Download or read book The Purple Lotus and Other Stories written by Ratna Rao Shekar and published by Mapin Publishing Pvt. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Purple Lotus written by Veena Rao and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-09-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 WINNER, AMERICAN FICTION AWARD A 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Award Finalist Award-Winning Finalist, Women's Fiction, 2021 International Book Awards Award-Winning Finalist, Multicultural Fiction, 2021 International Book Awards Featured in Travel + Leisure’s "20 Most-anticipated Books for Fall” “20 Classic and New Books About Feminism That Will Get You Thinking and Talking” ―Parade “A moving and polished novel that highlights Rao’s literary promise.” ―Kirkus Reviews “Rao’s resonant novel is an ode to the value of personal dignity and the importance of being true to oneself that carries on long after the final chapter.” ―Newsweek magazine “Purple Lotus is the Atlanta novel you need to be reading this year… Tara is probably one of the strongest characters you’ll find in Southern fiction.” —ArtsATL “I’d recommend it to people who are fans of the expansive storytelling of Tayari Jones... and then to anyone who wants to add to their bookshelf of growing Atlanta literature.” —PANK Magazine” ” “The dazzling tale of an Indian-American woman finding her way through the labyrinth of tradition to self-awareness in the modern world. The writer employs an energetic prose style interspersed with melodic passages to make the writing itself a hybrid. Set in particular times and places, Purple Lotus nonetheless appeals to readers everywhere, especially women, to claim the full measure of their human rights. A vivid and resplendent novel for our time.” ―Elaine Neil Orr, critically acclaimed author of Swimming Between Worlds Tara moves to the American South three years after her arranged marriage to tech executive Sanjay. Ignored and lonely, Tara finds herself regressing back to childhood memories that have scarred her for life. When she was eight, her parents had left her behind with her aging grandparents and a schizophrenic uncle in Mangalore, while taking her baby brother with them to make a new life for the family in Dubai. Tara’s memories of abandonment and isolation mirror her present life of loneliness and escalating abuse at the hands of her husband. She accepts the help of kind-hearted American strangers to fight Sanjay, only to be pressured by her patriarchal family to make peace with her circumstances. Then, in a moment of truth, she discovers the importance of self-worth—a revelation that gives her the courage to break free, gently rebuild her life, and even risk being shunned by her community when she marries her childhood love, Cyrus Saldanha. Life with Cyrus is beautiful, until old fears come knocking. Ultimately, Tara must face these fears to save her relationship with Cyrus—and to confront the victim-shaming society she was raised within. Intimate and deeply moving, Purple Lotus is the story of one woman’s ascension from the dark depths of desolation toward the light of freedom.
Download or read book The Jewel in the Lotus and Other Stories written by S. E. Brady and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lotus Seed written by Sherry Garland and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1997 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Vietnamese family is forced to flee from their homeland to escape a devastating civil war.
Download or read book The Lotus Quest written by Mark Griffiths and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A captivating history of one of the world's most iconic and mysterious flowers Bewitched by a lotus which flowered from three-thousandyear- old seeds in his English garden, Mark Griffiths set out to track the origins and significance of this sublime plant in this beautifully-illustrated book. The Lotus Quest takes Griffiths from the headquarters of the Linnaean Society in London to a mountain top in northern Japan. As he travels in search of this ancient flower, Griffiths looks at the lotus's significance in ancient Egypt and India, the plant's medicinal uses and the inspiration it has provided to Western artists. As he tracks the plant, its story unveils a stunning vision of Japan's feudal era with visits to shrines, ruins, gardens and wild landscapes as well as meetings with priests and archaeologists, philosophers and anthropologists, gardeners and botanists, poets and artists. He even dines on the lotus in a Tokyo cafe. By the end of Griffiths' journey, when he reaches the hauntingly beautiful Japanese temple of Chuson-ji, readers will finally understand why the lotus has obsessed people throughout the ages.
Download or read book Purple Lotus written by Bhavika D and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-07-25 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purple Lotus is a collection of poems on diverse topics penned down in a simple manner. "About butterflies, birds, flowers and trees, About clouds,fields, rainbows and seas. About different people, their journey and stories, About the universe, stars and galaxies. And every other element and every creature, The book is all about everyone as a part of nature, Every poem of this collection reflects nature."
Download or read book Listen to the House written by Ratna Rao Shekar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the countries, the cities, the streets, the houses we have grown up in that define our lives. How can we ever escape them? We look at our life years later by the streets we have played in, the houses we have lived in, and the cities whose bylanes we crisscrossed. We are that memory finally. Listen to the House is the story of two girls who travel the world but are rooted in the houses they grew up in, and anchored to each other by the long letters they exchange, no matter where they are. And this they do through their lives in whatever situations they are. The novel evokes an old Hyderabad that no longer exists, a slowness of life that has died, and friendships that have all but disappeared.
