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 Tamarind Woman (Ballantine Reader's Circle)Best Price: $4.97 Badami creates mood and vision with musical, poetic prose and is able to draw the reader into... |  Book of RachelBest Price: $8.25 IN Book of Rachel, Esther David continues the story of India's Bene Israel Jews -- this time in... |  The Walled City (Library of Modern Jewish Literature)Best Price: $19.95 Evocative novel made up of vignettes that trace the arc of the life of a Jewish girl growing up... |  Imaginary MapsBest Price: $11.95 Spivak presents a collection of three of Devi's stories. Devi, a journalist and "organic... |  DaddyjiBest Price: $7.00 DADDYJI is Ved Mehta's autobiography dealing primarily with his father, Amolak Ram Mehta, senior... |
 Questioning Ramayanas: A South Asian TraditionBest Price: $19.50 If you want a good commentary on the Ramayana, Richman's Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a... |  Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South AsiaBest Price: $80.00 A grand synthesis of unprecedented scope, Literary Cultures in History is the first... |  The Red CarpetBest Price: $6.99 What a surprise! I chose this book hoping to find something that would help me better... |  The Language of the Gods in the World of Men: Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India (Philip E. Lilienthal Books)Best Price: $55.86 In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of... |  The Point of Return: A NovelBest Price: $2.00 It is an unfortunate aspect of our culture that novels by South Asian authors are so often... |
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 When Memory DiesBest Price: $10.41 Sivanandan's book is a vivid telling of three generations of a Sri Lankan Tamil family and of... |  A Black Englishman: A NovelBest Price: $4.49 The author's descriptions intice you to see and smell all that is experienced. Thought the... |  Three Plays: Procession, Bhoma, Stale News |  Blood Into Ink: South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write WarBest Price: $32.00 "These writings on war by Middle Eastern and South Asian women are passionate, bitter, and... |  Operation Monsoon: StoriesBest Price: $5.96 I enjoyed this collection immensely. The stories are not quite short--about 50 pages each, more... |
 The Alchemy of DesireBest Price: $3.00 Yes, it could have benefited from some editing and yes, it did drag a bit a third of the way... | ||||
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