Fall of the Kingdom of Punjab

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Khushwant Singh

Paradise and other stories is a distinguished work by Khushwant Singh (Padma Vibhushan, Sahitya Akademi Fellowship, Partition Chronicler), celebrated for its literary depth, resonant storytelling, and enduring cultural impact.

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Amrita Pritam

Collection of letters between Amrita Pritam, 1919-2005, Panjabi literatteur, and Imaroza, close associate.

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Hanif Kureishi

Jamal Khan, a psychoanalyst in his fifties living in London, is haunted by memories of his teens: his first love, Ajita; the exhilaration of sex, drugs and politics; and a brutal act of violence which changed his life for ever. As he and his best friend Henry attempt to make the sometimes painful, sometimes comic transition to their divorced middle age, balancing the conflicts of desire and dignity, Jamals teenage traumas make a shocking reappearance in his present life.

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Ayad Akhtar

"A fast-paced economic thriller that exposes the financial deal making behind the mergers and acquisitions boom of the 1980s"--Publisher's web site. Set in the teetering financial world of the 1980s, Junk is a fast-paced thriller that tells the story of Robert Merkin, resident genius of the upstart investment firm Sacker Lowell. Merkin has been hailed as "America's Alchemist," and his proclamation that "debt is an asset" has propelled him to a dizzying level of success. By orchestrating the takeover of a massive steel manufacturer, Merkin intends to do the "deal of the decade," the one that will rewrite all the rules. Ayad Akhtar is working on his broadest canvas to date as he chronicles the lives of men and women engaged in financial civil war: insatiable investors, threatened workers, killer lawyers, skeptical journalists, and ambitious federal prosecutors. Although Junk is set forty years in the past, this is a play about the world we live in right now, a world in which money has become the only thing of real value. -- from back cover.