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 true passion is collecting second-hand books; he's particularly attached to novels with marginal annotations. So when the pavement booksellers of Fort are summarily evicted, Mohan's life starts to lose some of its animating lustre. At this tenuous moment Mohan - and his wife, Lakshmi - are joined in Saraswati Park, a suburban housing colony, by their nephew, Ashish, a diffident, sexually uncertain 19-year-old who has to repeat his final year in college. As Saraswati Park unfolds, the lives of each of the three characters are thrown into sharp relief by the comical frustrations of family life: annoying relatives, unspoken yearnings and unheard grievances. When Lakshmi loses her only brother, she leaves Bombay for a relative's home to mourn not only the death of a sibling but also the vital force of her marriage. Ashish, meanwhile, embarks on an affair with a much richer boy in his college; it ends abruptly. Not long afterwards, he succumbs to the overtures of his English tutor, Narayan. As Mohan scribbles away in the sort of books he secretly hopes to write one day, he worries about whether his wife will return, what will become of Ashish's life, and if he himself will ever find his own voice to write from the margins about the centre of which he will never be a part. Elliptical and enigmatic, but beautifully rendered and wonderfully involving, Saraswati Park is a book about love and loss and the noise in our heads - and how, in spite of everything, life, both lived and imagined, continues.

Saraswati Park

Anjali Joseph

Harpercollins Pb

Mohan, a middle-aged letter writer 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 true passion is collecting second-hand books and he's particularly attached to novels with marginal annotations.

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Fourth Estate (GB)

Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, this is a superb second novel from the author of the multiple-award winning `Saraswati Park'.Paris, London, Bombay: three cities form a backdrop to a journey through Leela's twenties at the dawn of the new millennium, as she learns to negotiate the world, work, relationships and sex, and find some measure of authenticity.Sharp, funny, and melancholy, Another Country brings a cool eye to friendship, love, and the idea of belonging in its movements through old and new worlds. As with her debut, Saraswati Park, Anjali Joseph's beautiful, clear writing captures exactly both emotions and surroundings.

Another Country. by Anjali Joseph

Literary

Fourth Estate Ltd.

Another Country

HarperCollins, Publishers

A superb second novel from the author of the multiple-award winning Saraswati Park."They'd discussed it earlier, in the days of their friendship: the need to reach a certain phase in one's life, to become a householder, to enter the world and leave behind the selfish days of youth."Paris, London, Bombay: three cities form a backdrop to a journey through Leela's twenties at the dawn of the new millennium, as she learns to negotiate the world, work, relationships and sex, and find some measure of authenticity. Sharp, funny, and melancholy, Another Country brings a cool eye to friendship, love, and the idea of belonging in its movements through old and new worlds. As with her debut, Saraswati Park (2010), which won the Desmond Elliott Prize, the Betty Trask Prize and India's Vodafone Crossword Prize, Anjali Joseph's beautiful, clear writing captures exactly both emotions and surroundings.

Humor & Satire

UK General Books

LIVING- HB

HARPER/COLLINS

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Building the Evidence Base: Understanding Research in Healthcare Design (EDAC Study Guide, Volume 2)

Xiaobo Quan

Lyn Geboy

Rachael Ginsberg

Sheila Bosch

Amy Keller

Reference

The Center for Health Design, Inc.

Keeping in Touch

Scribe UK

BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering.

Saraswati Park [Dec 01, 2011] Joseph, Anjali

Harpercollins

A NOVEL WITH A LINGERING RESONANCE FOR OUR TIMES 
Winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize, the Betty Trask Prize and the Crossword Book Award, 
Anjali Joseph returns with a finely observed tale about love. 
Keteki is charming but allergic to commitment; Ved is smitten but something of a toxic 
bachelor. As they begin the intricate and transformative dance of a long\-distance relationship, 
they also navigate changes in their lives. Set in Assam and London, Keeping in Touch is edgy, 
funny, and uncompromisingly modern.

Genre Fiction

Westland Publications

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