29th
October
2005
Mistress is a beautiful novel by veteran novelist Anita Nair, with Kerala and Kathakali as the backdrop. It is the story of a great Kathakali artist (Koman) as told to Christopher Stewart (Chris) a travel writer from abroad. It is also the story of Radha (Koman’s niece) and her husband Shyam. It is also the story of the attraction, infatuation and passion between Radha and Shyam. It is also about the marriage of Radha and Shyam and what went wrong and how it is heading for a disaster. It is the story of Sethu (Koman’s dad) and his life.
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2nd
October
2005
Over one hundred years have passed since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle introduced his inimitable sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, to the world and his popularity has never waned. This book contains all that is written about Sherlock Holmes (56 stories and 4 novels), both before and after the creator’s attempt to dispatch him in print.
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27th
August
2005
It is always very difficult to hit the right notes on your debut, but Audrey Niffenegger has done it, and done it with great aplomb and finesse. The topic of the novel is time travel, but the problem is that only one character of the novel— Henry DeTamble—does all the traveling while leaving his wife Clare home alone. Henry suffers from chrono displacement disorder, which makes him disappear without warning and travel back and forth in time to the places and events in his past and future.
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15th
August
2005
“The year is 50 BC. Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely… One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. And life is not easy for the Roman legionaries who garrison the fortified camps of Totorum, Aquarium, Laudanum and Compendium…”
These are very familiar words to all fans of Asterix the Gaul—it is in this historic backdrop that the adventures of Asterix the Gaul happen. The adventures of Asterix the Gaul tell in a humoristic way the adventures of the inhabitants of a small Gaulish village under the roman occupation, who resist to Caesar thanks to the magic potion prepared by their druid, which gives them a superhuman strength.
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