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The Inheritance

By: Sheena Kalayil

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Ben Martin is charming and successful: an academic who has raised money for children's charities and worked with women's agencies in sub-Saharan Africa, a devoted husband. But when his brother Francois, an artist based in Lisbon, finds out about Ben's affair with a student, Rita Kalungal, he finds himself feeling responsible both for his brother's actions as well as Rita; and Rita begins to realise that her involvement with Ben has far-reaching consequences on herself and her family, and others.

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1788850416

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The Bureau of Second Chances

By: Sheena Kalayil

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The Bureau of Second Chances

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After more than thirty years in London, recently widowed Thomas Imbalil returns to India. He spends his first months in uncluttered isolation in his house overlooking the Arabian Sea, in a small village in Kerala. But when he agrees to look after his friend's optical store, he meets and befriends Rani, the young assistant. Before long he discovers that Rani is using the store to run an intriguing side-business. He agrees to turn a blind eye, but the discovery has made him restless, and reminds him of the lonliness he is feeling and which lies ahead of him. Rani also reveals herself as a much more complex individual than he had first imagined, and while he had envisaged a quiet reacquaintance with his homeland, Thomas finds himself becoming more and more entangled with the lives of those around him.

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Birlinn Ltd

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0857909266

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The Wild Wind

By: Sheena Kalayil

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The Wild Wind

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“An emotionally resonant, semi-autobiographical story about growth and change and coming to terms with loss” from the Writers’ Guild Award-winning author (The Herald). Vanish to a different land with Sissy Olikara. Sissy is twelve years old, living with her parents and baby brother on a school campus outside of Lusaka. It is 1978, and the political situation in Zambia is becoming volatile. The family enjoy a gentle life until, suddenly, Sissy’s father leaves and returns to India. His departure brings about a chain of events which force Sissy into the adult world and have profound, long-lasting consequences. Moving back and forth in time as the adult Sissy reflects on her childhood, The Wild Wind is a haunting, absorbing coming-of-age tale of lost loves and lost innocence—one that takes readers on a journey into a young woman’s past and its repercussions on her future. Featured on The Guardian’s “Not the Booker Longlist, 2019” “A finely structure family story . . . It is written with serious respect for its characters and their story. There are no villains. It is about people in credible situations and people who are almost all trying to behave well. This is difficult to bring off and Kalayil is evidently a novelist of real talent.” —Yorkshire Post “Follows Sissy Olikara, a US-based translator reflecting on her 1970s childhood in the outskirts of the Zambian capital Lusaka. The end result is profound and long-lasting.” —Sunday Post

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Polygon

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1788852214

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The Wild Wind

By: Sheena Kalayil

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The Wild Wind

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From the winner of the 2018 Writers' Guild Award Vanish to a different land with Sissy Olikara. Sissy is twelve years old, living with her parents and baby brother on a school campus outside Lusaka. It is 1978, and the political situation in Zambia is becoming volatile. The family enjoy a gentle life until, suddenly, Sissy's father leaves and returns to India. His departure brings about a chain of events which force Sissy into the adult world and have profound, long-lasting consequences. Moving back and forth in time as the adult Sissy reflects on her childhood, The Wild Wind is a haunting, absorbing coming-of-age tale of lost loves and lost innocence - one that takes readers on a journey into a young woman's past and its repercussions on her future. Featured on the Guardian's ' NOT THE BOOKER LONGLIST, 2019' (https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/not-the-booker-prize)

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The Inheritance

By: Sheena Kalayil

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The Beloved Country

By: Sheena Kalayil

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The Beloved Country

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Back in India after a long absence and on a train on the way home, a young woman thinks back to a love from her past, Jafar. She recalls their affair: from their first meeting to her journey to Mozambique, to embark on an all-consuming but ultimately impossible relationship. Now, years later, with a chance to begin again, will she be able to put the past behind her and start a new chapter in her life? The Beloved Country is about love and loss, the choices we make in life and the people we become as a result.

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Grosvenor House Publishing

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1781484643

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The Bureau of Second Chances

By: Sheena Kalayil

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Second-Generation South Asian Britons

Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Diasporic Identity

By: Sheena Kalayil

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Second-Generation South Asian Britons

Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Diasporic Identity

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Second-Generation South Asian Britons: A Narrative Inquiry into Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Diasporic Identity uses the narratives of seven high-professional, second-generation South Asian Britons to explore issues related to Heritage Language learning and maintenance, discourses of identity and the practices of multicultural families in the UK. Through semi-structured interviews conducted in English, the participants of the study provide articulate and reflective accounts of the language dynamics in the families they grew up in, the communities and environs of their childhood, their young adulthoods and their current lives as parents of dual-heritage children. By investigating both the stories that they tell and how they tell them, this study offers insights into how monolingual narratives can be used to comment on multilingualism.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498580033

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Second-Generation South Asian Britons

Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Diasporic Identity

By: Sheena Kalayil

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Multilingualism, Heritage Languages, and Diasporic Identity

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The Beloved Country

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