Rez delivers a history of the Oglala nation that spotlights our paleface population in some of its most shameful, backstabbing moments, as well as a quick tour through Indian America. The latter, to be honest, seems a little too conscientiously cooked up from primary sources and news clippings. But elsewhere Frazier is in superb form, reporting everything he sees and hears with enviable clarity and promptly pulling the rug out from under himself whenever he seems too omniscient. Few accounts of reservation life have been this comical; even fewer have moved beyond the poverty and pandemic drunk driving to discern actual, theological wickedness on the premises: "At such moments a sense of compound evil--the evil of the human heart, in league with the original darkness of this wild continent--curls around me like shoots of a fast-growing vine." In the hands of many a writer, the previous sentence might resemble a rhetorical firecracker. In Frazier's, it comes off as a statement of fact--which is only one of the reasons why every American, Native or not, should take a look at this sad, splendid, and surprisingly hopeful book. --James Marcus [via]More editions of On the Rez:
The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poetsby Arvind Krishna MehrotraISBN 0195628675 (0-19-562867-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Pancatantraby Patrick OlivelleISBN 0192839888 (0-19-283988-8)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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The Place of Dead Roadsby William S. BurroughsISBN 0312278659 (0-312-27865-9)
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Rabindranath Tagoreby Andrew Robinson, Krishna DuttaISBN 0312140304 (0-312-14030-4)
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Rabindranath Tagoreby Krishna Dutta, Andrew RobinsonISBN 031220079X (0-312-20079-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rabindranath Tagore'Book summary:The first Asian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Rabindranath Tagore mesmerized the world with his spiritual insights and finely wrought writings. This comprehensive and engaging anthology gathers his polymathic achievement, from the extraordinary humanity of The Post Officer to memoirs, letters, essays and conversations, short stories, extracts from the celebrated novel The Home and the World, poems, songs, epigrams, and paintings. This inspired collection of works by one of this century's most profound writers in an essential guide for readers seeking to understand Indian literature, culture, and wisdom, and the perfect reintroduction of Tagore's magnificence to American readers.[via]More editions of Rabindranath Tagore:
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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British Indiaby Lawrence JamesISBN 0312263821 (0-312-26382-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India'Book summary:This is the magnificently recounted story of one of the wonders of the modern world. In less than one hundred years, the British made themselves masters of India. They ruled it for another hundred, departing in 1947, leaving behind the independent states of India and Pakistan. Both nations owed much to Britain: British rule taught Indians to see themselves as Indians, and its benefits included railways, roads, canals, schools, universities, hospitals, law, and a universal language. There were also habits of mind and government that where derived from British custom.
None of this however, was planned. A series of emergencies in the eighteenth century transformed the East India Company into the most formidable war machine in Asia, and conquest gathered its own momentum. Fortunes were made, but the conscience of Britain was troubled by the despotism that was being created in its name. The result was a government that balanced firmness with benevolence, and had as its goal the advancement of India. There was resistance, both to the conquerors and, in the Indian mutiny, to the Raj they had made. This is a story of wars won against the odds and astonishing heroism, but it is also a tale of how, for many reasons millions of Indians collaborated with their new rulers and made possible the government of so many by so few. Raj contains much that is new, hidden, and controversial on areas as varied as the Mutiny, the Great Game, and the taxing of India.
