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]]> 29570444 82 George Orwell 984415149X Suman 0 2019, 2025 4.33 1945
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]]> 188061720 320 George Orwell 9847762392 Suman 5 2025 4.62 1949
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]]> 190903120 64 Arthur Rimbaud 938117055X Suman 4 2025 4.00 1873
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]]> 210701166 Sanmatrananda Suman 0 currently-reading, 2025 4.17
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]]> 20985175
Authored by Kalkut aka Samaresh Bose, this travelogue narrates the author¡¯s experience of visiting the Kumbh-mela, the holy site of the confluence of three rivers, Ganga, Yamuna and Saraswati, at Prayag, where pilgrims bathe at a designated time of the year. According to Hindu mythology, the nectar of immortality, amrita, arising out of the churning of oceans by gods and asuras, was spilled from the pot, kumbh, in this location. The seekers believe that bathing in the confluence is a means to atonement or penance for past sins.

The narrator commences on this journey with the desire not to achieve atonement, but to learn about life, about people. He is amazed and inspired by every character he meets, whether it is his fellow passengers on the train, sadhus and devotees like Mahavir and Ramjidasi at the festival, or the family he shares a tent with.

Through the narrator¡¯s eyes, one is also able to discern the double standards of masses of people come together on the same journey, but are unable to leave behind their social prejudices, classist behaviour, their weakness for sensual pleasure, their addictions, their personal tragedies and sorrows¡ªall in the hope of God taking their pain away with one dip in the holy waters.]]> 302 Kalkut Suman 5 2014, 2025 4.40 1954
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???? ???? ???? ???????? ?? ???????????? ?????? ???? ???? ??????????? ??????? ?????? ¡®????¡¯ (seer) ??????? ???????? ???????? ???? ???????????? ??????? ????? ???? ?? ???? ???? ? ??????? ???? ? ?????????? ?????? ??? ???? ?????????? ¡®??????¡¯- ???? ???????? ???? ?????? ???? ????? ????? ???????? ?????????? ????? ? ?????????? ??????? ?????? ??? ?????? ???, ??? ????? ??? ?? ?????? ??????? ??? ???? ? ??? ????????? ????? ???? ?????? ??? ????? ????? ??? ?????? ??????? ?????????? ???????? ??????? ???? ???????, ????? ?????????????? ??????? ???? ??? ??????? ??????? ??? ?????? ????? ??????? ????? ??????? ??????? ???????? ????? ????????, ???? ?????????? ?????? ??????? ???????? ??????? ????? ????? ?????? ????? ??? ? ????? ??????? ??????? ??? ???? ¡®??? ??????????? ??????????¡¯ (the derangement of all the senses) ???? ???? ???? ?????? ??????? ????????? ???????? ?????????? ??? ????? ??????????? ????????? ????? ???????????? ?????? ??? ????, ???? ??? ???? ¡®??????¡¯?? ????? ?????? ?????????? ??????????? ????? ??? ?????? ???? ?????? ??? ?????????? ??? ??? ???, ?? ??????? ??? ?? ? ?????? ?????? ??????? ?????????? ???? ????????? ???? ????? ??????? ? ????????? ????? ?????????? ????????? ?????? ???? ????? ???????????? ?????? ???? ???? ???????? ??????? ???????? ?????? ? ?????????? ???? ????????? ?????????? ?????? ???????? ????????? ???? ?????????? ?????????? ??? ?????? ???? ???????? ???? ??? ???????????, ??????????? ??? ??????? ??? ????? ?????? ??? ????

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?????? ???????- ?????? ???? ??-?????, ?? ??????? ??????? ???? ????????; ?????? ??????-??????? ??-?????, ?? ??????? ???? ??????]]> 148 Malay Roy Choudhury Suman 0 2025, currently-reading 4.50 2021
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]]> 62021357 95 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9388123026 Suman 4 2025 3.75
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]]> 168496 ¨CEdward Hirsch

From Dante¡¯s Inferno to Sartre¡¯s No Exit, writers have been fascinated by visions of damnation. Within that rich literature of suffering, Arthur Rimbaud¡¯s A Season in Hell¨Cwritten when the poet was nineteen¨Cprovides an astonishing example of the grapple with self.

As a companion to Rimbaud¡¯s journey, readers could have no better guide than Wyatt Mason. One of our most talented young translators and critics, Mason¡¯s new version of A Season in Hell renders the music and mystery of Rimbaud¡¯s tale of Hell on Earth with exceptional finesse and power.

