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Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When a young girl in India discovers a slab of stone, she brings together her community to help dig around the stones, which reveals steps leading down to an ancient well--one that will cause an much-needed underground spring to flow once again.
Author
Publisher
Kalaniot Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Leah and her family are packing everything they own, and along with their close-knit Jewish community, leaving the coast of India for their new home in Israel. Leah is torn between the two treasured places until she realizes that her heart is big enough to hold many things.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jadunath Kunwar's beginnings are humble, even inauspicious. His mother, while pregnant, nearly dies from a cobra bite. And this is only the first of many challenges in store for Jadu. As his life skates between the mythical and the mundane, Jadu finds meaning in the most unexpected places. He becomes a historian. He has a daughter, Jugnu, who grows up to be a television journalist and then escapes her marriage for a career in the United States. And...
Author
Series
Malabar House volume 4
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Bombay, 1950. James Whitby, sentenced to death for the murder of prominent lawyer and former Quit India activist Fareed Mazumdar, is less than two weeks from a date with the gallows. In a last-ditch attempt to save his son, Whitby's father forces a new investigation into the killing. The investigation leads Inspector Persis Wadia of the Bombay Police to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where, with the help of Scotland Yard criminalist Archie...
Author
Publisher
Narrativa/Salamandra
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"El pacto del agua sigue a una familia que sufre una aflicción peculiar: en cada generación, al menos una persona muere ahogada, y en Kerala el agua está en todas partes. A principios del siglo XX, una niña de doce años es enviada en barco para contraer matrimonio con un hombre de cuarenta al que no conoce. A partir de entonces, la joven y futura matriarca, conocida como Big Ammachi, será testigo de cambios impensables: una historia llena de...