books about: india     books:     India      Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia Elizabeth Gilbert Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007 Eat, Love, Pray This is a great book. It is brilliantly written, very funny, and thought provoking. I highly recommend it!             Unaccustomed Earth Jhumpa Lahiri Knopf, 2008 Beauty in simplicity I am typically not a fan of short stories as I find the development of the characters lacking and just as you develop a relationship (of sorts) the story is cut and the next begins. Unaccustomed Earth was an exception. The stories are neither complex or heavily ...             Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri Mariner Books, 1999 One of the best books I've ever read To give a frame of reference, some of my favorite authors are Margaret Atwood and Barbara Kingsolver. I have searched and searched for another introspective, intelligent, strong female voice, and finally I have found it. I plan on buying every one of her books and ...             The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us Robyn Meredith W. W. Norton, 2008 the elephant & the dragon Excellent book!! If you are interested in the upcoming and important economies of the world this is a must read. This is a very readable and entertaining book.             The Namesake: A Novel Jhumpa Lahiri Mariner Books, 2004 Fun to read The story, in general, was about the lives of Bengali migrants, how they fit in their new surroundings, and how their children reacted to Bengali traditions and customs. It is quite similar to a few other books before it. But The Namesake is written well and reading it ...             The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel Salman Rushdie Random House, 2008 A Rich and Sweeping Romance/Adventure and So Much More Having only read Midnight's Children, I'm in no position to attempt to rank The Enchantress of Florence among Salman Rushdie's other works. I can only describe my reaction to Rushdie's latest offering. The Enchantress is an old-fashioned adventure. Weaving ...             Shantaram: A Novel Gregory David Roberts St. Martin's Griffin, 2005 An amazing semi-autbiographical fiction novel! One of the few things more amazing than the novel "Shantaram" is the man who wrote it; Gregory David Roberts. I watched a video conference with him and much of the book seems to be taken out of real or similar events that happened to him, particularly the major events ...             Foreign Body Robin Cook Putnam Adult, 2008 One of his best! Robin Cook didn't write this 436 page thriller for any other reason than to give his fans another great summer escape. Loved this book. It's a fast and simple read and a break from the typical N.E. locales. Love his books.             The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy Harper Perennial, 1998 Beautiful poetry that is no casual read I borrowed this book from a friend's library because I heard so many good things about it. Although it can be confusing at times with multiple flashback events, I love the wordplay and the little details of life from multiple perspectives. Some aspects of the story ...             Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and ... Ahmed Rashid Viking Adult, 2008 A deeply troubling book Ahmed Rashid has long been a leading expert on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Muslim states of Central Asia that were once part of the Soviet Union. In 2000, the year before 9/11, he published 'Taliban', a book which politicians rushed to read after the attack on the ...             The Space Between Us: A Novel (P.S.) Thrity N. Umrigar Harper Perennial, 2007 "The Space Between" this and other bestselling novels...... The Space Between Us is quite an ambitious novel. The universal themes of gender roles, identity, class struggles, poverty, family bonds and love are pervasive, but it is written so eloquently and with such dynamic force that it supercedes the vast majority of ...             A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club) Rohinton Mistry Vintage, 2001 "A Fine Balance Between Hope and Despair" One of the most captivating of the books I've read this month, "A Fine Balance" brilliantly captures the essence of a poverty-stricken city within a politically unstable India of the 1970s. The story is set mostly during the two-year State of Emergency (comparable to ...             In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India Edward Luce Anchor, 2008 Wondering About India: Palimpsest or Pentimento? ­­­­Wondering About India: Palimpsest or Pentimento? RAJESH C. OZA, Jun 12, 2007 In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce. Doubleday, January, 2007. 383 pages. $[...]. Decades ago A.L. Basham wrote an academic tome titled The ...             Life of Pi Yann Martel Harvest Books, 2003 Entertaining I tore through all 330 pages in just a few days. I was fascinated by the story. It was refreshing to read soemthing so different; I couldn't put it down. Martel really did a fabulous job with this book. He gives the reader vivid imagery without being wordy. He keeps ...             The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai Grove Press, 2006 A perfectly written blend of fact and fiction Reading Man Booker Prize winning books is a bit hit and miss. They are all incredibly well written novels, but those that tend toward the poetically written tend to be weak on story. Not this one. While giving the back story on Sai, the Judge, the cook, Biju and all of ...          products you might be interested in search for books afghanistan, enchantress, everything, inheritance, interpreter, unaccustomed      toavi.com    web we recommend Entertaining randomly chosen book: Essential Endodontology: Prevention and Treatment of Apical Periodontitis