This bilingual edition includes maps, a helpful chronology of Rimbaud¡¯s life, and the unfinished suite of prose poems, Illuminations and A Season in Hell cement Rimbaud¡¯s reputation as one of the foremost, and most influential, writers in French literature.]]> 240 Arthur Rimbaud 0679643273 Suman 0 2025, currently-reading 4.29 1873
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]]> 17564205 Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay Suman 4 2025 3.50 1876
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]]> 93971971 Lekha O Kathar Sankalan 240 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 9388123034 Suman 0 2025, currently-reading 0.0
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]]> 59499102 0 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 938242511X Suman 5 2025 4.50
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]]> 38922145 Kalkut Suman 5 2025 4.80
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]]> 17229241 32 Friedrich Nietzsche Suman 0 2025, currently-reading 4.24 1873
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]]> 57667563 550 ???? ?????? Suman 5 2025 4.54
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Although untouchability was abolished in 1949, Dalits continued to face discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and ridicule. Valmiki shares his heroic struggle to survive a preordained life of perpetual physical and mental persecution and his transformation into a speaking subject under the influence of the great Dalit political leader, B. R. Ambedkar. A document of the long-silenced and long-denied sufferings of the Dalits, Joothan is a major contribution to the archives of Dalit history and a manifesto for the revolutionary transformation of society and human consciousness.]]> 152 Omprakash Valmiki Suman 4 2025 3.93 2015
author: Omprakash Valmiki
name: Suman
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2015
rating: 4
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Although untouchability was abolished in 1949, Dalits continued to face discrimination, economic deprivation, violence, and ridicule. Valmiki shares his heroic struggle to survive a preordained life of perpetual physical and mental persecution and his transformation into a speaking subject under the influence of the great Dalit political leader, B. R. Ambedkar. A document of the long-silenced and long-denied sufferings of the Dalits, Joothan is a major contribution to the archives of Dalit history and a manifesto for the revolutionary transformation of society and human consciousness.]]> 164 Omprakash Valmiki Suman 5 2025 4.45 1997
author: Omprakash Valmiki
name: Suman
average rating: 4.45
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rating: 5
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author: John Boyne
name: Suman
average rating: 4.14
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rating: 5
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]]> 28180642 95 Shahzad Firdaus 9848882154 Suman 5 2025 4.00 1999
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name: Suman
average rating: 4.00
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rating: 5
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date added: 2025/02/23
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???????????? ?????? ??? ?????? ? ?????????? ????????????? ???? ???? ??????? ????? ?????? ???? ????????? ??? ???? ?????? ????? ??? ??? ???? ???????? ???????? ????? ???? ?? ??? ?????? ?????? ???? ??, ???? ?????????? ????? ???????????? ??????? ???? ???????? ??????? ?? ??? ??? ????? ??????? ?????-- ??? ??????, ??? ???? ?? ????? ??????? ????? ??? ??? ?????????? ???? ??? ?????? ??? ????? ????? ???, ???? ?????? ?????? ??? ????, ???????? ?? ????????? ????? ???? ????]]> 247 Shahzad Firdaus Suman 5 2025 4.15 2014
author: Shahzad Firdaus
name: Suman
average rating: 4.15
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rating: 5
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]]> 83024028 226 9392343167 Suman 3 2025 3.50 2022
author: Debjyoti Bhattacharya, Gautam Gangopadhyay
name: Suman
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2022
rating: 3
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author: Shahzad Firdaus
name: Suman
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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]]> 199928404 ?
Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover.
? ? ?Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios and conmen, Ana journeys further each year into the hinterland of her desire and the fear hidden in her heart.
? ? ?Constantly surprising, joyously sensual, Until August is a profound meditation on freedom, regret, self-transformation, and the mysteries of love¡ªan unexpected gift from one of the greatest writers the world has ever known.]]> 144 Gabriel Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez 0593801997 Suman 3 2025 3.52 2024
author: Gabriel Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez
name: Suman
average rating: 3.52
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rating: 3
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]]> 53466059 My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and pressing dispatch from the heart of the crowd and the solitude of the writer's desk.

The chant of "Azadi!"¡ªUrdu for "Freedom!"¡ªis the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically, it also became the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism.

Even as Arundhati Roy began to ask what lay between these two calls for Freedom¡ªa chasm or a bridge?¡ªthe streets fell silent. Not only in India, but all over the world. The coronavirus brought with it another, more terrible understanding of Azadi, making a nonsense of international borders, incarcerating whole populations, and bringing the modern world to a halt like nothing else ever could.

In this series of electrifying essays, Arundhati Roy challenges us to reflect on the meaning of freedom in a world of growing authoritarianism.

The essays include meditations on language, public as well as private, and on the role of fiction and alternative imaginations in these disturbing times.

The pandemic, she says, is a portal between one world and another. For all the illness and devastation it has left in its wake, it is an invitation to the human race, an opportunity, to imagine another world.]]> 240 Arundhati Roy 1642592609 Suman 0 2025, currently-reading 4.09 2020
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name: Suman
average rating: 4.09
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A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of the human body. But mostly they observe. Together they watch their silent blue planet, circling it sixteen times, spinning past continents and cycling through seasons, taking in glaciers and deserts, the peaks of mountains and the swells of oceans. Endless shows of spectacular beauty witnessed in a single day.

Yet although separated from the world they cannot escape its constant pull. News reaches them of the death of a mother, and with it comes thoughts of returning home. They look on as a typhoon gathers over an island and people they love, in awe of its magnificence and fearful of its destruction.

The fragility of human life fills their conversations, their fears, their dreams. So far from earth, they have never felt more part - or protective - of it. They begin to ask, what is life without earth? What is earth without humanity?]]> 207 Samantha Harvey 0802161545 Suman 0 2025, currently-reading 3.55 2023
author: Samantha Harvey
name: Suman
average rating: 3.55
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]]> 52214465 334 Premendra Mitra Suman 0 2025, currently-reading 4.65
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name: Suman
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How did the Harappan civilization contribute to later Vedic and Tantrik thought?

Did the Harappans follow monastic ideals that later became part of Buddhism and Jainism?

Was their script like today's emojis, conveying ideas?

Why did they have images of rivalry but no images of war and no images of romance either?

