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Other Colours - Essays and a story
Orhan Pamuk, Rs. 495
From Orhadn Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Noble Prize in Literature, comes a personal selection of the best from twenty-five years work. Reflections on Pamuk’s first passport, his first trip to Europe, his father’s death, his recent court case, and the Istanbul earthquake share space with pieces on writers as various as Laurence Stern and Fyodor Dostoevsky, Vladimir Nabokova dn Mario Vargas Llosa. There are sections on Istanbul, New York – where Pamuk lived for two years – and on the writing of each of his novels. Interspersed among these are Pamuk’s own black and white drawings, as well as his short story ‘To Look out of the Window.’
How Starbucks saved my life
Michael Gill, Rs. 195
A candid, moving and inspirational memoir about a high-flying businessman who is forced to re-evaluate his life and values when he suddenly loses everything and goes to work in Starbucks.
Curiosity Killed the Cat and other animal idioms
Bindia Thapar, Rs. 175
If you have been curious about why curiosity killed the cat, this book of animal sayings lets the cat out of the bag.
Emperors of the Peacock Throne – the Saga of the Great Mughals
Abraham Eraly, Rs. 495
A stirring account of one of the world’s greatest empires. In this definitive biography of the great Mughals, the author presents history as a chronicle of flesh-and-blood people. Brigning to his task both scholarship and the imagination of a storyteller, he recreates the lives of Babur, Humayun, Akbar, Jehangir and Aurangazeb.
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