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BOOK DETAILS: Book Title : Some Very Dignified Disclosures Author : Anumita Sharma ISBN :  9789387849068 Publisher : Pratishthaa Films and Media   Genre : General Fiction Publication : 2018 Pages : 253 Format : Paperback BOOK BLURB: It is an ordinary summer evening in a remote village near India and Nepal border; Roli’s mother and grandmother are quarrelling beside the well of their dilapidated feudal mansion. Roli is lurking in the courtyard; no one from her joint-family pays attention, and suddenly her father appears and clasps his wife’s throat. Roli watches in horror and envisions her mother’s spirit releasing from the dead body. Her future gets haunted by the twin spectre - mother’s ghost and father’s crime. The narrative moves to a small town, in the large household of a village acquaintance, where Roli shifts for higher studies, and encounters various fascinating lodgers, including an eccentric priest, who collects sundry items on stre...

Book Title : A Man Called Ove Author : Frederik Backman  ISBN : 9781449474256 Publisher : Sceptre Genre : Novel / General Fiction Publication : 2014 Pages : 305 Binding : Kindle Edition About The Book: A grumpy yet lovable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him  the bitter neighbor from hell , but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox, it is the lead-in to a comical and heartwarming tale of unkempt ...

Book Title : Americanah Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ISBN :  9780345807465 Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf Genre : General Fiction  Publication : 2013 Pages : 477 Binding : Kindle Edition Plot: Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today's globalized world. As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are leaving the country if they can. Ifemelu - beautiful, self-assured - departs for America to study. She suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships and friendships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back home: race. Obinze - the quiet, thoughtful son of a professor - had hoped to join her, but post-9/11 America will not let him in, and he plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London.   Years la...

Book Title : Release Author : Patrick Ness Genre : Young Adult, General Fiction ISBN : 9781406377279 Publisher : Walker Books Publication : May 2017 Pages : 287 Binding : Paperback Plot : Inspired by Mrs Dalloway and Judy Blume's Forever , Release is one day in the life of Adam Thorn, 17. It's a big day. Things go wrong. It's intense, and all the while, weirdness approaches... Adam Thorn is having what will turn out to be the most unsettling, difficult day of his life, with relationships fracturing, a harrowing incident at work, and a showdown between this gay teen and his preacher father that changes everything. It's a day of confrontation, running, sex, love, heartbreak, and maybe, just maybe, hope. He won't come out of it unchanged. And all the while, lurking at the edges of the story, something extraordinary and unsettling is on a collision course. My Rating : 3 ☆'s Review : Release was my first ever from ...