Why did the cities disappear while the villages continued to flourish for some time?

An eventful century later, Devdutt Pattanaik uses the lens of mythology to reflect on this most mysterious of 'peaceful' civilizations, now spread across geographies in India and Pakistan. A medley of text and illustrations, Ahimsa draws attention to how much Harappan memory persists in our lives today.]]> 279 Devdutt Pattanaik 9365699037 Suman 0 2024, currently-reading, 2025 3.84
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??????????? ??????? ???????? ????????? ????, ???, ????, ?????????????? ???????????? ???????, ??????? ??????, ???????? ??????? ????? ?????, ????? ????????????????? ?????????????. ?????????? ?????????????? ???????? ??????? ??????? ???? ????? ???????? ???????? ??? ?????? ? ????????? ???. ?????? ????? ??????? ???????? ??????????? ?????? ???????????? ???????? ???????, ? ??????? ?????? ????? ???????? ???????????? ??????????????.

??? ???? ????????. ??? ??????????? ????? ??????? ?? ????? ????????? ?????????????. ? ???? ¡®????¡¯ ?????????????. ???????? ??? ???????????? ???????? ?????? ???????????. ?????? ????? ?????, ????? ??????? ??? ????. ??????? ????? ???????????. ????, ? ?????? ??????????????? ???? ????? ????????? ??? ?????? ???? ??????? ????. ????, ? ???? ???? ??????? ????????????????. ?????????????? ????? ?? ???? ??????? ???????? ???????? ????? ???? ??????????. ????? ?? ?????, ??????????? ???????? ????????? ? ???????? ??????????????????. ???? ???? ???????????. ???????? ??????? ????????? ???? ?????? ?????????????. ?????? ????? ????????, ???? ????? ???????? ??? ??????????????. ???? ???, ??????? ??? ???? ??????????????????? ?????? ???????????????. ??? ????????? ???????????????, ???? ???? ??????????. ??? ??????????. .

????, ???? ?????? ???? ?????????????. ??????? ?????? ????? ???????????????. ????, ?????? ??? ?????????????. ???? ??????, ????????????? ????????? ???? ????? ????? ???? ????????????. ¡®?????? ???????...???????¡¯ ???? ¡®???? ???????????? ??????¡¯ ???? ???????? ???????. ??????? ¡®????¡¯????? ???? ?????? ????????????. ????????????? ????? ??????? ???? ????????, ¡®????¡¯????? ??????????? ??? ???????????????? ??? ???????????? ??????? ????????????????. .]]> 112 Kota Shivarama Karanth Suman 5 2024 4.29 1978
author: Kota Shivarama Karanth
name: Suman
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1978
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/24
date added: 2024/12/24
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]]> 12483882 Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against "them" -- a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the reader a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.]]> 103 Osamu Dazai 1935548085 Suman 3 2024 4.02 1939
author: Osamu Dazai
name: Suman
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1939
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/13
date added: 2024/12/13
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]]> 62047992 The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading.

Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo, is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books.

Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and joy of her uncle Satoru, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoko left him five years earlier.

When Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above the shop. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the Morisaki bookshop.

As summer fades to autumn, Satoru and Takako discover they have more in common than they first thought. The Morisaki bookshop has something to teach them both about life, love, and the healing power of books.]]> 150 Satoshi Yagisawa 0063278677 Suman 3 2024 3.67 2010
author: Satoshi Yagisawa
name: Suman
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/10
date added: 2024/12/10
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]]> 44421460 What would you change if you could go back in time?

In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a caf¨¦ which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time.

In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the caf¨¦¡¯s time-travelling offer, in order to: confront the man who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory has been taken by early onset Alzheimer's, to see their sister one last time, and to meet the daughter they never got the chance to know.

But the journey into the past does not come without risks: customers must sit in a particular seat, they cannot leave the caf¨¦, and finally, they must return to the present before the coffee gets cold . . .

Toshikazu Kawaguchi¡¯s beautiful, moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time? More importantly, who would you want to meet, maybe for one last time?]]> 213 Toshikazu Kawaguchi 1529029589 Suman 4 2024 3.66 2015
author: Toshikazu Kawaguchi
name: Suman
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/18
date added: 2024/11/30
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]]> 62798 The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, celebrated Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima creates a haunting and vivid portrait of a young man¡¯s obsession with idealized beauty and his destructive quest to possess it fully.

Mizoguchi, an ostracized stutterer, develops a childhood fascination with Kyoto¡¯s famous Golden Temple. While an acolyte at the temple, he fixates on the structure¡¯s aesthetic perfection and it becomes the one and only object of his desire. But as Mizoguchi begins to perceive flaws in the temple, he determines that the only true path to beauty lies in an act of horrendous violence. Based on a real incident that occurred in 1950, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion brilliantly portrays the passions and agonies of a young man in postwar Japan, bringing to the subject the erotic imagination and instinct for the dramatic moment that marked Mishima as one of the towering makers of modern fiction. With an introduction by Donald Keene; Translated from the Japanese by Ivan Morris.

