First Darling of the Morning: Selected Memories of an Indian Childhood, Paperback - Thrity Umrigar

Reducere. First Darling of the Morning is the powerful and poignant memoir of bestselling author Thrity Umrigar, tracing the arc of her Bombay childhood and ...

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A heart-warming story of facing fear and sharing our culture and experience with our peers.Publisher: ScholasticAuthor(s): Thrity UmrigarNumber of ...

Reducere. In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreakin...

Reducere. Binny woke up happy but nervous. It was her day to share about Diwali, the Festival of Lights Binny is excited to talk to her class about her favor...

Reducere. In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers, they built a house of grass, ate off a...

'A powerful, important, unforgettable book' - Cheryl Strayed, author of WildPublisher: Swift PressAuthor(s): Thrity UmrigarNumber of pages: 336Publ...

In this beautifully crafted novel about the interlinked lives of two women, Thrity Umrigar explores the complex relationships between the classes i...

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Reducere. ``This is a story intimately and compassionately told against the sensuous background of everyday life in Bombay.``--Washington Post Book World ``B...

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Reducere. DescriptionEach morning, Bhima, a domestic servant in contemporary Bombay, leaves her own small shanty in the slums to tend to another woman's hous...

When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Ken...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. The special bond between a mother and her child begins well before the baby is born. But once the baby is born and starts to grow into her own pers...

Publisher: Dalesman Publishing Co LtdIllustration(s): IllustrationsNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2008Dimensions: 208 x 139 x 24Cover type: ...

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Reducere. RONALD MORTENSON wrote this book so that his relatives and others could understand and know more about how their ancestors struggled to overcome ob...

"There isn't a flaw or misstep or a lack of humility on a single page. . . . I invite you to turn to just one page, to any page, and to let what's ...

Evocative, funny and full of life, this is a beautifully written and well observed childhood memoir of growing up in colonial Hong Kong shortly aft...

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Political prisoner Arun Ferreira recounts the violence of his incarceration and reveals the repressive climate of contemporary Indian politics.Illu...

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Written with Diana Athill's trademark insight and wry humour, a memoir of Diana's childhood, in England in the 1920s, that asks: does privilege equ...

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