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Swarnalata
ISBN: HB: 9789385932458, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Set in mid-nineteenth-century Assam, when new concepts of modernity are increasingly challenging tradition, "Swarnalata" tells the story of three women from very different social backgrounds. Each of them swept up in the whirlpool of change, they her...
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£19,00
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Saga of Satisar
ISBN: PB: 9789381017630, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, May 2018
450 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Combining myth, legend, geography, history, and politics, "The Saga of Satisar" is the panoramic history of the Kashmiri Pandits. In it, award-winning Hindi writer Chandrakanta unspools a novel that spans two centuries, illustrating how Kashmiri live...
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ISBN: HB: 9789385932298, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
360 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Twenty-five long years after the war that was supposed to liberate Bangladesh – and that instead, for far too many people, merely brought fear, violence, and loss – a young researcher arrives on the doorstep of one survivor in Dhaka, Mariam, armed wi...
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Search for Justice The Sri Lanka Papers
ISBN: HB: 9789385932069, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
350 pp., 21.6x14 cm
At the end of a quarter century of conflict, over 100,000 Sri Lankans have died and thousands of survivors have been victims of sexual violence. The subsequent cry for justice cannot be ignored. In "The Search for Justice", a collection of writers an...
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£34,00
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Suki
ISBN: HB: 9789383074105, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
264 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In "Suki", Suniti Namjoshi weaves a witty and delightful tapestry from threads of longing, loss, memory, metaphor, and contemplation. Taken as a whole, the picture she draws is a stunning evocation of the love and friendship shared between herself an...
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£16,00
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Spectacles of Blood A Study of Masculinity and Violence in Postcolonial Films
ISBN: HB: 9789381017159, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
200 pp., 22.8x14 cm
This superb collection of essays illuminates the film portrayal of violence, masculinity, and power in a postcolonial context, showing how the cinema challenges, normalizes, or contests these major issues. Taking an interdisciplinary and comparative...
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£22,50
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Song Seekers
ISBN: PB: 9789381017036, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
300 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In "The Song Seekers", the debut novel by Saswati Sengupta, the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata while four women sit and read and talk in the kitchen of Kailash, the old mansion of the Chattopadhyays where Uma comes to live after her marr...
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£11,50
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