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

]]> 247 Yukio Mishima 0679433155 Suman 5 2024 4.04 1956
author: Yukio Mishima
name: Suman
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1956
rating: 5
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date added: 2024/11/30
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]]> 25191
His most personal book, A Personal Matter, is the story of Bird, a frustrated intellectual in a failing marriage whose utopian dream is shattered when his wife gives birth to a brain-damaged child.]]> 165 Kenzabur¨­ ?e 0802150616 Suman 4 2024 3.91 1964
author: Kenzabur¨­ ?e
name: Suman
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1964
rating: 4
read at: 2024/11/25
date added: 2024/11/25
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]]> 29602201 111 Haruki Murakami 984776235X Suman 3 2024 3.20 1979
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Suman
average rating: 3.20
book published: 1979
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/16
date added: 2024/11/16
shelves: 2024
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]]> 60422854 ???? ????? ????? ?????? ?? ?????? ?????? ??????? ?????? ??????? ?????? ? ?????
??????? ?????? ????? ?????? ????? ???????]]> 880 Edgar Allan Poe 819524436X Suman 0 2024, to-read 3.67 1992
author: Edgar Allan Poe
name: Suman
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1992
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/11/11
shelves: 2024, to-read
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]]> 17574849 The Guest Cat, by the acclaimed poet Takashi Hiraide, is a subtly moving and exceptionally beautiful novel about the transient nature of life and idiosyncratic but deeply felt ways of living. A couple in their thirties live in a small rented cottage in a quiet part of Tokyo; they work at home, freelance copy-editing; they no longer have very much to say to one another. But one day a cat invites itself into their small kitchen. It leaves, but the next day comes again, and then again and again. Soon they are buying treats for the cat and enjoying talks about the animal and all its little ways. Life suddenly seems to have more promise for the husband and wife ¡ª the days have more light and color. The novel brims with new small joys and many moments of staggering poetic beauty, but then something happens¡­.

As Kenzaburo Oe has remarked, Takashi Hiraide¡¯s work "really shines." His poetry, which is remarkably cross-hatched with beauty, has been acclaimed here for "its seemingly endless string of shape-shifting objects and experiences,whose splintering effect is enacted via a unique combination of speed and minutiae."]]> 140 Takashi Hiraide 0811221504 Suman 3 2024 3.60 2001
author: Takashi Hiraide
name: Suman
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2001
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/07
date added: 2024/11/07
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]]> 100442251 256 Krishandas Kaviraj 8126027215 Suman 5 2024 5.00
author: Krishandas Kaviraj
name: Suman
average rating: 5.00
book published:
rating: 5
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date added: 2024/11/04
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]]> 23128304
The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library, the book is like nothing else Murakami has written. Designed by Chip Kidd and fully illustrated in full color throughout, this small format, 96-page volume is a treat for book lovers of all ages.]]> 96 Haruki Murakami 0385354304 Suman 3 2024 3.58 2005
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Suman
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 2024/11/04
date added: 2024/11/04
shelves: 2024
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]]> 11299 147 Haruki Murakami Suman 5 2020, 2024 3.81 2000
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Suman
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/04
date added: 2024/11/04
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Marvelous experience, especially last three stories are really superb...
]]> 198187939
??? ?????? ???? ?????? ??, ?????? ??? ? ????????? ??????]]> 180 Y¨­ko Ogawa 938366097X Suman 4 2024 3.75 2003
author: Y¨­ko Ogawa
name: Suman
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/28
date added: 2024/10/28
shelves: 2024
review:

]]> 38389433 ???? ????? ????¡¯? ??? ??? ?????? ???? ???? ????? ?????????? ????? ?????? ?? ???, ?????? ????? ??¡¯??? ??? ????? ??????? ?????? ????? ????????? ?? ??? ???????? ?? ???????? ???? ???????? ???? ????? ???? ???? ??????? ????? ?????? ???????? ???? ?????? ????
???^?????? ???? ?????? ????????¡¯? ???? ¡®????? ?????¡¯ ?? ?????? ?????? ???????, ?????? ???????? ??????? ??? ??? ?????????? ?????? ??????? ?? ?????? ???? ??? ??????, ?????? ??? ???? ????? ?? ?????????? ????]]> 160 Haruki Murakami Suman 4 2024 3.58 2004
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Suman
average rating: 3.58
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/24
date added: 2024/10/24
shelves: 2024
review:

]]> 44228744
???????? ???????? ????????????? ???????? ???, ???? ?????? ????? ????? ?????]]> 64 Haruki Murakami 9843419782 Suman 4 3.28 2005
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Suman
average rating: 3.28
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at:
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]]> 25489025
Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman¡¯s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.]]> 188 Han Kang 0553448188 Suman 3 2024 3.61 2007
author: Han Kang
name: Suman
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2024/10/20
date added: 2024/10/20
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]]> 105189 106 Gabriel Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez Suman 5 3.85 1955
author: Gabriel Garc¨ªa M¨¢rquez
name: Suman
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1955
rating: 5
read at: 2018/05/28
date added: 2024/10/15
shelves:
review:
???? ????? ???????? ??? ????? ?? ???? ??????, ??? ???????? ????? ??? ????? ??? ??? ?? ????? ?????? ?? ???? ???? ??, ?? ?? ????? ???? ??? ?????? ???? ??????? ?????? ????? ??????????? ???? ????? ?????? ????? ??? ??? ???? ???? ????! ????? ????? ??? ?????? ???? ??? ??? ???? ???? ??? ???? ??? ?????? ??? ????? ???? ???????? ???? ????? ????? ????? ?????? ???? ??? ????? ?????? ????, ??? ?????, ??? ???, ??? ????? ????? ?? ????? ?????? ?????? ?? ??? ???? ???... ??? ????? ????? ????? ??? ?????? ????? ??? ???? ?????? ??? ????? ????? ????? ???, ?? ???? ??? ??????? ???, ????? ?? ??? ?????? ?????? ??? ????????? ??????? ????????? ??????? ?????? ??????? ?????? ??????? ???? ??? ?? ?? ??????? ????? ?????? ???? ????? ??????? ???????????? ?? ????? ??????? ???? ???? ??? ? ?? ?? ?????? ?????? ???...
]]> 14031 ]]> 262 Yasunari Kawabata 0374530491 Suman 4 2024 4.04 1971
author: Yasunari Kawabata
name: Suman
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1971
rating: 4
read at: 2024/10/02
date added: 2024/10/02
shelves: 2024
review:

