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Fish in a Dwindling Lake

By: Ambai

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THE BODY WAS THE ONLY TRUTH SHE KNEW. IT WAS THE BODY ALONE THAT WAS LEFT, EVEN AS SHE WENT BEYOND THE BODY. JOURNEYS FORM THE LEITMOTIF OF THESE ASTONISHING NEW STORIES BY AMBAI. SOMETIMES CULMINATING IN AN UNCONVENTIONAL LOVE AFFAIR, SOME ARE EXTRAORDINARY TALES OF LOYALTY AND INTEGRITY; OTHERS TOUCH ON THE ALMOST FANTASTIC, ABSURD ASPECT OF MUMBAI. YET OTHERS EXPLORE THE NOTION OF A WHOLESOME SELF, AND ITS TRAGIC ABSENCE AT TIMES.

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171

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Penguin Books India

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ISBN 10

0143414054

ISBN 13

9780143414056

A Kitchen in the Corner of the House

By: AMBAI

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A Kitchen in the Corner of the House

By: AMBAI

A Kitchen in the Corner of the House collects twenty-five gem-like stories on motherhood, sexuality, and the body from the innovative and perceptive Tamil writer Ambai. In A Kitchen in the Corner of the House, Ambai's narrators are daring and courageous, stretching and reinventing their homes, marriages, and worlds. With each story, her expansive voice confronts the construction of gender in Tamil literature. Piecing together letters, journal entries, and notes, Ambai weaves themes of both self-liberation and confinement into her writing. Her transfixing stories often meditate on motherhood, sexuality, and the liberating, and at times inhibiting, contours of the body.

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390

Publisher

Archipelago

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ISBN 10

1939810450

ISBN 13

9781939810458

Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell

Caste as Lived Experience

By: Perumal Murugan,Ambai

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Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell

Caste as Lived Experience

By: Perumal Murugan,Ambai

Caste, as it is experienced in everyday life, is the pièce de résistance of this book. Thirty-two voices narrate how from childhood to adulthood, caste intruded upon their lives—food, clothes, games, gait, love, marriage and every aspect of one's existence including death. Like the editor Perumal Murugan says, caste is like god, it is omnipresent. The contributors write about the myriad ways in which they have experienced caste. It may be in the form of forgoing certain kinds of food, or eating food at secluded corners of a household, or drinking tea out of a crushed plastic cup, or drinking black coffee in a coconut shell or water poured from above into a cupped hand. Such experiences may also take the form of forbidden streets, friends disapproved of and love denied. And when one leaves behind the fear of caste while living one's life, there is still death to deal with.

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279

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

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ISBN 10

9392099843

ISBN 13

9789392099847

Two Novellas and a Story

By: Ambai

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Two Novellas and a Story

By: Ambai

A Katha Trailblazer volume, this collection brings together three works of Ambai that explore the issue of female fertility. C S Lakshmi, who writes under the pen name Ambai, strikingly approaches the issue to unveil how women are oppressed and suppressed in the guise of love.

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120

Publisher

Katha

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ISBN 10

8187649631

ISBN 13

9788187649632

A Meeting on the Andheri Overbridge

Sudha Gupta Investigates

By: Ambai Gita Subramanian Tr.

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Sudha Gupta Investigates

By: Ambai Gita Subramanian Tr.

Sudha Gupta has a flair for solving problems. Armed with sharp eyes and a keen mind, she works as a private detective in Mumbai, assisting the police in finding three missing girls, investigating a potential bridegroom, and helping an old woman in distress.

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232

Publisher

Juggernaut Books

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8193284194

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9788193284193

Book's by Ambai

Fish in a Dwindling Lake

Fish in a Dwindling Lake

A Kitchen in the Corner of the House

A Kitchen in the Corner of the House

Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell

Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell

Two Novellas and a Story

Two Novellas and a Story

A Meeting on the Andheri Overbridge

A Meeting on the Andheri Overbridge

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