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The Last White Man
Mohsin Hamid
Mohsin Hamid’s new book, ‘The Last White Man’, questions ‘whiteness’ at a time when Black Lives Matter is delivering change, but it is surprisingly lightweight https://t.co/CzvzjrAXyD
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In Search of Amrit Kaur: A Lost Princess and Her Vanished World
Livia Manera Sambuy
#Review of 'In Search of Amrit Kaur — An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris': Livia Manera Sambuy pieces together the story of Amrit Kaur and her life but there’s not enough on the protagonist | #thmagazine https://t.co/7SEUaA9Tlb
Paperback, 2024
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pyre
Perumal Murugan
In this week's The Hindu on Books #newsletter, Sudipta Datta writes on a new edition of Perumal Murugan's 'Pyre', Kasturba's diary and more. Preview and subscribe here: https://t.co/gvgKt1fxss https://t.co/M8pHGQexGK
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Bangalore Detectives Club
Harini Nagendra
'The Bangalore Detectives Club' by Harini Nagendra review | We view the world of the 1920s from a woman’s perspective and celebrate her as she breaks class and caste barriers with elan, says @BasavBiradar @TheHinduBooks @TheHinduMag https://t.co/j3rFmCWR0m
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
In Hitler's Munich: Jews, the Revolution, and the Rise of Nazism
Michael Brenner
#Review of Michael Brenner’s 'In Hitler’s Munich' | Michael Brenner, the distinguished German Jewish historian, provides important lessons which might help thwart the ongoing collapse of #democracies across the world @TheHinduBooks @TheHinduMag https://t.co/GUl0kbKvHd
Paperback, 2024
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Independence
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s latest novel 'Independence' uses the abiding thread of sisterhood to outline Partition, nationhood, love and loss https://t.co/Ew3QfdLdHl
Paperback, 2024
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr
#Books | This novel of enmeshed narratives is a homage to the fragile yet resilient world of stories. | writes Jaideep Unudurti https://trib.al/OZIxOyF
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rahul Bajaj: An Extraordinary Life
Gita Piramal
In this week's The Hindu on Books newsletter, Sudipta Datta writes on the legacy of #RahulBajaj, a biography of water, Gundappa Vishwanath’s memoirs and more. Preview here: https://t.co/uYxgCZLDkd https://t.co/COEeH9AZ7H
Hardcover, 2022
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley
She may be out of the Booker contention, but Leila Mottley, the youngest author ever nominated for the prize, tells a powerful story of exploitation, racism and sexuality in her debut novel 'Nightcrawling.' | @radhikasan writes. https://t.co/K4z7x2P8f0
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Review | Did the author deliberately set out to write a tribute novel to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic? | @ShumaRaha writes for #thmagazine https://t.co/iBPGXHcAL2
Paperback, 2004
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book