Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689872429
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The acclaimed short-story author and poet transports readers from the teeming streets of India to the rolling Himalayas, in this lyrical, exotic, and rich middle-grade fantasy.
The Conch Bearer
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689872429
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The acclaimed short-story author and poet transports readers from the teeming streets of India to the rolling Himalayas, in this lyrical, exotic, and rich middle-grade fantasy.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689872429
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
The acclaimed short-story author and poet transports readers from the teeming streets of India to the rolling Himalayas, in this lyrical, exotic, and rich middle-grade fantasy.
The Conch Bearer
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780761319351
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Action and adventure are combined in this exotic, compelling fantasy set in contemporary India. Young Adult.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780761319351
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Action and adventure are combined in this exotic, compelling fantasy set in contemporary India. Young Adult.
The Conch Bearer
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home, high in the Himalayan mountains.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In India, a healer invites twelve-year-old Anand to join him on a quest to return a magical conch to its safe and rightful home, high in the Himalayan mountains.
The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781596430679
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Set in contemporary India, as well as several hundred years in the past, thistitle continues the adventures of Anand and his quest to become a full memberof the Brotherhood of the Conch.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9781596430679
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Set in contemporary India, as well as several hundred years in the past, thistitle continues the adventures of Anand and his quest to become a full memberof the Brotherhood of the Conch.
Grandma and the Great Gourd
Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596433787
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
On her way to visit her daughter on the other side of the jungle, Grandma encounters a hungry fox, bear, and tiger, and although she convinces them to wait for her return trip, she still must find a way to outwit them all.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1596433787
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
On her way to visit her daughter on the other side of the jungle, Grandma encounters a hungry fox, bear, and tiger, and although she convinces them to wait for her return trip, she still must find a way to outwit them all.
Shadowland
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 9351940551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Shadowland is a novel that begins with the readers being told that Anand, the protagonist of the story has just started getting used to life as an apprentice in the Silver Valley, which is located in the Himalayas. Anand also endeavors to master the arts of the Brotherhood, while he is staying there. However, this plan is rudely interrupted when Anand discovers that a mysterious, evil force has stolen the conch, which provides magical power to his Himalayan home. Now Anand, and his friend Nisha must make every attempt to recover the stolen conch in order to restore power to Anand’s home. This marks their adventurous journey into the mysterious and forbidden Shadowland.
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 9351940551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Shadowland is a novel that begins with the readers being told that Anand, the protagonist of the story has just started getting used to life as an apprentice in the Silver Valley, which is located in the Himalayas. Anand also endeavors to master the arts of the Brotherhood, while he is staying there. However, this plan is rudely interrupted when Anand discovers that a mysterious, evil force has stolen the conch, which provides magical power to his Himalayan home. Now Anand, and his friend Nisha must make every attempt to recover the stolen conch in order to restore power to Anand’s home. This marks their adventurous journey into the mysterious and forbidden Shadowland.
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400032792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In nine poignant stories spiked with humor and intelligence, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni captures lives at crossroad moments–caught between past and present, home and abroad, tradition and fresh experience. A widow in California, recently arrived from India, struggles to adapt to a world in which neighbors are strangers and her domestic skills are deemed superfluous in the award-winning “Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter.” In “The Intelligence of Wild Things,” a woman from Sacramento visits her brother in Vermont to inform him that back in Calcutta their mother is dying. And in the title story, a painter looks to ancient myth and the example of her grandmother for help in navigating her first real crisis of faith. Knowing, compassionate and expertly rendered, the stories in The Unknown Errors of Our Lives depict the eternal struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the allure of change.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1400032792
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
In nine poignant stories spiked with humor and intelligence, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni captures lives at crossroad moments–caught between past and present, home and abroad, tradition and fresh experience. A widow in California, recently arrived from India, struggles to adapt to a world in which neighbors are strangers and her domestic skills are deemed superfluous in the award-winning “Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter.” In “The Intelligence of Wild Things,” a woman from Sacramento visits her brother in Vermont to inform him that back in Calcutta their mother is dying. And in the title story, a painter looks to ancient myth and the example of her grandmother for help in navigating her first real crisis of faith. Knowing, compassionate and expertly rendered, the stories in The Unknown Errors of Our Lives depict the eternal struggle to find a balance between the pull of home and the allure of change.
