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After Empire
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 22.50In After Empire Michael Gorra explores how three novelists of empire—Paul Scott, V. S. Naipaul, and Salman Rushdie—have charted the perpetually drawn and perpetually blurred boundaries of identity left in the wake of British imperialism. Arguing against a model of cultural identity based on race, Gorra begins with Scott's portrait,... more...
The Bells in Their Silence
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 23.95Nobody writes travelogues about Germany. The country spurs many anxious volumes of investigative reporting--books that worry away at the "German problem," World War II, the legacy of the Holocaust, the Wall, reunification, and the connections between them. But not travel books, not the free-ranging and impressionistic works of literary nonfiction... more...
The Portable Conrad
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 20.00A great novelist of the sea, a poet of the tropics, a critic of empire and analyst of globalization, a harbinger of the modern spy novel, an unparalleled observer of the moments in which people are stripped of their illusions-Joseph Conrad is one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. This revised edition of The Portable Conrad features... more...
The Guide
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 15.00Formerly India?s most corrupt tourist guide, Raju?just released from prison?seeks refuge in an abandoned temple. Mistaken for a holy man, he plays the part and succeeds so well that God himself intervenes to put Raju?s newfound sanctity to the test. Narayan?s most celebrated novel, The Guide won him the National Prize of the Indian Literary Academy,... more...
Mani
New York Review Books 2011; US$ 15.95The Mani, at the tip of Greece’s—and Europe’s—southernmost promontory, is one of the most isolated regions of the world. Cut off from the rest of the country by the towering range of the Taygetus and hemmed in by the Aegean and Ionian seas, it is a land where... more...
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