The Raj, outwardly so monolithic and magnificent, was always precarious. Its masters knew that its survival ultimately depended on the goodwill of Indians, which was why pressure for self-government was met with a mixture of compromise and sternness. The twists and turns of the struggle for independence are told with a wealth of fresh material. Lawrence James galvanizes a subject already rich in incident and character: the India of the Raj was that of Clive, the Marquess Wellesley, Havelock, Kipling, Curzon, and Gandhi and a host of lesser known but vivid men and women. Raj probes their world and how they reacted to it. It will also provoke debate, using recently released official and private papers--to shed new light, flattering and unflattering, on Mountbatten and the other central and tragic events of 1946-47 that ended what had been simultaneously an exercise in benign autocracy and an experiment in altruism. [via]
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Sacred Circles: Two Thousand Years of North American Indian Art Nelson Gallery of Art-Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouriby Ralph T. CoeISBN 0295955848 (0-295-95584-8)
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The Select Nonsense of Sukumar Rayby Sukumar Ray, Sukanta ChaudhuriISBN 0195630394 (0-19-563039-4)
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Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditionsby Sudhir KakarISBN 0226422798 (0-226-42279-8)
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"With extraordinary sympathy, open-mindedness, and insight Sudhir Kakar has drawn from both his Eastern and Western backgrounds to show how the gulf that divides native healer from Western psychiatrist can be spanned."Rosemary Dinnage, New York Review of Books
"Each chapter describes the geographical and cultural context within which the healers work, their unique approach to healing mental illness, and . . . the philosophical and religious underpinnings of their theories compared with psychoanalytical theory."ChoiceMore editions of Shamans, Mystics and Doctors: A Psychological Inquiry into India and Its Healing Traditions:
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Shantaramby Gregory David RobertsISBN 0312330537 (0-312-33053-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shantaram'Book summary:Crime and punishment, passion and loyalty, betrayal and redemption are only a few of the ingredients in Shantaram, a massive, over-the-top, mostly autobiographical novel. Shantaram is the name given Mr. Lindsay, or Linbaba, the larger-than-life hero. It means "man of God's peace," which is what the Indian people know of Lin. What they do not know is that prior to his arrival in Bombay he escaped from an Australian prison where he had begun serving a 19-year sentence. He served two years and leaped over the wall. He was imprisoned for a string of armed robberies peformed to support his heroin addiction, which started when his marriage fell apart and he lost custody of his daughter. All of that is enough for several lifetimes, but for Greg Roberts, that's only the beginning.
He arrives in Bombay with little money, an assumed name, false papers, an untellable past, and no plans for the future. Fortunately, he meets Prabaker right away, a sweet, smiling man who is a street guide. He takes to Lin immediately, eventually introducing him to his home village, where they end up living for six months. When they return to Bombay, they take up residence in a sprawling illegal slum of 25,000 people and Linbaba becomes the resident "doctor." With a prison knowledge of first aid and whatever medicines he can cadge from doing trades with the local Mafia, he sets up a practice and is regarded as heaven-sent by these poor people who have nothing but illness, rat bites, dysentery, and anemia. He also meets Karla, an enigmatic Swiss-American woman, with whom he falls in love. Theirs is a complicated relationship, and Karlas connections are murky from the outset.
Roberts is not reluctant to wax poetic; in fact, some of his prose is downright embarrassing. Throughought the novel, however, all 944 pages of it, every single sentence rings true. He is a tough guy with a tender heart, one capable of what is judged criminal behavior, but a basically decent, intelligent man who would never intentionally hurt anyone, especially anyone he knew. He is a magnet for trouble, a soldier of fortune, a picaresque hero: the rascal who lives by his wits in a corrupt society. His story is irresistible. Stay tuned for the prequel and the sequel. --Valerie Ryan [via]
Song of Kaliby Dan SimmonsISBN 031286583X (0-312-86583-X)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Sources of Indian Traditionby Stephen N. Hay, William Theodore De Bary, Ainslie Thomas EmbreeISBN 0231064152 (0-231-06415-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sources of Indian Tradition'Book summary:Since 1958 one of the most important and widely used texts on civilization in South Asia (now the nation-states of India, Pakstan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal), this classic is now extensively revised, with much new material added. Introductory essays explain the particular settings in which leading Indian thinkers have expressed their ideas about religious, social, political, and economic questions. Brief summaries precede each passage from their writings or sayings.
Chapters address the opening of India to the West; Hindu and Muslim social and religious reform movements; the emergence of both moderate and extremist nationalisms; the thought of Mahatma Gandhi; public policies for independent India; Pakistan's formation as an Islamic state, and other topics.
