'Sudeep Sen's Anthropocene is an impassioned and heartfelt response to the intersecting planetary crises of our time. It is of the utmost importance that more voices from the global South bear witness to the mutliple catastrophe that are now unfolding around us.' - AMITAV GHOSH
'The art of ghazal-singing nurtured in the kothas might easily have turned into an embarrassing skeleton in our cultural closet had Begum Akhtar not claimed a space for it in the most esteemed music sammelans.' - SALEEM KIDWAI 'Wrenching the thumri from its moorings in the salons of the rasik rajas and talukdars of Upper India, she brought it to…
A story of love in a cool climate, intensely romantic and weepily beautiful...it is startlingly different: a true original ― Guardian Casablanca remade Japanese style...It is dream-like writing, laden with scenes which have the radiance of a poem ― The Times This wise and beautiful book is full of hidden truths ― New York Times
"Most collections of short stories work by the interplay of different voices. This one offers the more satisfying rewards of a novel: unity of tone and a richness of recurring detail that creates its own texture: spaghetti, lawns, hamburgers, beer-drinking, kid sisters, Sunday afternoons, a man's name" - INDEPENDENT Enchanting...intriguing... All of these tales have a wonderfully surreal quality and…
From the bestselling author of The Forest of Enchantments. 'Stunning and moving...Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni is writing at the very top of her game' - William Dalrymple
* One of the BBC's '100 Novels that Shaped the World'* 'A gorgeous, jewelled, luxurious book' - The Times Colourfully woven and beguilingly intelligent' - Daily Telegraph 'With it's timely, through provoking message . . . The Forty Rules of Love deserves to be a global publishing phenomenon' - Independent
