FICTION
Released: Oct. 5, 2011
Ghosh sets the second volume of his Ibis trilogy in 1838, appropriately enough, because at heart he's a 19th-century novelist with a sweeping vision of character and culture.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 11, 2011
"Despite some minor flaws, Ramachandran produces an exhilarating and at times funny text that invites discussion and experimentation."
Ramachandran (Psychology and Neurosciences/Univ. of California, San Diego;
A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness, 2005, etc.) sets his sights on explaining the neuroscience that underlies characteristics he considers unique to humans beings.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 19, 2010
"A work more narrative than reflective, but Naipaul's prose remains smooth, subtle, often silvery."
In this minor but engaging work, the Nobel Prize winner (
Magic Seeds, 2004, etc.) examines the supernatural and religious beliefs he discovered in six African nations.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 4, 2008
"A cautionary volume that stresses the need to educate, treat and create jobs."
Grim text and photographs depict an India very different from the booming economic superpower-in-training of contemporary myth.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 22, 2012
"Alternately sad, defiant, carefree and understated, this journey into a world hidden in plain sight is well worth taking."
A journalist ingratiates himself with a band of day laborers on the mean streets of Delhi, India.
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FICTION
Released: April 26, 2006
"Excellent stuff. Let's have Chatterjee's other novels, please."
A slacker seeks career success and sexual fulfillment in Chatterjee's 1988 first novel, since proclaimed a contemporary Indian classic.
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