All about the Mumbai International Literary Festival, held between 14th-17th November at NCPA Mumbai.
Author: J K Rowling
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Year: 1991-2007
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A multi-person review of the Harry Potter series. Read positive and negative reviews of the series.
Kavita Kane is a senior journalist and the author of Karna’s wife. Read her interview with Indiabookstore about her first novel Karna’s wife.
Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Random House India
Year: 1995
ISBN: 9780749396657
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Journey to Ithaca does not soar to the heights we expect from Anita Desai. While the language and atmosphere are spot on, the plot lets the book down.
Piyush Jha is a filmmaker and a screen writer of Indian Origin. He is also the author of best seller crime thriller novel Mumbaistan.
Booker fever has started! On October 15, a panel of judges will choose the best of English language fiction, from a list that has been called the best in a decade. The competition is tough! Which of these novels are you rooting for? Who will win the Man Booker 2013 prize?
Author: Eleanor Catton
Publisher: Granta
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9781847084316
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It is these devices that make us realize what Catton is attempting (and succeeds at): redefining the genre, kneading and tweaking it, and teasing us at the same time, while holding us in her thrall – in a ‘real’ novel written in Victorian England, the judge’s well-meant, hypocritical euphemisms would likely be used by the author himself.
Sudeep Nagarkar is an Indian author, and speaker. He has a degree in Electronics Engineering from Mumbai. He is the author of the best seller Few things left Unsaid. An Electronics Engineer turned author, Sudeep talks with IndiaBookStore at the Pune fest!
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.