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Catching History on the Wing

Race, Culture and Globalisation

by A. Sivanandan ...

Series series Get Political
Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience.A. Sivanandan is a highly influential thinker on race, racism, globalisation and resistance. Since 1972, he has been the director of the Institute of Race Relations and the editor of Race & Class, which set the policy agenda on ethnicity and race in the UK and ... Read more

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Part of Pluto's 21st birthday series Get Political, which brings essential political writing in a range of fields to a new audience.A. Sivanandan is a highly influential thinker on race, racism, globalisation and resistance. Since 1972, he has been the director of the Institute of Race Relations and the editor of Race & Class, which set the policy agenda on ethnicity and race in the UK and
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A Different Hunger

Writings on Black Resistance

by A. Sivanandan ...

This collection of A. Sivanandan's writings looks at the history of black struggles against British racism from the 1940s to the uprisings of Brixton and Toxteth in the 1980s. ... Read more

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This collection of A. Sivanandan's writings looks at the history of black struggles against British racism from the 1940s to the uprisings of Brixton and Toxteth in the 1980s.
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When Memory Dies

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"Haunting, with an immense tenderness . . . Unforgettable" JOHN BERGER"Profoundly moving" Evening Standard"A brilliant and moving first novel" Times Literary Supplement"I'm recommending When Memory Dies to everyone" Arthur C. ClarkeThe Buddha taught that to live is to experience suffering. Few family sagas, especially first ones, have captured this aspect of suffering... ... Read more

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"Haunting, with an immense tenderness . . . Unforgettable" JOHN BERGER"Profoundly moving" Evening Standard"A brilliant and moving first novel" Times Literary Supplement"I'm recommending When Memory Dies to everyone" Arthur C. ClarkeThe Buddha taught that to live is to experience suffering. Few family sagas, especially first ones, have captured this aspect of suffering...
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Communities of Resistance

Writings on Black Struggles for Socialism

by A. Sivanandan ...

‘There is no socialism after liberation, socialism is the process through which liberation is won.’ Each of the essays in Communities of Resistance acts as a critical reaffirmation of socialist politics as the context for questions of race and resistance.The left itself is under scrutiny here—from a black perspective. A series of powerful interventions covers many of the issues which have ... Read more

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‘There is no socialism after liberation, socialism is the process through which liberation is won.’ Each of the essays in Communities of Resistance acts as a critical reaffirmation of socialist politics as the context for questions of race and resistance.The left itself is under scrutiny here—from a black perspective. A series of powerful interventions covers many of the issues which have
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A House for Mr. Biswas

A Novel

by V. S. Naipaul ...

Series series Vintage International
**From the Nobel Prize-winning author: an unforgettable comedy of manners inspired by the author's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.“A marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.” —Newsweek**In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to ... Read more

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**From the Nobel Prize-winning author: an unforgettable comedy of manners inspired by the author's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.“A marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.” —Newsweek**In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to
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Tibetan Foothold

by Dervla Murphy ...

After her epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle in 1963, Dervla Murphy immersed herself in the life of the sub-continent, working for six months in an orphanage for Tibetan children in Northern India. She fell in love with the 'Tiblets' - the cheerful, uncomplaining, independent and affectionate children of the new Tibet-in-exile - but she also managed to explore India's Tibetan frontier, ... Read more

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After her epic journey from Ireland to India by bicycle in 1963, Dervla Murphy immersed herself in the life of the sub-continent, working for six months in an orphanage for Tibetan children in Northern India. She fell in love with the 'Tiblets' - the cheerful, uncomplaining, independent and affectionate children of the new Tibet-in-exile - but she also managed to explore India's Tibetan frontier,
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The Waiting Land

A Spell in Nepal

by Dervla Murphy ...

The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain cultures of the Himalayas, she is lured by the chance to work again with Tibetan refugees - this time a group of five hundred lodged in tents in the remote Pokhara valley. Once established in ... Read more

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The Waiting Land is an exploration of Nepal by a feisty, generous-hearted young Irish woman in the spring of 1965. The third in a series of books tracing Dervla's involvement with the self-sufficient mountain cultures of the Himalayas, she is lured by the chance to work again with Tibetan refugees - this time a group of five hundred lodged in tents in the remote Pokhara valley. Once established in
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House of Snow

An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal

Edited by Ellen Parnavelas ...

A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people.'If you want a book in English that tells you about Nepalese thinking, and gives a taste of the country's contemporary literature, you could hardly do better than House of Snow' Daily Telegraph'One of the finest books I have read this year' Nudge Books'A ... Read more

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A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its people.'If you want a book in English that tells you about Nepalese thinking, and gives a taste of the country's contemporary literature, you could hardly do better than House of Snow' Daily Telegraph'One of the finest books I have read this year' Nudge Books'A
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The Jewel in the Crown

by Paul Scott ...

Series Book 1 - The Raj Quartet
The first novel in the epic quartet about the last days of British rule in India, "as much a story of romantic love as it is of crime . . . an artful triumph" ( The New Yorker).The Jewel in the Crown is the first of Paul Scott's renowned historical novels that "limn the Anglo-Indian world with its lovers, friends, family servants, soldiers, businessmen, murderers and suicides—all involved in one ... Read more

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The first novel in the epic quartet about the last days of British rule in India, "as much a story of romantic love as it is of crime . . . an artful triumph" ( The New Yorker).The Jewel in the Crown is the first of Paul Scott's renowned historical novels that "limn the Anglo-Indian world with its lovers, friends, family servants, soldiers, businessmen, murderers and suicides—all involved in one
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The Moneylenders of Shahpur

by Helen Forrester ...

Timeless romance from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction continues to move readers.Anasuyabehn was brought up to obey her father in all things. She didn’t question this until she set eyes on Tilak, the brilliant new professor at Shahpur University.Promised to Mahadev, a ... Read more

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Timeless romance from the best-selling author of Tuppence to Cross the Mersey. With over 3 million copies sold around the world, Helen Forrester’s hard-hitting and gripping fiction continues to move readers.Anasuyabehn was brought up to obey her father in all things. She didn’t question this until she set eyes on Tilak, the brilliant new professor at Shahpur University.Promised to Mahadev, a
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Swami and Friends

by R. K. Narayan ...

Series series Vintage International
R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan’s beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathan’s excitement about his country’s initial stirrings for independence competes with his ardor for cricket and all other things British. Written ... Read more

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R. K. Narayan (1906—2001) witnessed nearly a century of change in his native India and captured it in fiction of uncommon warmth and vibrancy. Swami and Friends introduces us to Narayan’s beloved fictional town of Malgudi, where ten-year-old Swaminathan’s excitement about his country’s initial stirrings for independence competes with his ardor for cricket and all other things British. Written
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Saraswati Park

by Anjali Joseph ...

A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author.Feted for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such enclave, Mohan, a middle-aged letter writer – the last of a dying profession – sits under a banyan tree in Fort, furnishing missives for village migrants, disenchanted lovers, and when pickings are slim, filling in money order forms. But Mohan's ... Read more

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A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author.Feted for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such enclave, Mohan, a middle-aged letter writer – the last of a dying profession – sits under a banyan tree in Fort, furnishing missives for village migrants, disenchanted lovers, and when pickings are slim, filling in money order forms. But Mohan's
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