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Читра Дивакаруни
Independence
ISBN: 0063142384 Год издания: 2023 Издательство: HarperCollins US Аннотация
India, 1947. In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor.
Priya: intelligent and idealistic, resolved to follow in her father's footsteps and become a doctor, though society frowns on it.
Deepa: the beauty, determined to make a marriage that will bring her family joy and status.
Jamini: devout, sharp-eyed, and a talented quiltmaker, with deeper passions than she reveals.
Theirs is a home of love and safety, a refuge from the violent events taking shape in the nation. Then their father is killed during a riot, and even their neighbors turn against them, bringing the events of their country closer to home.
As Priya determinedly pursues her career goal, Deepa falls deeply in love with a Muslim, causing her to break with her family. And Jamini attempts to hold her family together, even as she secretly longs for her sister's fiancé.
When the partition of India is officially decided, a drastic--and dangerous--change is in the air. India is now for Hindus, Pakistan for Muslims. The sisters find themselves separated from one another, each on different paths. They fear for what will happen to not just themselves, but each other -
Читра Дивакаруни
The Forest of Enchantments
ISBN: 9353025982 Год издания: 2019 Издательство: HarperCollins India Аннотация
The Ramayana, one of the world's greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant retelling, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita at the centre of the novel: this is Sita's version. 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!' -
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Vine Of Desire (new cover r...
ISBN: 9780349139692 Год издания: 2013 Язык: Английский Аннотация
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Читра Банерджи Дивакаруни
Дворец иллюзий
ISBN: 78-5-373-04676-3 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Олма Медиа Групп Язык: Русский Аннотация
Эта книга перенесет вас в волшебный мир эпической "Махабхараты", пересказанной на современный лад. Вы узнаете историю жизни принцессы Панчаали, жены пяти легендарных братьев Пандавов. Принцесса втянута в борьбу за власть между пятью ее супругами. А непростые отношения принцессы со свекровью, странная дружба с загадочным Кришной и ее тайное влечение к мужчине,…
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Читра Банерджи Дивакаруни
Сестра моего сердца
ISBN: 978-5-373-04444-8 Год издания: 2012 Издательство: Олма Медиа Групп Язык: Русский Аннотация
Анджу выросла в Калькутте в семье, принадлежащей к высшей касте. Ее двоюродная сестра Судха - дочь "паршивой овцы" семейства. Судха красива, отзывчива и серьезна, в то время как Анджу не отличается красотой, но зато умна и своенравна. С самого рождения между сестрами образовалась особенная связь, которая удивляла даже их матерей. Однако эта связь исчезла после…
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Читра Банерджи Дивакаруни
Принцесса специй
ISBN: 978-5-373-04429-5 Год издания: 2011 Издательство: Олма Медиа Групп Язык: Русский Аннотация
Эта волшебная, завораживающая и чувственная книга - история молодой женщины по имени Тило, хранительницы магии специй. Ей, рожденной в далекой стране, в далекие времена, судьбой предназначено обрести особую силу. Став бессмертной после обряда, посвященного огню, она приезжает в современную Америку и начинает помогать людям с помощью специй. Но любовь, неожиданно…
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Читра Дивакаруни
One Amazing Thing
ISBN: 9781401341589 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Hachette Books Язык: Английский Аннотация
Late afternoon sun sneaks through the windows of a passport and visa office in an unnamed American city. Most customers and even most office workers have come and gone, but nine people remain. A punky teenager with an unexpected gift. An upper-class Caucasian couple whose relationship is disintegrating. A young Muslim-American man struggling with the fallout of 9/11. A graduate student haunted by a question about love. An African-American ex-soldier searching for redemption. A Chinese grandmother with a secret past. And two visa office workers on the verge of an adulterous affair.
When an earthquake rips through the afternoon lull, trapping these nine characters together, their focus first jolts to their collective struggle to survive. There's little food. The office begins to flood. Then, at a moment when the psychological and emotional stress seems nearly too much for them to bear, the young graduate student suggests that each tell a personal tale, "one amazing thing" from their lives, which they have never told anyone before. And as their surprising stories of romance, marriage, family, political upheaval, and self-discovery unfold against the urgency of their life-or-death circumstances, the novel proves the transcendent power of stories and the meaningfulness of human expression itself. From Chitra Divakaruni, author of such finely wrought, bestselling novels as Sister of My Heart, The Palace of Illusions, and The Mistress of Spices, comes her most compelling and transporting story to date. One Amazing Thing is a passionate creation about survival--and about the reasons to survive. -
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
The Palace of Illusions
ISBN: 978-1400096206 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Anchor Язык: Английский Аннотация
Taking us back to a time that is half history, half myth and wholly magical, The Palace of Illusions gives new voice to Panchaali, the fire-born heroine of the Mahabharat, as she weaves a vibrant interpretation of an ancient tale. Married to five royal husbands who have been cheated out of their father's kingdom, Panchaali aids their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war. But she cannot deny her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna—or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy—as she is caught up in the ever-manipulating hands of fate. -
Читра Банерджи Дивакаруни
The Palace of Illusions
ISBN: 9780385515993, 978-0-385-51599-3 Год издания: 2008 Издательство: Doubleday Язык: Русский Аннотация
A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat - told from the point of view of an amazing woman.
Relevant to today's war-torn world, The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half history, half myth, and wholly magical. Narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the legendary Pandavas brothers in the Mahabharat, the novel gives us a new interpretation of this ancient tale.
The novel traces the princess Panchaali's life, beginning with her birth in fire and following her spirited balancing act as a woman with five husbands who have been cheated out of their father's kingdom. Panchaali is swept into their quest to reclaim their birthright, remaining at their side through years of exile and a terrible civil war involving all the important kings of India. Meanwhile, we never lose sight of her strategic duels with her mother-in-law, her complicated friendship with the enigmatic Krishna, or her secret attraction to the mysterious man who is her husbands' most dangerous enemy. Panchaali is a fiery female redefining for us a world of warriors, gods, and the ever-manipulating hands of fate. -
Читра Дивакаруни
Принцесса специй
ISBN: 978-5-486-01462-8 Год издания: 2007 Издательство: Мир книги Язык: Русский Аннотация
Никто из посетителей магазина специй в калифорнийском городе Окленде не догадывается, что его хозяйка, индианка Тило, на самом деле Принцесса Специй, обладающая магической силой. Покупая пряности, ее клиенты на самом деле приобретают нечто гораздо более ценное - помощь в исполнении их желаний. Для каждого у Тило готов мудрый совет и подходящая специя: чтобы…