]]> 13752 From the Nobel Prize-winning author and acclaimed writer of Thousand Cranes comes the luminous chronicle of a match of the Japanese game Go played between a master and a younger, more modern challenger that serves as a suspenseful elegy for an entire society.

Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other¡¯s black or white stones. Simple in its fundamentals, infinitely complex in its execution, Go is an essential expression of the Japanese spirit. And in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered and heretofore invincible Master and a younger, more modern challenger, Yasunari Kawabata captured the moment in which the immutable traditions of imperial Japan met the onslaught of the twentieth century.

The competition between the Master of Go and his opponent, Otak¨¦, is waged over several months and layered in ceremony. But beneath the game¡¯s decorum lie tensions that consume not only the players themselves but their families and retainers¡ªtensions that turn this particular contest into a duel that can only end in death. Luminous in its detail, both suspenseful and serene, The Master of Go is written with the poetic economy and psychological acumen that brought Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature.]]> 189 Yasunari Kawabata 0679761063 Suman 3 2024 3.87 1951
author: Yasunari Kawabata
name: Suman
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1951
rating: 3
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date added: 2024/09/30
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]]> 14032
In the title story, the protagonist visits a brothel where elderly men spend a chaste but lecherous night with a drugged, unconscious virgin. As he admires the girl's beauty, he recalls his past womanizing, and reflects on the relentless course of old age.

In One Arm, a young girl removes her right arm and gives it to the narrator to take home for the night; a surreal seduction follows as he tries to allay its fears, caresses it, and even replaces his own right arm with it.

The protagonist of Of Birds and Beasts prefers the company of his pet birds and dogs to people, yet for him all living beings are beautiful objects which, though they give him pleasure, he treats with casual cruelty.

Beautiful yet chilling, richly poetic yet subtly disturbing, these stories make compelling reading and reaffirm Kawabata s status as a world-class writer.]]> 148 Yasunari Kawabata 4770029756 Suman 5 2024 3.82 1961
author: Yasunari Kawabata
name: Suman
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1961
rating: 5
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]]> 83024
The Lake is the history of an obsession. It traces a man's sad pursuit of an unattainable perfection, a beauty out of reach, admired from a distance, unconsummated. Homeless, a fugitive from an ambiguous crime, his is an incurable longing that drives him to shadow nameless women in the street and hide in ditches as they pass above him, beautiful and aloof. For their beauty is not of this world, but of a dream--the voice of a girl he meets in a Turkish bath is "an angel's," the figures of two students he follows seem to "glide over the green grass that hid their knees." Reality is the durable ugliness that is his constant companion and is symbolized in the grotesque deformity of the hero's feet. And it is the irreconcilable nature of these worlds that explains the strangely dehumanized, shadowy quality of the eroticism that pervades this novel.

In a sense The Lake is a formless novel, a "happening," making it one of the most modern of all Kawabata's works. Just as the hero's interest might be caught by some passing stranger, so the course of the novel swerves abruptly from present to past, memory shades into hallucination, dreams break suddenly into daylight. It is an extraordinary performance of free association, made all the more astonishing for the skill with which these fragments are resolved within the completed tapestry.]]> 160 Yasunari Kawabata 4770030010 Suman 3 2024 3.71 1954
author: Yasunari Kawabata
name: Suman
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1954
rating: 3
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]]> 14030 A collection of twenty-three stories from one of the most influential figures in modern Japanese literature.

Yasunari Kawabata is widely known for his innovative short stories, some called ¡°palm-of-the-hand¡± stories short enough to fit into ones palm. This collection reflects Kawabata¡¯s keen perception, deceptive simplicity, and the deep melancholy that characterizes much of his work. The stories were written between 1923 and 1929, and many feature autobiographical events and themes that reflect the painful losses he experienced early in his life.]]> 176 Yasunari Kawabata 1887178945 Suman 3 2024 3.86 1926
author: Yasunari Kawabata
name: Suman
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1926
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/23
date added: 2024/09/23
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]]> 59950 Librarian's note: An alternate cover of this ISBN can be found here.

From the Nobel Prize-winning writer and acclaimed author of Snow Country comes a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age¡ªabout an elderly Tokyo businessman who must face the failures of his memory and the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate the end of a life.

¡°A rich, complicated novel¡­. Of all modern Japanese fiction, Kawabata¡¯s is the closest to poetry.¡± ¡ªThe New York Times Book Review

By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo businessman, is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby mountain with the sounds of death. In between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations of Shingo¡¯s life: his trying wife; his philandering son; and his beautiful daughter-in-law, who inspires in him both pity and the stirrings of desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments, Kawabata has crafted a novel that is a powerful, serenely observed meditation on the relentless march of time.

