Tania James

Après que sa mère a été assassinée par des braconniers, un jeune éléphant terrorise désormais les villageois de l’Inde du Sud. Il piège ses victimes dont il ensevelit les corps sous des tas de feuill

Après que sa mère a été assassinée par des braconniers, un jeune éléphant terrorise désormais les villageois de l’Inde du Sud. Il piège ses victimes dont il ensevelit les corps sous des tas de feuill

When seventeen-year-old Anju wins an all-expenses-paid scholarship to study in New York for a year, she jumps at the chance to leave her home town in Kerala and embrace all that America has to offer. But there are bittersweet consequences ahead, not only for Anju, but also for the father and older sister she has left behind. For when the lie behnd Anjus scholarship is suddenly revealed she is left without a visa and, too proud to confess to her family, goes into hiding. She accepts a job in a suburban beauty salon and the offer of a roof over her head from the kindly Bird, who strangely seems to know more about Anjus past than Anju herself has told her. Meanwhile, Anjus family are on a mission to find her, trying not to contemplate the possibility that they might never see her again Atlas of Unknownsis vibrant, moving and breathtakingly told -- the debut of an irresistible and utterly original new voice in fiction.

An utterly irresistible first novel: The story of two sisters, the yearning to disappear into another country, and the powerful desire to return to the known world. Dazzling and deeply absorbing.... One of the most exciting debut novels since Zadie Smiths White Teeth. San Francisco ChronicleLinno is a gifted artist, despite a childhood accident that has left her badly maimed, and Anju is one of Keralas most promising students. Both girls dream of coming to the United States, but it is Anju who wins a scholarship to a prestigious school in New York. She seizes it, even though it means lying and betraying her sister. When her lie is discovered, Anju disappears. Back in Kerala, Linno is undergoing a transformation of her own. But when she learns of Anjus disappearance, Linno strikes out farther still, with a scheme to procure a visa so that she can come to America to look for her sister and save them both.

From the acclaimed author of Atlas of Unknowns, a bravura collection of short storiesset, by turns, in London, Sierra Leone, and the American Midwestthat captures the yearning and dislocation of young people around the world. Funny, deeply tender, and each-and-every-one memorable. Nathan Englander, bestselling author of For the Relief of Unbearable UrgesIn Light & Luminous, a gifted instructor of Indian dance falls victim to the vanity and insecurities that have followed her into middle age. In The Scriptological Review: A Last Letter from the Editor, a damaged young man obsessively studies his fathers handwriting in hopes of making sense of his suicide. And in What to Do with Henry, a white woman from Ohio takes in the illegitimate child her husband left behind in Sierra Leone, as well as an orphaned chimpanzee who comes to anchor this strange new family. With Aerogrammes, Tania James once again introduces us to a host of delicate, complicated, and beautifully realized characters who find themselves separated from their friends, families, and communities by race, pride, and grief.

A Vintage Shorts Short Story Month SelectionCertainly, London at the turn of the twentieth century is home to the world championship of wrestling, but the British wrestlers know nothing of the giant Kikkar Singh, for example, who once uprooted an acacia tree bare-handed, just because it was disrupting his view. They know nothing of pehlwans: they know nothing of the brothers Gama and Imam. The Lion and Panther have come from Lahore to become championsbut first they must find an opponent willing to be faced. Lion and Panther in London captures the yearning and dislocation of young men far from home, even as brotherly rivalry fails to disappearthe explosive, warm-hearted first story in Tania Jamess acclaimed collection Aerogrammes. An eBook short.

Loot held me spellbound from the first page...an expertly-plotted, deeply affecting novel Maggie OFarrellYoung toy maker and dreamer Abbas is whisked away to Tipu Sultans glorious palace in Mysore and ordered to create a musical tiger to delight Tipus sons.When he is apprenticed to eccentric clockmaker Monsieur Du Leze, Abbas finds an unexpected friend who encourages his skill and hunger for learning. Through Du Leze, he also meets the unforgettable Jehanne, who has questions and ambitions of her own.But when British soldiers attack and loot Mysore, Abbass world is turned upside down and his prized tiger is shipped off to a country estate in England. In order to carve out his place in the world, he must follow.A heros quest, a love story, an exuberant heist novel that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across the world, Loot is a dazzling, wildly inventive and irresistible feat of storytelling.A thrilling, absorbing and immersive tale of artistry, adventure and romance Claire FullerA cinematic novel of empire, colonialism and romance...Loot asks who gets written out of history and whyGuardianImmersive and beautifully written...a clever and absorbing novel about empire and belonging Sunday Times

Al cuidado de su padre, un cristiano poco convencido, y su abuela, una mujer de gran carácter que guarda la sabiduría de generaciones, las hermanas Linno y Anju Vallara se crían en un pequeño pueblo de Kerala, en el sudoeste de la India. Linno tiene un talento innato para el dibujo, y Anju, una de las mejores estudiantes de la region, sueña con ir a Estados Unidos. Asi que, cuando le ofrecen una beca para estudiar en una exclusiva escuela de Nueva York, no duda un segundo en aceptar, pese a que ello suponga, de cierta forma, traicionar a su hermana. Acogida por una acomodada familia neoyorquina de origen indio, Anju descubrira un mundo lleno de privilegios y desafios que hasta entonces nunca habia imaginado. Linno, por su parte, vivira una extraordinaria transformacion, apartandose del camino que su padre habia dispuesto para ella y valiendose de su talento artistico para iniciar su propia andadura por la vida. Pero cuando la familia pierde todo contacto con Anju, Linno traza un plan para descubrir el paradero de su hermana menor. Frente a un mapa de la inmensa y desconocida metropoli, emprendera un viaje apasionante, un itinerario que la guiara a traves de su mundo interior hacia la revelacion de un secreto familiar insospechado. Reconocida como una de las escritoras mas destacadas de la floreciente literatura indionorteamericana, Tania James combina una original y personalisima voz narrativa con un diestro manejo de las claves de la novela clasica: un argumento impecable lleno de giros inesperados y un puñado de personajes inolvidables cuyos desvelos por conciliar los sueños con la realidad los conducen hacia dolorosos misterios arrinconados en el pasado familiar.

Una épica y fascinante novela histórica ambientada en la India, Inglaterra y Francia del siglo XVIII, que sigue el sueño de un joven decidido a dejar huella en el mundo «Adictivamente absorbente.»