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Bandivan (बंदिवान)
नजरवैâदेत जन्म. बिनखिडकीच्या छोट्याशा खोलीत वावर. छतावरच्या काचेच्या कौलातून दिसणारा आकाशाचा तुकडा - एवढेच बाह्यजगताचे दर्शन. पळवून, अज्ञातवासात ठेवलेली तरुण आई - एवढीच काय ती साथ-संगत. टी.व्ही.वर दिसणाNया वस्तू, झाडे, प्राणी, पक्षी ह्या केवळ पडद्यावरच्या काल्पनिक गोष्टी - हीच दृढ समजूत. ...पण एक दिवस अचानक, आपल्या वापरातल्या वस्तू टी.व्ही.वरपण दिसतात, हे या पाच वर्षांच्या बंदिवानाला कळते आणि... त्याचे भावविश्व उलटे-पालटे होते. त्याची बंदिवान आई हादरते आणि निर्धार करते... आता काहीही करून येथून निसटायचेच... त्यांच्या नजरवैâदेची व्यथा आणि सुटकेची वास्तवकथा म्हणजे बंदिवान पण पाच वर्षांच्या मुलाच्या नजरेतून उलगडणारी!
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Akin
Akin is a tender tale of love, loss and family, from Emma Donoghue, the international bestselling author of Room.'If Room forced home truths on us, about parenthood, responsibility and love, Akin deals with similar subject matter more subtly, but in the end just as compellingly' - GuardianA retired New York professor’s life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets.Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France.This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak haché to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family’s past, both of them come to grasp the risks that people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew.Written with all the tenderness and psychological intensity that made Room a huge bestseller, Akin is a funny, heart-wrenching tale of an old man and a boy who unpick their painful story and start to write a new one together.'Poignant and hopeful, the bestselling novelist of Room has delivered another exquisite portrayal of an adult and child making their way in the world' – Woman & Home
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Room
Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don???t have the key. Jack and Ma are prisoners. ???Room is a book to read in one sitting. When it???s over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days??? Audrey Niffenegger ???One of the most profoundly affecting books I???ve read in a long time??? John Boyne ???Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of lan Room is unlike anything I???ve ever read before??? Anita Shreve ???Room is that rarest of entities, an entirely original work of art. I mean it as the highest possible praise when I tell you that I can???t compare it to any other book. Suffice to say that it???s potent, darkly beautiful, and revelatory??? Michael Cunningham
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Frog Music
San Francisco, 1876 - A stifling heat wave and smallpox epidemic have engulfed the City. Deep in the streets of Chinatown live three former stars of the Parisian circus - Blanche, now an exotic dancer at the House of Mirrors, her lover Arthur and his companion Ernest. When an eccentric outsider joins their little circle, secrets unravel, changing everything and leaving one of them dead. Frog Music, inspired by true events, is an evocative novel of intrigue and murder elegant, erotic and witty. About the Author Born in Dublin in 1969 and now living in Canada, Emma Donoghue is a writer of fiction, history and drama for radio, stage and screen. She is best known for her international bestseller Room, shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes and winner of the Commonwealth (Canada / Caribbean), Rogers Writers Trust and Hughes & Hughes Irish Novel of the Year Awards. Her fiction ranges from contemporary (Stir-fry, Hood, Landing, Touchy Subjects) to historical (Slammerkin, The Woman who gave birth to Rabbits, Life Mask, The Sealed Letter, Astray) to fairy-tale (Kissing the Witch).
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Love Alters
The writers of these intriguing, provocative stories come from every part of the world. Their stories are set in South Afric,Trinidad,Australia, Ireland, Jamaica, New Zealand and elsewhere, bringing a thrilling diversity not only of subject matter,but of style, too. These are writers who have little in common other than that they have written on lesbian themes.