<p>In QUEEN OF DREAMS, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni once more spins a fresh, spellbinding story of transformation. Rakhi, a young artist and divorced mother living in Berkeley, California, is struggling to keep her footing, with her family and her world in alarming transition. Her mother is a dream-teller, born with the ability to share and interpret the dreams of others, to foresee and guide them through their fates. This gift fascinates Rakhi, but also isolates her from her mother's past in India and the dream world she inhabits, and she longs for something to bring them closer. Caught beneath the burden of her painful secret, Rakhi's solace comes in the discovery, after her mother's death, of her dream journals, which begin to open the long-closed doors to her past. As Rakhi's mother writes 'A dream is a telegram from the hidden world'. In lush elegant prose, Divakaruni has crafted a vivid and enduring dream that reveals hidden truths about the world we live in, from which readers will be reluctant to wake.</p>

Queen of Dreams

Literature & Fiction

Chitra Divakaruni

Contemporary

Hachette Book Publishing India

Chitra divakaruni is well known for her highly acclaimed novel the mistress of spices and her award winning short story collection arranged marriage. In this new collection she weaves tales of india and of new settlers in america with touching perception and colour. A young girl protects her small brother from the wrath of her father and the stain of poverty, but when he flees the house to escape, she catches the bright white of his shirt flashing past the foliage of the indian trees and finds she has to keep the greatest secret of them all: his fight for liberty; a widowed grandmother arrives in america to stay with her only son and his children, looking forward to a new life among those who love her most but soon discovers a world of materialism, familial strife and the loss of family ties. In this exquisite collection of stories, chitra banerjee divakaruni paints the realities of solitude, expectation, love and betrayal and deftly embroiders a colourful tapestry of life in the east and west.

Lives Of Strangers

ABACUS +

'Hear My Voice' is an exciting compilation of stories, poems, essays, and speeches from a wide range of writers. The voices in this anthology reflect the diversity of American culture and provide the reader with a unique glimpse into everyday lives and extraordinary events. Joyous, angry, sad, celebratory, frustrated, and hopeful voices tell of the passion and vitality of life in the United States. The works in the anthology are divided into six units: Borders; Love; Family and Generations; Society; Conflict, Struggle and Change; Personal Identity; and Celebrations. Characters of diverse age, gender, race, heritage lead the readers through these themes as they explore issues, make difficult decisions, and struggle with complex emotions. Questions after each selection provide a bridge between the literature and the reader's own life.

Hear My Voice: A Multicultural Anthology of Literature From the United States

ALICE WALKER

Langston Hughes

Nikki Giovanni

Gwendolyn Brooks

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR

Martin Luther King

M. Scott Momaday

James, Baldwin

Gish Jen

Addison-Wesley Publishing Company

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