Ghosh: 220 books

“A stunning novel” following two families—one British, one Bengali—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Sea of Poppies (The New Republic). Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh’s radiant second novel follows an English family and a Bengali family as their lives...

From the award-winning author of the bestselling epic Ibis trilogy comes a globetrotting, folkloric adventure novel about family and heritage Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one that turns Deen Datta’s world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors,...

This book is a collection of in-depth tutorials, selected from SitePoint's React Hub, that will guide you through some fun and practical projects. Along the way, you'll pick up lots of useful development tips. It contains: How to Create a Reddit Clone Using React and Firebase by Nirmalya...

Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and...

Shreya is a passionate and charismatic young girl who believes she can conquer the world. While she is close to making her dreams come true, something goes terribly wrong. Suddenly she finds herself trapped in a web of loneliness, murder, mystery, and hopelessness. She has to look for answers that...

"A Journey from Hell to Heaven" is an endeavor by Ajoy Ghosh, an Indian Author, to introduce a few people in our society. It is told that every human is different and every humans life unique. You will travel from Hell to Heaven when you will read their stories in this book. The author only...

[A]n excellent analytical study of a sensationally beautiful type of temple.... This work is not just art historical but embraces... religious studies, anthropology, history, and literature." —Catherine B. Asher [A]dvances our knowledge of... Bengali temple building practices, the complex...

Faceless The Only Way Out is a story of love and passion and we live it through the main characters, Shom and Raima. Theirs is a love story set in SoBo or South Bombay – Mumbai to be politically correct and it is played out against the backdrop of contemporary values, immense wealth and intrigue....

Gul, Reshma, Shahnaz, Jasmine, and a handful more are a bunch of women fueled by shiny hope and bound by compelling narratives. Shahnaz and Other Stories maps the lives of nine women from dramatically different worlds, each challenged by extraordinary circumstances. A young woman journeys across continents...

Critiquing the politics and dynamics of the transcultural poetics of reading literature, this book demonstrates an ambitious understanding of the concept of the poet across a wide range of traditions – Anglo-American, German, French, Arabic, Chinese, Sanskrit, Bengali, Urdu – and philosophies...

In Gentlemanly Terrorists, Durba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India. She reveals how so-called 'Bhadralok dacoits' used assassinations, bomb attacks, and armed robberies to accelerate the departure of the British from...

?A story that breaks the barriers of space and time? They all had the same question for Mukul: `Why didn?t you recognize us? And why did you look so dark?? Mukul was perplexed. The day had started as any other Sunday morning would, with him going out to meet his aunt, his friends and his mentor Noni...

È il settembre del 1838 quando una terribile burrasca si abbatte sulla Ibis, la goletta a due alberi della «Benjamin Brightwell Burnham» in viaggio verso Mauritius con il suo carico di «coolie», di «delinquenti». Come un uccello mitologico in balia del vento, con il bompresso come un grande...

Piya è appena arrivata a Canning, l'ultima fermata per i Sundarban, l' immenso arcipelago di isole che si stende fra il mare e le pianure del Bengala, dal fiume Hooghly fino alle rive del Meghna in Bangladesh. Secondo la leggenda, l'arcipelago è sorto il giorno in cui la treccia del dio Shiva si...