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“jayant kaikini”

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  • No Presents Please

    Mumbai Stories

    by Jayant Kaikini ...
    Translated by Tejaswini Niranjana ...
    For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here are stories on the pathos and comedy of small–town migrants struggling to build a life in the big city, with the dream world of Bollywood never far away.Jayant Kaikini’s gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbai—a bus driver who, denied vacation time, steals the bus to travel home; a slum ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • No Presents Please

    Mumbai Stories

    by Jayant Kaikini, Tejaswini Niranjana ...
    Winner: DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories is not about what Mumbai is, but what it enables. Here is a city where two young people decide to elope and then start nursing dreams of different futures, where film posters start talking to each other, where epiphanies are found in keychains and thermos-flasks. From Irani cafes to chawls, old cinema houses to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • No Presents Please

    Mumbai Stories

    by Jayant Kaikini, Tejaswini Niranjana ...
    Winner: DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2019 Jayant Kaikini's compassionate gaze takes in the people in the corners of the city, the young woman yearning for love, the certified virgin who must be married off again, the older woman and her medicines; Tejaswini Niranjana's translations bring the rhythms of Kannada into English with admirable efficiency. This is a Bombay book, a Mumbai book, a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Case of the Man Who Died Laughing

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    The latest adventures of Indian detective Vish Puri continues the series that “immediately joins the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency as representing the best in international cozies” (Booklist, starred review).Murder is no laughing matter.Yet a prominent Indian scientist dies in a fit of giggles when a Hindu goddess appears from a mist and plunges a sword into his chest.The only one laughing now is ... Read more

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  • Kuttiedathi And Other Stories

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