Translated from the Japanese by Edward G. Seidensticker]]> 276 Yasunari Kawabata 0679762647 Suman 3 2024 3.92 1954
author: Yasunari Kawabata
name: Suman
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1954
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/20
date added: 2024/09/20
shelves: 2024
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]]> 21950641 170 Sunil Gangopadhyay 8177565109 Suman 3 2024 4.20 2005
author: Sunil Gangopadhyay
name: Suman
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2005
rating: 3
read at: 2024/09/14
date added: 2024/09/14
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]]> 14029 The successful writer Oki has reached middle age and is filled with regrets. He returns to Kyoto to find Otoko, a young woman with whom he had a terrible affair many years before.

Otoko is now a painter, living with a younger woman as her lover. Otoko has continued to love Oki and has never forgotten him, but his return unsettles not only her but also her young lover.

This is a work of strange beauty, with a tender touch of nostalgia and a heartbreaking sensitivity to those things lost forever.]]> 206 Yasunari Kawabata 0679761055 Suman 5 2024 3.88 1964
author: Yasunari Kawabata
name: Suman
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1964
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/12
date added: 2024/09/12
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]]> 14027 here.

Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata¡¯s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.
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While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of his parents¡¯ deaths, Kikuji encounters his father¡¯s former mistress, Mrs. Ota. At first Kikuji is appalled by her indelicate nature, but it is not long before he succumbs to passion¡ªa passion with tragic and unforeseen consequences, not just for the two lovers, but also for Mrs. Ota¡¯s daughter, to whom Kikuji¡¯s attachments soon extend. Death, jealousy, and attraction convene around the delicate art of the tea ceremony, where every gesture is imbued with profound meaning.]]> 147 Yasunari Kawabata 0679762655 Suman 4 2024 3.76 1952
author: Yasunari Kawabata
name: Suman
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1952
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/07
date added: 2024/09/07
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]]> 14028 Snow Country is widely considered to be the writer's masterpiece, a powerful tale of wasted love set amid the desolate beauty of western Japan.

At an isolated mountain hot spring, with snow blanketing every surface, Shimamura, a wealthy dilettante meets Komako, a lowly geisha. She gives herself to him fully and without remorse, despite knowing that their passion cannot last and that the affair can have only one outcome. In chronicling the course of this doomed romance, Kawabata has created a story for the ages, a stunning novel dense in implication and exalting in its sadness.]]> 175 Yasunari Kawabata 0679761047 Suman 4 2024 3.63 1948
author: Yasunari Kawabata
name: Suman
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1948
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/04
date added: 2024/09/04
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]]> 15989094 Rabindranath Tagore Suman 5 2024 4.41 1910
author: Rabindranath Tagore
name: Suman
average rating: 4.41
book published: 1910
rating: 5
read at: 2024/08/26
date added: 2024/08/26
shelves: 2024
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]]> 44141216 ???????????? ????? Suman 3 2024 4.18
author: ???????????? ?????
name: Suman
average rating: 4.18
book published:
rating: 3
read at: 2024/08/11
date added: 2024/08/11
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]]> 11012 I regret to see that my book has turned out un fiasco solenne.' James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation in Ireland'.

Joyce's aim was to tell the truth ¡ª to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century and by rejecting euphemism, reveal to the Irish the unromantic reality the recognition of which would lead to the spiritual liberation of the country.

Each of the fifteen stories offers a glimpse of the lives of ordinary Dubliners ¡ª a death, an encounter, an opportunity not taken, a memory rekindled ¡ª and collectively they paint a portrait of a nation.]]> 352 James Joyce Suman 4 2024 3.86 1914
author: James Joyce
name: Suman
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1914
rating: 4
read at: 2024/08/01
date added: 2024/08/01
shelves: 2024
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]]> 18144590 The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations.

Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure. His quest will lead him to riches far different¡ªand far more satisfying¡ªthan he ever imagined. Santiago's journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, recognizing opportunity and learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, most importantly, following our dreams.]]> 182 Paulo Coelho 0062315005 Suman 5 2024 4.01 1988
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Suman
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1988
rating: 5
read at: 2024/07/19
date added: 2024/07/19
shelves: 2024
review:

]]> 29953582
?? ????????? ?????? ?????? ???? ???? ???? ???? ?????????? ? ??????? ??????????: ??????? ??? ??? ????! ??? ???? ??????, ????????? ????, ?????? ????? ??? ??? ????? ??????? ?????? ? ???-???? ???? ????, ???????]]> 536 Mikhail Sholokhov 5050028930 Suman 5 2021, 2022 4.44 1928
author: Mikhail Sholokhov
name: Suman
average rating: 4.44
book published: 1928
rating: 5
read at: 2021/12/17
date added: 2024/07/15
shelves: 2021, 2022
review:

]]> 123289476 ????? ???????? ????????? ??? ??????? ????? ??????? ????? ???? ????????? ????????? ????? ??? ??? ?????? ???????? ???? ??¡¯???? ?? ???? ????? ????????? ????? ????? ????? ???? ?? ???? ??? ???? ??????? ????? ?????? ?? ??? ???? ?????? ??????
?????? ???? ???? ????? ????, ??? ???? ?????? ???????? ????? ???? ?????? ??? ???, ???? ??????? ??? ??? ??????? ????? ?????? ?????? ??? ??? ??? ???????? ????? ?? ¡®??¡¯ ?? ¡®??????¡¯ ???, ??? ?????? ?? ????? ??????? ????? ??? ?? ¡®???¡¯ ????? ??? ??????? ???? ??? ???? ??? ????? ?????????? ???? ?? ????? ?????? ????, ??? ????? ????????? ??? ????? ?????? ???? ??? ?????? ?? ???? ?? ??? ????? ??? ??????, ????? ?????? ???????? ?? ???? ??????
¡®?????? ?? ???????? ????¡¯ ??? '????????? ?? ? ??????' ????? ??????? ????????? ???????? ??????? ???????????? ???? ????? '???????'? ?????? ??????? ????????? ????? ???? ???? ???????? ????????...]]> 256 Keigo Higashino Suman 5 2024 4.22 1996
author: Keigo Higashino
name: Suman
average rating: 4.22
book published: 1996
rating: 5
read at: 2024/07/15
date added: 2024/07/15
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]]> 42776736 "The Pyramid" which is a historic fiction book
about pyramids and paraohs. Ismail Kadare is an
Albanian novelist and poet. He was born in
1936. He won several prizes including "Booker"
prize for the book "The Pyramid".
Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped
masonry structures located in Egypt. Egyptian
Paraohs or Kings were placed inside the
pyramids after their death. Egyptian kings were
very cruel to the common people at that time.
They forced their people to build these huge
structures which is still a wonder to us.
Among all the pyramids, the Great Pyramids of
Giza are the largest and most magnificent. It
was built for Pharaoh Cheops. Ismail Kadare
wrote about paraoh Cheops and creation of his
pyramid in this book.
Pharaoh Cheops wanted to forgo the construction
of a pyramid in his honor. However, his court
sages hasten to persuade him otherwise. So, the
Paraoh ordered to build the greatest pyramid
ever which killed many people in the process.]]> 117 Ismail Kadare Suman 4 2024 3.84 1992
author: Ismail Kadare
name: Suman
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1992
rating: 4
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]]> 8861311 (z pos?owia Jerzego Jarz?bskiego)]]> 358 Stanis?aw Lem 8375525820 Suman 4 2024 3.97 1976
author: Stanis?aw Lem
name: Suman
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1976
rating: 4
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]]> 23784826 142 Stanis?aw Lem Suman 3 2024 3.62 1965
author: Stanis?aw Lem
name: Suman
average rating: 3.62
book published: 1965
rating: 3
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]]> 210539320 418 Arthur C. Clarke 8196850816 Suman 5 2024 4.60 2024
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name: Suman
average rating: 4.60
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rating: 5
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]]> 46114 The Waves introduces six characters¡ªthree men and three women¡ªwho are grappling with the death of a beloved friend, Percival. Instead of describing their outward expressions of grief, Virginia Woolf draws her characters from the inside, revealing them through their thoughts and interior soliloquies. As their understanding of nature¡¯s trials grows, the chorus of narrative voices blends together in miraculous harmony, remarking not only on the inevitable death of individuals but on the eternal connection of everyone. The novel that most epitomizes Virginia Woolf¡¯s theories of fiction in the working form, The Waves is an amazing book very much ahead of its time. It is a poetic dreamscape, visual, experimental, and thrilling.]]> 297 Virginia Woolf 0156949601 Suman 5 2024 4.17 1931
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Suman
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1931
rating: 5
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]]> 28530153 A Room of One's Own is considered Virginia Woolf's most powerful feminist essay, justifying the need for women to possess intellectual freedom and financial independence. Based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, the essay is one of the great feminist polemics, ranging in its themes from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (imaginary) sister and the effects of poverty and sexual constraint on female creativity.

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major twentieth-century author and essayist, a key figure in literary history as a feminist and a modernist, and the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'.]]> 104 Virginia Woolf 984888243X Suman 4 2024 4.25 1929
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name: Suman
average rating: 4.25
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rating: 4
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]]> 59716
As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph¡ªthe human capacity for change.]]> 209 Virginia Woolf Suman 4 2022 3.81 1927
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Suman
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1927
rating: 4
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date added: 2024/05/30
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author: Abanindranath Tagore
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average rating: 4.44
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rating: 3
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]]> 14942 194 Virginia Woolf 0151009988 Suman 5 2024 3.80 1925
author: Virginia Woolf
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rating: 5
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]]> 199344846
On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black¡ªblack clothes, black mask¡ªrushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife. His first thought: So it¡¯s you. Here you are.

What followed was a horrific act of violence that shook the literary world and beyond. Now, for the first time, and in unforgettable detail, Rushdie relives the traumatic events of that day and its aftermath, as well as his journey toward physical recovery and the healing that was made possible by the love and support of his wife, Eliza, his family, his army of doctors and physical therapists, and his community of readers worldwide.