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Sources of Indian Tradition: From the Beginning to 1800by Stephen N. Hay, Ainslie Embree, William Theodore De BaryISBN 0231066511 (0-231-06651-1)
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Specimen Songby Peter BowenISBN 0312957637 (0-312-95763-7)
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Swami and Friendsby R.K. NarayanISBN 0226568318 (0-226-56831-8)
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Teach Yourself Sanskritby CoulsonISBN 0340059826 (0-340-05982-6)
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Thunder Horseby Peter BowenISBN 0312317719 (0-312-31771-9)
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Thy Hand, Great Anarch!: India, 1921-1952by Nirad C. ChaudhuriISBN 020115577X (0-201-15577-X)
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The Tumblerby Peter BowenISBN 0312277334 (0-312-27733-4)
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The Turmeric Trail: Recipes and Memories from an Indian Childhoodby Raghavan IyerISBN 0312276826 (0-312-27682-6)
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Walk Two Moonsby Sharon CreechISBN 0330330004 (0-330-33000-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walk Two Moons'Book summary:Thirteen-year-old Salamanca Tree Hiddle's mother has disappeared. While tracing her steps on a car trip from Ohio to Idaho with her grandparents, Salamanca tells a story to pass the time about a friend named Phoebe Winterbottom whose mother vanished and who received secret messages after her disappearance. One of them read, "Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins." Despite her father's warning that she is "fishing in the air," Salamanca hopes to bring her home. By drawing strength from her Native American ancestry, she is able to face the truth about her mother. Walk Two Moons won the 1995 Newbery Medal. [via]
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White Teeth: Reader's Companionby Zadie SmithISBN 024113997X (0-241-13997-X)
Softcover, Hamish Hamilton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'White Teeth: Reader's Companion'Book summary:Epic in scale and intimate in approach, White Teeth is a formidably ambitious debut. First novelist Zadie Smith takes on race, sex, class, history, and the minefield of gender politics, and such is her wit and inventiveness that these weighty subjects seem effortlessly light. She also has an impressive geographical range, guiding the reader from Jamaica to Turkey to Bangladesh and back again.
Still, the book's home base is a scrubby North London borough, where we encounter Smith's unlikely heroes: prevaricating Archie Jones and intemperate Samad Iqbal, who served together in the so-called Buggered Battalion during World War II. In the ensuing decades, both have gone forth and multiplied: Archie marries beautiful, bucktoothed Clara--who's on the run from her Jehovah's Witness mother--and fathers a daughter. Samad marries stroppy Alsana, who gives birth to twin sons. Here is multiculturalism in its most elemental form: "Children with first and last names on a direct collision course. Names that secrete within them mass exodus, cramped boats and planes, cold arrivals, medical checks."
Big questions demand boldly drawn characters. Zadie Smith's aren't heroic, just real: warm, funny, misguided, and entirely familiar. Reading their conversations is like eavesdropping. Even a simple exchange between Alsana and Clara about their pregnancies has a comical ring of truth: "A woman has to have the private things--a husband needn't be involved in body business, in a lady's... parts." And the men, of course, have their own involvement in bodily functions:
The deal was this: on January 1, 1980, like a New Year dieter who gives up cheese on the condition that he can have chocolate, Samad gave up masturbation so that he might drink. It was a deal, a business proposition, that he had made with God: Samad being the party of the first part, God being the sleeping partner. And since that day Samad had enjoyed relative spiritual peace and many a frothy Guinness with Archibald Jones; he had even developed the habit of taking his last gulp looking up at the sky like a Christian, thinking: I'm basically a good man.
Not all of White Teeth is so amusingly carnal. The mixed blessings of assimilation, for example, are an ongoing torture for Samad as he watches his sons grow up. "They have both lost their way," he grumbles. "Strayed so far from what I had intended for them. No doubt they will both marry white women called Sheila and put me in an early grave." These classic immigrant fears--of dilution and disappearance--are no laughing matter. But in the end, they're exactly what gives White Teeth its lasting power and undeniable bite. --Eithne Farry [via]More editions of White Teeth: Reader's Companion:
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Women Travellers in Colonial India: The Power of the Female Gazeby Indira GhoseISBN 0195642082 (0-19-564208-2)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women Travellers in Colonial India: The Power of the Female Gaze'Book summary:Drawing on long-neglected travel writings by British women in India, this study looks at different aspects that women focus on as opposed to men, particularly in their encounters with Indian women in the zenana. Located at the cross-roads of feminist theory and colonial discourse theory, the book examines the power relations inscribed into the traveller's gaze. [via]
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The World the Romans Knewby N. H. H. SitwellISBN 0241113180 (0-241-11318-0)
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