The love story is the background in which the author cooks a tragic tale of separation. The journey of the narrator takes us towards finding the answer to one of the most difficult questions in human life – how to cope up with the loss of a loved one?
A loony professor and genetics researcher working on Asperger’s, Don Tillman, realizes in his late thirties that the missing link in his lifeline is a better half. And he does take the ‘better’ quite seriously. After all you don’t simply go ahead and fall in love with a random individual; these matters are of high evolutionary and scientific consequence to our charming chap. Thus he sets out to find the perfect lady love, with a standard questionnaire in hand to eliminate wrong mate choices, and a head ready to reel in love.
In terms of number of attendees, there was no doubt as to who were the winners: Shobha De and Ashwin Sanghi. These are both writers who know how to package themselves.
Author: Mahasweta Devi
Translated by: Anjum Katyal
Publisher: Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
Year: 2005
ISBN: 9788170462910
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“After Kurukshetra” is a collection of three stories, each of which centers around women in the aftermath of the Kurukshetra war from the Mahabharat. Read it to gain new and surprising perspectives on this famous episode in Indian history.
Author: Chetan Bhagat
Publisher: Rupa & Co.
Year: 2009
ISBN: 9788129115300
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A love story between North and South, Chetan Bhagat's 2 States is an easy, entertaining read.
In country like India, a love affair converted into marriage is no less than a battle won. When the two halves of the couple are from two opposite regions, things are set to get tricky. Chetan Bhagat’s fourth novel, 2 States, revolves around this theme – way before Chennai Express was in the works!
Author: Marie Lu
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Year: 2011
ISBN: 9780142422076
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Legend is a young adult dystopian debut novel by a Chinese- American author, Marie Lu. It is the first book in the trilogy and will be followed by Prodigy and Champion. The story is told from two alternating points of view: June who is a 15 year old Nobel citizen ,who has a perfect score in her trial exam and is trying to avenge her brother’s death, and Day who is also 15 but is a notorious criminal who is only trying to survive after escaping death. In my opinion, he should get the award for the most tortured YA hero! They are born on opposite sides of an ongoing war in a futuristic Los Angeles in the Republic of America.
Preeti Shenoy has come a long way since being 'just a mother of two'. (Before irate homemakers-by-choice jump down our throat, let us hasten to clarify: that's the name she called her blog by! It's currently called, 'Much Love'.)
Fans of Swedish crime fiction can look forward to a treat in Johan Theorin’s Echoes from the Dead. It has all the requisite criteria of a gripping thriller. A story stretched across time and an eerie atmosphere all infuses a timeless tale of betrayal and deceit. Add to it the setting: the island of Oland set in the Baltic Sea. Unsurprisingly, the island has its fair share of tales of strange happenings.
Author: Piyush Jha
Publisher: Rupa Publications India
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9788129124272
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Bollywood director Piyush Jha’s new crime novel, Compass Box Killer, targets casual readers and appears to be adapted straight from a typical Bollywood masala thriller – ample pulpiness enmeshed in the broad canvas of crime, suspense, romance and revenge.
Is Rushdie pandering to modern crass commercialism? Or is Franzen an old-fashioned fogey?