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1) Shantaram
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Shantaram volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay.Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this...
Author
Series
Shantaram volume 2
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A sequel to Shantaram continues Australian fugitive Lin's search for love and faith in a Bombay that has come under the rule of a new generation of mafia dons and where Lin becomes trapped by his married soulmate and an increasingly violent mission.
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English
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"India, 1922: Perveen Mistry is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailable and very few women have ever seen a doctor. Perveen is attending a lavish fundraiser for a new women's hospital specializing in maternal health issues when she witnesses an accident. The grandson of an influential Gujarati businessman catches fire-but a servant, his young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly...
5) Lion
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed author of The Fifth Letter and Those Other Women comes this touching story of secrets, friendship, family, and forgivenessand the serendipitous twists of fate that shape our lives. Accept a letter Hannah has been runningliterally and figurativelyfrom her life back in Australia. Whenever shes not working, shes pounding Londons streets, putting the past behind her. Then she meets a fellow Australian named India, and Hannahs entranced....
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