Author: Anne Cherian Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393068668 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 384
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"An absorbing tale of contrasts…Cherian tells the story with quiet strength." —San Francisco Chronicle Handsome anesthesiologist Neel is sure he can resist his family’s pleas that he marry a "good" Indian girl. With a girlfriend and a career back in San Francisco, the last thing Neel needs is an arranged marriage. But that’s precisely what he gets. His bride, Leila, a thirty-year-old teacher, comes with her own complications. They struggle to reconcile their own desires with others’ expectations in this story of two people, two countries, and two ways of life that may be more compatible than they seem.
Author: Ajay Pandey Publisher: Sristhi Publishers & Distributors ISBN: 9382665544 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 248
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Ajay believes in living for himself; Bhavna teaches him to live for others. Ajay is a planner for life; Bhavna makes him live in every moment. You are the Best Wife is a story of two people with contradictory ideologies who fall in love. It changes them for good. It changes the way they look at the world and the way the world looks at them. Until destiny reveals its plans. This is a true inspiring story of the author and his struggle with life, after his beloved wife left him halfway through their journey. But her last words, ‘you are the best husband’ gave him the strength to live on, and fulfil his promise of love. Told with frankness and doses of humor, this heartwarming tale of a boy and a girl who never gave up on their love in face of adversities, ends on a bittersweet and poignant note as Ajay comes to terms with the biggest lesson life has to offer.
Author: Padma Desai Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262019973 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 277
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The brave and moving memoir of a woman's journey of transformation: from a sheltered Indian upbringing to success and academic eminence in America. Padma Desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of Surat, India, where she had a sheltered and strict upbringing in a traditional Gujarati Anavil Brahmin family. Her academic brilliance won her a scholarship to Bombay University, where the first heady taste of freedom in the big city led to tragic consequences—seduction by a fellow student whom she was then compelled to marry. In a failed attempt to end this disastrous first marriage, she converted to Christianity. A scholarship to America in 1955 launched her on her long journey to liberation from the burdens and constraints of her life in India. With a growing self-awareness and transformation at many levels, she made a new life for herself, met and married the celebrated economist Jagdish Bhagwati, became a mother, and rose to academic eminence at Harvard and Columbia. How did she navigate the tumultuous road to assimilation in American society and culture? And what did she retain of her Indian upbringing in the process? This brave and moving memoir—written with a novelist's skill at evoking personalities, places, and atmosphere, and a scholar's insights into culture and society, community, and family—tells a compelling and thought-provoking human story that will resonate with readers everywhere.
Author: Samra Zafar Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 1443454877 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 392
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Despite facing years of abuse after arriving in Canada as a teenage bride in a hastily arranged marriage, nothing could stop Samra Zafar from pursuing her dreams At fifteen, Samra Zafar lives with her family in Pakistan and has big dreams: she will go to university and forge her own path in the world. Then, with almost no warning, her dreams evaporate when her parents arrange her marriage to a stranger in Canada. Her new husband and his family promise that the marriage and the move will be a fulfillment of her dreams. But as the walls of Zafar’s new home slowly become a prison, she realizes how deeply she has been betrayed. Desperate to get out and refusing to give up, she hatches an escape plan for herself and her two daughters. Somehow, she finds the strength to not only build a new future, but also to walk away from her past, ignoring the pleas of her family and risking cultural isolation by divorcing her husband. A Good Wife tells Zafar’s harrowing and inspiring story, following her from a young girl with big dreams to a woman who finds strength in the face of oppression and battles through to empowerment.
Author: Anne Cherian Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393081605 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
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Vikram, a successful first-generation Indian immigrant, invites three of his college friends to his son's graduation from MIT--an event where real life collides with unmet expectations.
Author: E.B. Moore Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0698157737 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 336
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Not all journeys come to an end.... 1867. Ruth Holtz has more blessings than she can count—a loving husband, an abundant farm, beautiful children, and the warm embrace of the Amish community. Then, the English arrive, spreading incredible stories of free land in the West and inspiring her husband to dream of a new life in Idaho. Breaking the rules of their Order, Ruth’s husband packs up his pregnant wife and their four children and joins a wagon train heading west. Though Ruth is determined to keep separate from the English, as stricture demands, the harrowing journey soon compels her to accept help from two unlikely allies: Hortence, the preacher’s wife, and the tomboyish, teasing Sadie. But as these new friendships lead to betrayal, what started as a quest for a brighter future ends with Ruth making unthinkable sacrifices, risking faith and family, and transforming into a woman she never imagined she’d become….