One Amazing Thing
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401394957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
An acclaimed novel by the author of The Mistress of Spices, and Before We Visit the Goddess. Jhumpa Lahiri praises: "One Amazing Thing collapses the walls dividing characters and cultures; what endures is a chorus of voices in one single room." Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11. A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption. A Chinese grandmother with a secret past. And two visa office workers on the verge of an adulterous affair. When an earthquake rips through the afternoon lull, trapping these nine characters together, their focus first jolts to their collective struggle to survive. There's little food. The office begins to flood. Then, at a moment when the psychological and emotional stress seems nearly too much for them to bear, the young graduate student suggests that each tell a personal tale, "one amazing thing" from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness of human expression itself. From Chitra Divakaruni, author of such finely wrought, bestselling novels as Sister of My Heart, The Palace of Illusions, and The Mistress of Spices, comes her most compelling and transporting story to date. One Amazing Thing is a passionate creation about survival -- and about the reasons to survive.
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 1401394957
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
An acclaimed novel by the author of The Mistress of Spices, and Before We Visit the Goddess. Jhumpa Lahiri praises: "One Amazing Thing collapses the walls dividing characters and cultures; what endures is a chorus of voices in one single room." Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11. A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption. A Chinese grandmother with a secret past. And two visa office workers on the verge of an adulterous affair. When an earthquake rips through the afternoon lull, trapping these nine characters together, their focus first jolts to their collective struggle to survive. There's little food. The office begins to flood. Then, at a moment when the psychological and emotional stress seems nearly too much for them to bear, the young graduate student suggests that each tell a personal tale, "one amazing thing" from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness of human expression itself. From Chitra Divakaruni, author of such finely wrought, bestselling novels as Sister of My Heart, The Palace of Illusions, and The Mistress of Spices, comes her most compelling and transporting story to date. One Amazing Thing is a passionate creation about survival -- and about the reasons to survive.
The Vine of Desire
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 038549730X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The beloved characters of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s bestselling novel Sister of My Heart are reunited in this powerful narrative that challenges the emotional bond between two lifelong friends, as the husband of one becomes dangerously attracted to the other. Anju and Sudha formed an astounding, almost psychic connection during their childhood in India. When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her. As Sunil’s attraction rises to the surface, the trio must struggle to make sense of the freedoms of America–and of the ties that bind them to India and to one another.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 038549730X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The beloved characters of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s bestselling novel Sister of My Heart are reunited in this powerful narrative that challenges the emotional bond between two lifelong friends, as the husband of one becomes dangerously attracted to the other. Anju and Sudha formed an astounding, almost psychic connection during their childhood in India. When Anju invites Sudha, a single mother in Calcutta, to come live with her and her husband, Sunil, in California, Sudha foolishly accepts, knowing full well that Sunil has long desired her. As Sunil’s attraction rises to the surface, the trio must struggle to make sense of the freedoms of America–and of the ties that bind them to India and to one another.
The Palace of Illusions
Author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307472493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Taking us back to a time that is half history, half myth and wholly magical, bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni gives voice to Panchaali, the fire-born heroine of the Mahabharata, as she weaves a vibrant retelling of an ancient epic saga. Married to five royal husbands who have been cheated out of their father's kingdom, Panchaali aids their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war. But she cannot deny her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna—or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy—as she is caught up in the ever-manipulating hands of fate.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307472493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Taking us back to a time that is half history, half myth and wholly magical, bestselling author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni gives voice to Panchaali, the fire-born heroine of the Mahabharata, as she weaves a vibrant retelling of an ancient epic saga. Married to five royal husbands who have been cheated out of their father's kingdom, Panchaali aids their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war. But she cannot deny her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna—or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy—as she is caught up in the ever-manipulating hands of fate.