Anita Nair

Eating Wasps

During a journey Akhila shares a sleeping car, the Ladies' Coupe, with other women, and as they recount their life stories, she wonders whether her own life as a single woman has been complete.

Ladies Coupe

A Novel

Mistress

Cut Like Wound

When her contented life as a corporate wife and cookbook writer is shattered by her husband's abandonment, Meera assumes responsibility for her extended family and home in Bangalore; while her professor neighbor struggles to care for his daughter, who has been gravely injured in a mysterious accident. By the award-winning author of Mistress. Simultaneous. 25,000 first printing.

The Lilac House

Inspector Gowda is back in another nail-biting thriller set in Bangalore India, the city now a hub for child trafficking.

Chain of Custody

'Here, indeed, is a novel well worth remembering'-India Today 'This is Nair's fourth book and there is no doubt about one thing: she gets better with each one. It's a story told at an unhurried pace by an accomplished writer'-The Hindu Literary Review Meera is happily submerged in the role of corporate wife and writer of cookbooks. Then, one day, her husband fails to come home. Overnight, she becomes responsible not just for her children Nayantara and Nikhil, but also her mother Saro, her grandmother Lily, and the running of Lilac House, their rambling old family home in Bangalore. Professor J.A. Krishnamurthy or Jak, cyclone studies expert, survivor of one marriage and several other encounters, has only recently returned from America. In a bedroom in his house lies his nineteen-year-old daughter Smriti, a tragic embodiment of memory and past violence. What happened on her holiday in the small beachside town in Tamil Nadu to make her so? The police will not help, Smriti's friends have vanished, and a wall of silence and fear surrounds the incident. But Jak cannot rest till he gets to the truth. By a series of coincidences, Meera and Jak find their lives turning and twisting together, with the unpredictability and sheer inevitability of a cyclone. And as the days pass, fresh beginnings appear where there seemed to be only endings. Delicately crafted and beautifully told, Lessons in Forgetting is a heartwarming story of redemption, forgiveness and second chances.

Lessons In Forgetting

"Winner of the 2017 crossword book award (jury) for children's literature"--Cover.

Stories from the Quran

Muezza and Baby Jaan

Voices from the Attic

El vagón de las mujeres

Lena Abraham knows that love can end in only one way -- disappointment. Her marriage to KK is perfect precisely because she is not in love with him, and their life on a tea plantation in the picturesque Anamalai hills is idyllic. Then, one rainy morning, a man arrives to take up temporary residence in the homestay they run.Shoola Pani is south Indian cinema's heartthrob, an actor in flight from his own superstardom, and the last thing he is looking for is emotional entanglement. But when Lena and he meet, something flares between them that neither could have anticipated. She becomes his Lee and he her Ship, and the place they inhabit Arcadia.Told partly from the point of view of Komathi, whose own relationship with Lena is fraught with buried truths from the past, this searing tale of unexpected passion and adultery reaffirms the magical power of love in all our lives.

Alphabet Soup for Lovers

«Una scrittura emozionante, che tocca le corde più recondite dei sentimenti coniugando tradizione e modernità. » la Repubblica Stazione ferroviaria di Bangalore, India. Akhila, single quarantacinquenne da sempre confinata nel ruolo di figlia, sorella, zia, è a un passo dal realizzare il suo grande sogno: salire su un treno gloriosamente sola, sistemarsi in una delle cuccette riservate alle signore e partire alla volta di una meta lontana, il paesino in riva al mare di Kanyakumari. Con le cinque donne del suo scompartimento - Janaki, moglie viziata e madre confusa; Margaret Shanti, insegnante di chimica sposata con un insensibile tiranno; Prabha Devi, la perfetta donna di casa; Sheela, quattordici anni e la capacità di capire ciò che le altre non possono; Marikolanthu, la cui innocenza è stata distrutta da una notte di lussuria - si crea subito una profonda intimità. Nelle confidenze sussurrate durante la lunga notte Akhila cerca una risposta alle domande che la turbano da quando era bambina, gli stessi dilemmi che caratterizzano il viaggio intrapreso da ogni donna nella vita.

Cuccette per signora

Das Salz der drei Meere.

The Better Man

Writings About Kerala

Where the Rain is Born

Why I Killed My Husband

Kvinnor på ett tåg

The years is 1659. Idris, a Somalian trader, is in kerala to attend the Mamangam festivities. By a strange twist of fate, he meets his nine years old son whose existence he had been unaware of. In an attempt to keep his son close to him, he embarks with him on a voyage that ends in the diamond mines of Golcondo. Packed with passion, adventure and fascinating aspects of life in the seventeenth century in southern India, Idris is a page-turner that will intrigue and excite readers everywhere.

Idris: Keeper of the Light

This wonderfully atmospheric, deliciously warm novel takes the reader into contemporary India, revealing how the dilemmas that women face in their relationships are the same world over.

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