by Jeanne E. Fredriksen | Feb 20, 2018 | Books
The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey. Soho Crime/Soho Press, Inc.: New York. 400 pages. Hardcover. Also available as a digital book. Sujata Massey, the award-winning author of the Rei Shimura mystery series, The Sleeping Dictionary (IC, Sept. 2014), and India...
by Jeanne E. Fredriksen | Jan 11, 2018 | Books
From the award-winning author of An Obedient Father (2001 Hemingway Foundation PEN Award) and Family Life (2014 New York Times Best Books of the Year; 2015 Folio Prize; and 2016 International DUBLIN Literary Award), comes a collection of short stories that entertains...
by Pavani Kaushik | Dec 14, 2017 | Books
It would not be an exaggeration if he were cited to be one of the most influential writers in India at the present time. His personal story is an example of reinvention. His love of history and Hindu theology started in childhood, interacting with his grandfather, a...
by Jeanne E. Fredriksen | Nov 29, 2017 | Books
WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI by Sandhya Menon. Simon Pulse (Simon & Shuster): New York. 384 pages. $17.99 hardcover. Also available as a digital book and Audible. Girl has goal (break the glass ceiling in the world of coding without “IIH” distractions). Boy has goal...
by Samantha Rajaram | Nov 18, 2017 | Books
THE LAST GODS OF INDOCHINE by Samuel Ferrer. 422 pages. Signal 8 Press. Also available as a Kindle ebook. I can’t recall when I first read Edward Said’s groundbreaking book Orientalism, which critiques the oversimplification and romanticizing of the East by colonizers...
by Jeanne E. Fredriksen | Sep 11, 2017 | Books
Murder Between the Lines by Radha Vatsal. Sourcebooks Landmark: Naperville, IL. 320 pages. sourcebooks.com. Radhavatal.com. Available in paperback and as a digital book. It’s 1915, before the United States entered what we now call World War I and became a superpower....
