Tranquility to Turmoil - a study on The Women Characters in the Select Novels of Anita Desai and JhumpaLahiri
Title | Tranquility to Turmoil - a study on The Women Characters in the Select Novels of Anita Desai and JhumpaLahiri PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. R. MALCOLM |
Publisher | Lulu Publication |
Pages | 185 |
Release | |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1365464563 |
Comparing the Literatures
Title | Comparing the Literatures PDF eBook |
Author | David Damrosch |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2022-02-08 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0691234558 |
Paperback reprint. Originally published: 2020.
In the Country of Deceit
Title | In the Country of Deceit PDF eBook |
Author | Shashi Deshpande |
Publisher | Penguin UK |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2009-06-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9352140885 |
Why did I do it? Why did I enter the country of deceit? What took me into it? I hesitate to use the word love, but what other word is there?' Devayani chooses to live alone in the small town of Rajnur after her parents' death, ignoring the gently voiced disapproval of her family and friends. Teaching English, creating a garden and making friends with Rani, a former actress who settles in the town with her husband and three children, Devayani's life is tranquil, imbued with a hard-won independence. Then she meets Ashok Chinappa, Rajnur's new District Superintendent of Police, and they fall in love despite the fact that Ashok is much older, married, and-as both painfully acknowledge from the very beginning-it is a relationship without a future. Deshpande's unflinching gaze tracks the suffering, evasions and lies that overtake those caught in the web of subterfuge. There are no hostages taken in the country of deceit; no victors; only scarred lives. This understated yet compassionate examination of the nature of love, loyalty and deception establishes yet again Deshpande's position as one of India's most formidable writers of fiction
The Binding Vine
Title | The Binding Vine PDF eBook |
Author | Shashi Deshpande |
Publisher | The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2002-09-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 155861785X |
“There can be no vaulting over time,” thinks Urmila, the narrator of Shashi Deshpande’s profound and soul-stirring novel. “We have to walk every step of the way, however difficult or painful it is; we can avoid nothing.” After the death of her baby, Urmila finds her own path difficult to endure. But through her grief, she is drawn into the lives of two very different women—one her long-dead mother-in-law, a thwarted writer, the other a young woman who lies unconscious in a hospital bed. And it is through these quiet, unexpected connections that Urmi begins her journey toward healing. The miracle of The Binding Vine, and of Shashi Deshpande's deeply compassionate vision, is that out of this web of loss and despair emerge strand of life and hope—a binding vine of love, concern, and connection that spreads across chasms of time, social class, and even death. In moving and exquisitely understated prose, Deshpande renders visible the extraordinary endurance and grace concealed in women's everyday lives.
Roots and shadows
Title | Roots and shadows PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Adams |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 196 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780001061682 |
A Married Woman
Title | A Married Woman PDF eBook |
Author | Manju Kapur |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2014-05-20 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1480484539 |
A woman in an arranged marriage is liberated by a desire that threatens her family and future An only child raised to become a dutiful wife, Astha is filled with unnamed longings and untapped potential. In the privacy of her middle-class Indian home, she dreams of the lover who will touch her soul. But her future was mapped out long ago: betrothal to a man with impeccable credentials, with motherhood to follow. At first, Astha’s arranged union with handsome, worldly Hemant brings her great joy and passion. But even after bearing him a son and daughter, she remains unfulfilled. Her search for meaning takes her into a world of art and activism . . . and a relationship that could bring her the love and freedom she desires. But at what cost to her marriage and family?
Unaccustomed Earth
Title | Unaccustomed Earth PDF eBook |
Author | Jhumpa Lahiri |
Publisher | Random House India |
Pages | 279 |
Release | 2013-09-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 8184004842 |
The stories of Unaccustomed Earth focus on second-generation immigrants making and remaking lives, loves and identities in England and America. We follow brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, friends and lovers, in stories that take us from Boston and London to Bombay and Calcutta. Blending the individual and the generational, the exotic and the strikingly mundane, these haunting, exquisitely detailed and emotionally complex stories are intensely compelling elegies of life, death, love and fate. This is a dazzling work from a masterful writer.