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Broken Threads
Mishal Husain
Fourth Estate, pp 336, Rs 499
This gripping family history follows a nation becoming ever more divided in the face of social inequality, civil disobedience and the Second World War.
Metamorphoses
Karolina Watroba
Hachette, pp 256, Rs 799
This is a non-chronological journey through Kafka’s life, drawing together literary scholarship with the responses of his readers through time.
Talashnama
Ismail Darbesh and V Ramaswamy (translator)
HarperCollins, pp 572, Rs 699
This is a thrilling literary tour de force, where love, religion, modernity and politics collide. It is also an evocative inquiry into the uncertainties and challenges of being Muslim in today’s India.
The Big Book Of Odia Literature
Manu Dash
Penguin, pp 352, Rs NA
This careful curation features essays, stories, poems, and plays that have defined the culture of a state and a people. A first of its kind, the volume is for lovers of linguistic history and literary traditions.
Book Of Nature
Deepa Agarwal
Hachette, pp 288, Rs 499
Read some of the best writing by wildlife experts, bestselling authors, nature writers, adventurers and explorers. Feel oh-so-lucky about being on this life-giving Earth, and open your eyes to how we are harming it and endangering our future.