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Before a big move, a little girl receives a handmade kurta from her Aaji, with two big pockets filled with small reminders of her grandparents, and she helps make two more kurtas for them, allowing the family to feel close despite the distance across a big ocean.
2) Edison
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Publisher
Third State Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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The unlikely star of Edison is Prem Kumar, the hapless youngest son of a titan of New Delhi industry. Obsessed with Hindi movies--what the world calls Bollywood--he is uninterested in joining the family business or marrying the spear-wielding heiress chosen by his father. He runs away to chase his filmmaking dreams in America, but his plans are immediately derailed. Instead, he finds himself crashing on a mattress and working at an Exxon gas station...
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Winner of the UK's Encore Award for best second novel, a lyrical story of a Bengali student at Oxford University who is caught in the complications of a love triangle. A young man arrives in Oxford and finds himself involved in relationships with two women, neither of which is destined for fulfillment. Interspersed between glimpses of students' lives and friendships are fragmentary memories of the narrator's parents, the death of his music teacher,...
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