Tag: Aleph Books
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New Release : The Prospect of Miracles – A Novel by Cyrus Mistry
ABOUT THE BOOK Pastor Pius Philipose, a charismatic priest from a small town in Kerala, is dead. As his adoring flock gathers around to mourn their ‘morally unblemished, upright, drenched-inthe- milk-of-human-kindness’ Pastor, his wife, Mary Agnes, at last free of her husband’s domineering presence, begins to recreate for the reader,…
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Upcoming Release: The Silence and the Storm- Narratives of Violence against Women in India by Kalpana Sharma
ABOUT THE BOOK From the rape of Mathura, a young tribal girl, by two policemen in Desaiganj, Maharashtra, in 1972, to the brutal sexual assault and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua, Kashmir, in 2018, the narrative around violence against women in India has barely changed. While laws have…
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Excerpt: The Merman and the Book of Power – A Qissa told by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
The Merman and the Book of Power brings into the English the classical qissa genre, a fabulist storytelling form common to the oral and written literatures of rdu, Persian and Arabic. Written by none other than the prolific author Musharraf Ali Farooqi, this book is a must read. For those…
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New Release: The Merman and the Book of Power – A Qissa by Musharraf Ali Farooqi
ABOUT THE BOOK The Merman and the Book of Power brings into the English the classical qissa genre, a fabulist storytelling form common to the oral and written literatures of Urdu, Persian, and Arabic. The book begins with the Mongol armies laying siege to Baghdad in 1258. Their attack does…