Ghost in the Tamarind: A Novel, S. Shankar

Автор: S. Shankar
Название: Ghost in the Tamarind: A Novel
ISBN: 082486722X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780824867225
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 27720.00 T
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Описание: Who can you love? What do you owe to love and what to the world at large? Such are the questions that drive the story of Ramu, a Brahmin man, and Ponni, a woman of the Dalit ""untouchable"" caste. Set against the backdrop of twentieth-century South India, the novel takes readers from the 1890s village where Ramu`s grandmother grew up to the Emergency years of 1970s Madras.

Автор: Hoang C. L.
Название: Rain Falling on Tamarind Trees: A Travelogue of Vietnam
ISBN: 0989975606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780989975605
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Цена: 14890.00 T
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Have you ever wondered what Vietnam is like some forty years after the war has ended? Then come along with the author as he returns to visit his ancestral homeland for the first time after a decades-long absence.

Retrace his steps with him around his former hometown of Saigon in the south, and then follow him along on an itinerary of discovery to other unique destinations throughout the country: Hoi-An, the best-preserved medieval seaport in Southeast Asia; Hue, the ancient capital of imperial Vietnam, on the central coast; Halong Bay, a world-renowned natural wonder; and Hanoi, the country's thousand-year-old capital, in the north.

Filled with historical and cultural tidbits and personal reminiscences, and illustrated with over forty photographs, Rain Falling on Tamarind Trees offers the reader an insightful and fascinating glimpse of this tropical land.