My Sister’s Bones by Nuala Ellwood
Price: Rs 958
Kate has spent fifteen years bringing global injustice home: as a decorated war reporter, she’s always in a place of conflict, writing about ordinary people in unimaginable situations. When her mother dies, Kate returns home from Syria for the funeral. But an incident with a young Syrian boy haunts her dreams, and when Kate sees a boy in the garden of the house next door – a house inhabited by an Iraqi refugee who claims her husband is away and she has no children – Kate becomes convinced that something is very wrong. As she struggles to separate her memories of Syria from the quiet town in which she grew up and also to reconcile her memories of a traumatic childhood with her sister’s insistence that all was not as Kate remembers she begins to wonder what is actually true, and what is just in her mind.
Home by Manju Kapur
Price: Rs 560
When their traditional business – selling saris – is increasingly sidelined by the new fashion for jeans and stitched salwar kameez, the Banwari Lal family must adapt. But instead of branching out, the sons remain apprenticed to the struggling shop and the daughters are confined to the family home. As envy and suspicion grip parents and children alike, the need for escape – whether through illicit love or in the making of pickles or the search for education – becomes ever stronger.Very human and hugely engaging, Home is a masterful story of the acts of kindness, compromise, and secrecy that lie at the heart of every family. Manju Kapur’s first novel, Difficult Daughters, received tremendous international acclaim and was a number-one bestseller in India. This latest installment gives you a firsthand look at the traditions that are followed in getting married, raising children and living with in-laws.
The Golden Legend by Nadeem Aslam
Price: Rs 958
When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road, Nargis’s life begins to crumble around her. Her husband, Massud, is caught in the cross fire and dies before she can confess her greatest secret to him. Now under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, who demands that she pardon her husband’s American killer, Nargis fears that the truth about her past will soon be exposed. For weeks someone has been broadcasting people’s secrets from the minaret of the local mosque, and the mysterious broadcasts have struck fear in Christians and Muslims alike. When the loudspeakers reveal a forbidden romance between a Muslim cleric’s daughter and Nargis’s Christian neighbor, Nargis finds herself trapped in the center of the chaos tearing their community apart. This novel reflects Pakistan’s past and present in a single mirror, a story of corruption, resilience, and the disguises that are sometimes necessary for survival.
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