Knife is Rushdie at the peak of his powers, writing with urgency, with gravity, with unflinching honesty. It is also a deeply moving reminder of literature¡¯s capacity to make sense of the unthinkable, an intimate and life-affirming meditation on life, loss, love, art¡ªand finding the strength to stand up again.]]> 209 Salman Rushdie 0593730240 Suman 3 2024 3.99 2024
author: Salman Rushdie
name: Suman
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2024
rating: 3
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date added: 2024/05/16
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]]> 112237250 166 Rani Chanda 8175224436 Suman 4 2024 4.00 1956
author: Rani Chanda
name: Suman
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1956
rating: 4
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date added: 2024/05/12
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]]> 53082736 172 Rani Chanda Suman 5 2024 3.89 1976
author: Rani Chanda
name: Suman
average rating: 3.89
book published: 1976
rating: 5
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date added: 2024/05/06
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]]> 21404641 Rabindranath Tagore Suman 5 2024 4.32 1931
author: Rabindranath Tagore
name: Suman
average rating: 4.32
book published: 1931
rating: 5
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date added: 2024/05/02
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]]> 17993671 96 Shankarlal Bhattacharya Suman 3 2024 4.14 2005
author: Shankarlal Bhattacharya
name: Suman
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> 95558
When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he finds a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. The Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, though its purpose in doing so is unknown, forcing the scientists to shift the focus of their quest and wonder if they can truly understand the universe without first understanding what lies within their hearts.]]> 204 Stanis?aw Lem Suman 3 2024 4.00 1961
author: Stanis?aw Lem
name: Suman
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1961
rating: 3
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date added: 2024/04/29
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]]> 132596064 187 Rabindra Nath Tagore Suman 0 2024, currently-reading 0.0 1985
author: Rabindra Nath Tagore
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average rating: 0.0
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rating: 0
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]]> 55626006 With Pictures 928 ³Õ¨¡±ô³¾¨©°ì¾± Suman 5 2024 5.00
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]]> 24842887 ?????????????? 66 Indira Devi Chaudhurani 8175221712 Suman 3 2024 4.00 1960
author: Indira Devi Chaudhurani
name: Suman
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1960
rating: 3
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date added: 2024/04/26
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author: Sugaru Miaki
name: Suman
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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date added: 2024/04/23
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]]> 30839618 143 Supriya Tagore Suman 2 2024 3.33
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]]> 5129 Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order¨Call at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. ¡°A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine¡± (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history¡¯s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." ¡ªChicago Tribune]]> 268 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 Suman 5 2023, 2024 3.99 1932
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name: Suman
average rating: 3.99
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rating: 5
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date added: 2024/04/18
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]]> 21949526 Graphic novel 64 Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay 9381140898 Suman 2 2019 ??? ?????? ????? ???? ??... 4.13 1979
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name: Suman
average rating: 4.13
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rating: 2
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name: Suman
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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]]> 43305406
Citing recent DNA evidence, he traces the subsequent large migrations of modern humans into India¡ªof agriculturalists from Iran between 7000 and 3000 BCE and pastoralists from the Central Asian Steppe between 2000 and 1000 BCE, among others.

As Joseph unravels our history using the results of genetic and other research, he takes head-on some of the most controversial and uncomfortable questions of Indian history: Who were the Harappans? Did the 'Aryans' really migrate to India? Are North Indians genetically different from South Indians? And are the various castes genetically distinct groups?

This book relies heavily on path-breaking DNA research of recent years. But it also presents earlier archaeological and linguistic evidence¡ªall in an entertaining and highly readable manner. A hugely significant book, Early Indians authoritatively and bravely puts to rest several ugly debates on the ancestry of modern Indians. It not only shows us how the modern Indian population came to be composed as it is, but also reveals an undeniable and important truth about who we are: we are all migrants. And we are all mixed.]]> 256 Tony Joseph 938622898X Suman 4 2024 4.31 2018
author: Tony Joseph
name: Suman
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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date added: 2024/04/13
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author: Swapnamoy Chakraborty
name: Suman
average rating: 4.48
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/01
date added: 2024/04/01
shelves: 2024
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]]> 39787351 96 Sanmatrananda 9381687935 Suman 3 2024 3.91 2014
author: Sanmatrananda
name: Suman
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2014
rating: 3
read at: 2024/02/29
date added: 2024/02/29
shelves: 2024
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]]> 29851296 221 Rabindranath Tagore Suman 0 2024, currently-reading 4.06 1978
author: Rabindranath Tagore
name: Suman
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1978
rating: 0
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]]> 37646435 A book of Novel in Bengali
By Sanmatrananda

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author: Sanmatrananda
name: Suman
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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date added: 2024/02/22
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]]> 43293099
The Forest of Enchantments is also a very human story of some of the other women in the epic, often misunderstood and relegated to the margins: Kaikeyi, Surpanakha, Mandodari. A powerful comment on duty, betrayal, infidelity and honour, it is also about women¡¯s struggle to retain autonomy in a world that privileges men, as Chitra transforms an ancient story into a gripping, contemporary battle of wills.

While the Ramayana resonates even today, she makes it more relevant than ever, in the underlying questions in the novel: How should women be treated by their loved ones? What are their rights in a relationship? When does a woman need to stand up and say, ¡®Enough!¡¯]]> 372 Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni 9353025982 Suman 5 2024 4.19 2019
author: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
name: Suman
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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date added: 2024/02/04
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]]> 54909409 Fyodor Dostoevsky Suman 5 2024 4.80
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name: Suman
average rating: 4.80
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]]> 42448580 199 Liu Zhenyun 7513523630 Suman 3 2024 3.92 1989
author: Liu Zhenyun
name: Suman
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1989
rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/22
date added: 2024/01/22
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