A truly funny and perceptive story of a young woman's fight with diets, marriage, sex and IndiaIt is the late 1970s and Manjula Padmanabhan is in her mid-twenties trying to find her way in the world. Life in Bombay is proving tricky: there are the visits to Dr Prasad's diet clinic where 'the body beautiful' comes in the form of photographs of gloomy nudes; lunch at her brother's house where snacks are thrown across the room and caught by the dog and there are the intriguing Dutch visitors . . . As relationships become ever more chaotic, Manjula begins to think that the West is really her spiritual home. She sets off with her boyfriend Prashant to the suburbs of New York where the American dream appears on a plate: daytime TV, mountains of food and visits to the New York City Morgue. But this is just the beginning of the author's journey as she travels to Europe where, it seems, her quest for contentment might have ended.With a playwright's playful ear for dialogue and incisive wit Manjula Padmanabhan has written her story - a tale that will touch any young woman who has ever wondered where and when she might begin to fit in.

Dark Fire

Biographies & Memoirs

Padmanabhan, Manjula

Arts & Literature

Picador

Om, a young man, is driven by unemployment to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make his home into a germ-free zone. When his brother Jeetu arrives unexpectedly, he is taken away as the donor. Om’s wife Jaya is left alone. Will she too be seduced into selling her body for use by the rich Westerners?

Harvest

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Aurora Metro Books

Hidden Fires

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Seagull Books Pvt.Ltd ,India

Where's That Cat?

Children's Books

Tulika Publishers

Animal Alphabet

Animals

HARVEST [Paperback] Manjula Padmanabhan

Humor & Satire

Hachette India

On a trip to the Taj Mahal, Minnie secretly brings Pooni along though animals aren't allowed in. But wait - the naughty cat slips off on her own adventure! After Where's That Cat? Manjula Padmanabhan takes us on another Pooni chase, the drama this time set against the magnificent backdrop of the Taj Mahal. Enjoy a lively tour! * Exquisite replications of the Taj Mahal give children close glimpses of the famous monument* A sure winner of a storyline - the hunt for a cat that's got away* Incredibly detailed illustrations filled with humour by a well known artist-cartoonist* Spotting the cat in each of the pictures adds to the fun

Pooni at the Taj Mahal

<div>Three days to go before a gigantic killer asteroid will end life on Earth! Everyone is in a panic. Everyone, that is, but Vanita, who has things to do. Such as saving the planet. She has a plan drawn up to the minutest detail. All pure science. With just a little help from fridge magnets, a little puppy--and a special "shrinking" gift that she has. This is a sure winner of a storyline! In a world of superheroes, this spectacular science fiction tale featuring a supergirl. The incredibly detailed "out-of-this-world" illustrations filled with humor in this side-splittingly hilarious book from a master storyteller with a straight face and her tongue firmly in cheek!</div>

Shrinking Vanita [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2018] Manjula Padmanabhan

Humor

In the country she inhabits, Meiji is unique. The only surviving female in a land where women have been exterminated, she has been brought up in secret, cloistered and protected, by three men she knows as her uncles - Eldest, Middle and Youngest. Now, as she approaches adolescence, her guardians must ensure that the dictatorial clone Generals who rule their world never get to know of her existence, and it falls to Youngest to escort Meiji on a long and treacherous journey through ravaged landscapes to the very edge of the world known to them. An adventure story like no other, a tale of love and self-discovery in several unexpected layers, Escape is a novel that is as unsettling as it is unputdownable. In its captivating portrayal of tender relationships blooming and thriving in a vicious, forbidding landscape, it bears out Manjula Padmanabhan's genius as a creator of compelling alternative worlds.

Escape

Genre Fiction

This is the story of Meiji - the only girl who has remained untouched and unmutilated in a country that has savaged its entire female population. Having saved her from certain death in the new Dark Age that has come upon their homeland, her guardian, Youngest, has transported her to the only place where she can remain safe - an Island where wounded girls are, sometimes literally, stitched back together and given a new life. But the Island itself is a menacing place, and Meiji may be in more danger than ever before. Now Youngest must find a way to infiltrate its odd environs to see what has become of his beloved girl, and escape once more...The Island of Lost Girls showcases, yet again, Manjula Padmanabhan's genius at creating searing landscapes and alternate, sometimes brutal, worlds while reaffirming the beauty and the ugliness, the cruelty and the tremendous compassion, that essentially makes us human.

The Island of Lost Girls

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