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Als der Töpfer Elango eines Morgens aus einem wilden Traum erwacht, weiß er, dass sich sein Leben für immer verändert hat. Er muss der Botschaft, die ihn erreicht hat, Gestalt verleihen - egal, von wem sie stammt. Ob es die Hindu-Götter oder alte Töpferlegenden waren, die ihn von einem Pferd in Flammen träumen ließen, das den Ozean durchstreift. Er muss ein großes Terrakottapferd schaffen! Und er muss es für Zohra tun, eine Muslimin, die er sc...

Ein großes zeitgeschichtliches Panorama und die ergreifende Geschichte einer ungewöhnlichen Frau, die für ihre Kunst und Freiheit lebt. "In meiner Kindheit war ich als der Junge bekannt, dessen Mutter mit einem Engländer durchgebrannt war", so beginnt die Geschichte von Myshkin und seiner Mutter Gayatri. Es sind die dreißiger Jahre, Indien hadert mit der britischen Kolonialherrschaft. Da kommen zwei Fremde in den kleinen Ort am Himalaya, de...

From the critically acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and All the Lives We Never Lived, an incisive and moving novel about the struggle for creative achievement in a world consumed by growing fanaticism and political upheaval.One night, Elango has a dream that consumes him, driving him to give it shape. The potter is determined to create a terracotta horse whose beauty will be reason enough for its existence. Yet ...

Moving its protagonists between India and Britain, The Earthspinner shows the many ways in which the East encounters the West, fanaticism wars tirelessly against reason, and the individual's creative desires struggle against a populace's basic instinct for destruction.

From the critically acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and All the Lives We Never Lived, an incisive and moving novel about the struggle for creative achievement in a world consumed by growing fanaticism and political upheaval.One night, Elango has a dream that consumes him, driving him to give it shape. The potter is determined to create a terracotta horse whose beauty will be reason enough for its existence. Yet ...

In this exquisite and intricately constructed novel, ancient myths breathe new life to provide a powerful allegorical understanding of the changed ways of loving and living in the modern world.Sara is studying at a prestigious British university and seeks a reprise from her loneliness by practising the traditional craft she learned in India when she was young: pottery.She recalls her childhood, the lost dog, Chinna, who brings a community toge...

The second volume of Kolkata in Space, Time and Imagination continues with the theme of the ordinary and the everyday, with special attention paid to the underclasses of the city, focusing on certain labouring sectors (including feminized ones) that have always been marginalized in the city's history and yet do assert their 'right to the city' even in this age of neoliberal economics that seems to be rapidly turning the city into a utopia for ...

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The first section of this volume indicates how the city has negotiated space from its formative years right up to the crucial juncture it seems to have reached recently as a result of the drastic shift towards mega-urbanity. The second section provides glimpse into the city in time, through the two global wars in the twentieth century, the Naxalite movement, the rule of the Left Front and beyond. The book seeks to understand the city not only ...

In meiner Kindheit war ich als der Junge bekannt, dessen Mutter mit einem Engländer durchgebrannt war", so beginnt die Geschichte von Myshkin und seiner Mutter Gayatri. Es sind die dreißiger Jahre, Indien hadert mit der britischen Kolonialherrschaft. Da kommen zwei Fremde in den kleinen Ort am Himalaya, der deutsche Maler Walter Spies und eine Tänzerin, und Gayatri, die immer Künstlerin sein wollte, ergreift ihre Chance, der traditionellen Ehe...

From the Man Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and "one of India's greatest living authors" (O, The Oprah Magazine), a poignant and sweeping novel set in India during World War II and the present day about a son's quest to uncover the truth about his mother. In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman. The man was in fact German, but in small‑town India in those days, all white foreign...

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Everywhere, as the author states, capitalism is triumphant and Marxism seems irrelevant'. Yet, not that long ago, many had thought that capitalism would collapse, owing to its own inherent contradictions, and be replaced by a just and egalitarian world order, following the ideals of Marxism. Anuradha Roy argues that it is important to understand this failure at the very roots, which were responsible for a huge gap between Marxism's promise and...

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War, nationalism, and trees shape lives in unforeseeable ways in this novel about a family and a country struggling with enormous transformations. "In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman" - so begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who is driven to rebel against tradition and follow her artist's instinct for freedom. Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight aga...

The book everyone is talking about for the summer" Lorraine Candy, Sunday TimesIn my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman" - so begins the story of Myshkin and his mother, Gayatri, who is driven to rebel against tradition and follow her artist's instinct for freedom.Freedom of a different kind is in the air across India. The fight against British rule is reaching a critical turn. The Nazis have come to ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 A stark and unflinching novel by a spellbinding storyteller, about religion, love and violence in the modern world. A train stops at a railway station. A young woman jumps off. She has wild hair, sloppy clothes, a distracted air. She looks Indian, yet she is somehow not. The sudden violence of what happens next leaves the other passengers gasping. The train terminates at Jarmuli, a temple town by the se...