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Corker's Freedom (Vintage In...John BergerThis is the new edition of Booker prize winning author’s classic third novel. |
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Art and Activism in Arundhar...Shibu Simon
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Roy ventured into the realm of art with her debut novel The God of Small Things. She brought laurels to the country by winning the coveted Booker Prize in 1997 when India celebrated her 50th anniversary of Independence. Roy is the first non… more |
Art and Activism in Arundhari Roy:A Critical Study based on Spivak’s Theory of Subalternity |
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Once in EuropaJohn BergerA luminous collection of interwoven stories, Once in Europa is a portrait of two worlds−a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it−at their moment of collision. Th… more |
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The People's Act of LoveJames MeekLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005. 1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of the Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. Then Samarin arrives. Appearing… more |
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Pig Earth (Vintage International)John BergerWith this haunting first volume of his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of ske… more |
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Life of PiYann MartelWINNER OF THE 2002 BOOKER PRIZE After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-ut… more |
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Bullfighting: StoriesRoddy Doyle“[No one] can match Doyle for the fluency with which he tacks back and forth between the hilarious and the heartbreaking.” —The New York Times Book ReviewRoddy Doyle has won acclaim for his wry wit, his uncanny ear, and his remarkable abili… more |
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The Red Cockatoo: James Kelm...Mitch Miller, Johnny RodgerThe Red Cockatoo is the first full length study of the work of James Kelman to take full cognisance of the author’s political commitments and activism throughout his career. This book is published in partnership with The Drouth Magazine and… more |
The Red Cockatoo: James Kelman and the art of commitment |
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The Siege of Krishnapur (New...J.G. FarrellWinner of the Booker Prize. India, 1857—the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject of J. G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur, widely co… more |
The Siege of Krishnapur (New York Review Books Classics) |
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G.: A Novel (Vintage International)John BergerIn this luminous novel — winner of Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize — John Berger relates the story of “G.,” a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound compassion, Berg… more |
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The Torture Garden (with an ...Octave Mirbeau
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Novelist and critic Tom McCarthy, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of ‘C’, introduces Octave Mirbeau’s classic ‘The Torture Garden’.Once described as “the most sickening work of art of the nineteenth century”, Mirbeau’s sensual and disturbin… more |
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Mezzaterra: Fragments from t...Ahdaf SoueifFrom the bestselling author of the Booker Prize finalist The Map of Love–an incisive collection of essays on Arab identity, art, and politics that seeks to locate the mezzaterra, or common ground, in an increasingly globalized world.The twe… more |
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Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie...Peter CareyThe Booker Prize-winning novel—now a major motion picture from Fox Searchlight Pictures.This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For… more |
Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition (Vintage International) |
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Instant in the WindAndre BrinkThe year is 1749, when the Boers ruled South Africa. And so it has come to his Baas’s final command to his Hottentot slave Adam, to flog his mother, because she refuses to prune the master’s vineyard in order to attend her own beloved mothe… more |
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Vintage ByattA.S. ByattFabulist, realist, critic, and winner of the Booker Prize for her now-classic novel Possession, A. S. Byatt has boundless intellectual and literary gifts and a fathomless imagination on which to nourish them. Her novels, stories, and essays… more |
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The Line of BeautyAlan Hollinghurst
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“One can’t get enough of Hollinghurst’s sentences…If you value style, wit, and social satire in your reading, don’t miss this elegant and passionate novel.”—Washington Post Winner of 2004’s Man Booker Prize for fiction and one of the most… more |
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The Cost of Living (Modern L...Arundhati RoyFrom the bestselling author of The God of Small Things comes a scathing and passionate indictment of big government’sdisregard for the individual.In her Booker Prize-winning novel, The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy turned a compassiona… more |
The Cost of Living (Modern Library Paperbacks) |
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A House UnlockedPenelope LivelyIn A House Unlocked, Whitbread Award- and Booker Prize-winning Penelope Lively takes us on a journey of her familial country house in England that her grandparents bought in 1923. As her narrative shifts from room to room, object to object,… more |
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The Unusual Life of Tristan ...Peter CareyThe Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The Tax Inspector now gives readers a hero, the malformed but ferociously wilful Tristan Smith, who becomes the object of the world’s byzantine political intrigues, even as he attains… more |
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (Vintage International) |
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Ragnarok: The End of the God...A.S. ByattBooker Prize winner Dame Antonia Byatt breathes life into the Ragnorak myth, the story of the end of the gods in Norse mythology. Ragnarok retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the en… more |
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