Download or read book The Black Lotus Shadow of the Ninja written by Kieran Fanning and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ninja and samurai lore come together with action and adventure to create an explosive new book perfect for fans of Rick Riordan and Brandon Mull! "Wonderful characters, unbelievable adventure . . . I loved this book." -- Eoin Colfer, author of the Artemis Fowl seriesGhost, Cormac, and Kate are not like other kids. Ghost can turn invisible, Cormac can run up walls, and Kate can talk to animals--all abilities that make them perfect recruits for the Black Lotus, a training school for ninjas who are sworn to protect the world from the evil samurai-run Empire. But when the Moon Sword--a source of unimaginable power--is stolen, the three are forced to put their new skills to the test and go back in time to sixteenth-century Japan and retrieve it.
Download or read book Lotus and Feather written by Ji-li Jiang and published by Disney-Hyperion. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A winter illness left Lotus, a little girl, without a voice and without friends. A hunter's bullet left Feather, a crane, injured and unable to fly. As Lotus nurses Feather back to health, their bond grows. Soon Feather is following Lotus everywhere, even to school! The bird dances to the girl's reed whistle, much to the delight of the other children. One day, when the village floods, Feather helps raise the alarm as Lotus and her grandfather urge their neighbors to get to high ground. Feather is a true friend to Lotus, but the time comes when Lotus must be a true friend to him--by encouraging him to migrate with the rest of the cranes. The next spring, Feather miraculously returns, and that's not all . . . he has brought new life to the nearby lake. Inspired by the true story of a crane that rescued a Chinese village, and graced with sensitive watercolor illustrations, this lovely book about respecting nature offers deep emotion and delightful surprises.
Download or read book Noorjehan and Other Stories written by Ahmed Essop and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Purple Lotus Diary written by Jane Tremain and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purple Lotus Diary is a book of poetry collection written by Jane Tremain. She is originally from Carshalton Surrey, United Kingdom, a mother of three children and is hard of hearing. This book is full of inspiration and passion, love and romance and friendships. When I listen to music and songs, the words would come to my mind, and I see visions that will suddenly take me to my pen and write them from my heart. Everything l express in my writing comes from the core of my heart that l endure in my life with my personal experiences. Music and love are the complexities of love in my life, which are our universal experience to understand, which will take you to the journey, through my book, and you will find compassionate, spiritual, humorous , romance/love, and friendship writes. Which you will discover many observations on love in my book and indeed in your own spirits will be touched with my own. My poetry is like a window to my soul. You will be able to feel the experiences and the emotions and be enlightened with my words and shall certainly be touched with my own spirit. My poetry shall enrich you with passion and inspiration.
Download or read book The Woman Who Rode Away and Other Stories written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These thirteen short stories were written between 1924 and 1928. Eleven were collected in The Woman Who Rode Away (1928), though 'The Man Who Loved Islands' appeared in the American edition only and the other two in The Lovely Lady (1933). An unpublished fragment 'A Pure Witch' is also included.
Download or read book The Chronicles of Conan Volume 34 Betrayal in Zamora and Other Stories written by Roy Thomas and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2017 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume collects Conan the Barbarian issues 268-275, originally published by Marvel Comics" -- Title page verso.
Download or read book Nelycinda and Other Stories written by Susan Visvanathan and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fourteen stories, Nelycinda & other stories, presents a woman's perspective of society thriving on trade and business. Lyrical and poignant, these stories take us to a world infested with the aroma of spices. The world was always opaque and something about the nearness of the sea made it more so. Susa began her day with the smallness of things, sea sand, which appeared as dull as the day, and the colours in the translucent shells, each catching the first light of the morning. How curious that the sand and salt and the ambitions of the sea creatures could create these colours. She walked to the seaside, wishing that the fisher people were about, but they had dived for pearls earlier than was usual that morning because of the impending storm. A great silence filled the ocean that brought to her the occasional screech of birds wheeling, and the whorls of the sea shells which produced their own sounds. Prison was a place which enclosed one and brought the world much closer by what one could imagine. It was where silence was the only companion, where the routines of the day allowed one to build a small world based entirely on ones thoughts. It was the shelter of the moment to work with the grandeur of the unseen. Imprisoned by the minutes, and allowed to fly when the tasks were completed. She looked at the beach, for the inlets were full of birds and moss and climbing purple flowers, and that was where she would go. To the river that, in its sureness of the life of the people, would bring her conversations and the calm of everyday tasks.
Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Passing of the Flagship and Other Stories written by William Price Drury and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fairy Tales and Other Stories written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