Author: Saumya Dave Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1984806157 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 401
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A Lilly's Library Book Club Pick! “A sparkling debut.”—Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author From a compelling new voice in women's fiction comes a mother-daughter story about three generations of women who struggle to define themselves as they pursue their dreams. Simran Mehta has always felt harshly judged by her mother, Nandini, especially when it comes to her little "writing hobby." But when a charismatic and highly respected journalist careens into Simran's life, she begins to question not only her future as a psychologist, but her engagement to her high school sweetheart. Nandini Mehta has strived to create an easy life for her children in America. From dealing with her husband's demanding family to the casual racism of her patients, everything Nandini has endured has been for her children's sake. It isn’t until an old colleague makes her a life-changing offer that Nandini realizes she's spent so much time focusing on being the Perfect Indian Woman, she’s let herself slip away. Mimi Kadakia failed her daughter, Nandini, in ways she'll never be able to fix—or forget. But with her granddaughter, she has the chance to be supportive and offer help when it's needed. As life begins to pull Nandini and Simran apart, Mimi is determined to be the bridge that keeps them connected, even as she carries her own secret burden.
Author: J. K. Gladstone Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781973999232 Category : Languages : en Pages : 162
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Most of us normal people will have serious issues if our spouses slept with other people. For many, such things are alluring but when they actually try it, one or the other can't handle it and it takes a long time to recover. The primary reason people stay together is because they love and want each other, not others. When you introduce another, this no longer holds true and the fall out is inevitable. My beloved wife Mahima is the story of a married couple Rajesh and Mahima. Rajesh is sending conflicting signals to his young wife Mahima. Unknowingly pushing her closer to that threshold of their marriage wherein for her own pleasure she is tempted cross the line. It seems circumstances will push her across the line with or preferably without Rajesh's approval or knowledge. Is Mahima going to like it so much that she go for another taste and becomes enthralled by the experience since Rajesh can't give her that kind of pleasure. The wild ride of voyeuristic indulgence by a confused and perverted Rajesh and his beautiful wife Mahima who is equally confused by these crazy games he insists on playing despite knowing that he really can't and wouldn't be able to handle the consequences if temptation and a strong, dominant man like Karan takes control of her. Karan is a big guy, muscular, Greek God, runs a gym, so obviously a lot of women will be interested in him. But women don't just want muscles and after a time they move on, except for his wife Neha who seemed to have clicked with him. How many other women has he had during his marriage? With two kids to look after Neha is a typical Mum. So, Karan looks for glamour pusses while she looks after the kids. As they say the grass is always greener on the other side... and Rajesh is forcing his wife Mahima to go and taste it. With a guy like Karan, well-built and good looking, wifeless with kid, all her motherliness in helping him will easily lead to his cock. Rajesh's fantasies end up frustrating her and Karan will provide what she needs. Then bye bye dear hubby. You can only enjoy so much in wifey voyeurism and when you need a real fuck, she's not going to be interested because he wasn't man enough to keep her properly fucked up... only interested in getting other guys to heat her up. Rajesh has ended up making her lust after other men and in sexual pleasure there is no turning back. He only wanted to see her fucked by other men (including Karan of course since he became super-heated when Mahima told him the episode), not end up being a wife substitute to Karan. And the humiliation and mockery will probably start.
Author: Ratika Kapur Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1408873664 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 265
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Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multi-nationals, life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an uncommonly self-possessed stranger at a Metro station. Because while Mrs Sharma may espouse traditional values, India is changing all around her, and it wouldn't be the end of the world if she came out of her shell a little, would it? With equal doses of humour and pathos, The Private Life of Mrs Sharma is a sharp-eyed examination of the clashing of tradition and modernity, from a dramatic new voice in Indian fiction.
Author: Meena Kandasamy Publisher: Europa Editions ISBN: 1609456009 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 161
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The widely acclaimed novel of an abused woman in India and her fight for freedom: “A triumph.” —The Guardian Named a Best Book of the Year by the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, and the Observer Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize Shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize Based on the author’s own experience, When I Hit You follows the narrator as she falls in love with a university professor and agrees to be his wife. Soon, the newlywed experiences extreme violence at her husband’s hands and finds herself socially isolated. Yet hope keeps her alive. Writing becomes her salvation, a supreme act of defiance, in a harrowing yet fierce and funny novel that not only examines one woman’s battle against terror and loneliness but reminds us how fiction and stories can help us escape.
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