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Did you know….The Booker Prize
The Man Booker Prize is 40 years old this year. This prestigious literary prize is awarded to a novel written in English by a citizen of the Commonwealth of Nations, The Republic of Ireland or Zimbabwe. It is sponsored by the Man Group plc of London, an investment management business whose origins go back to a barrel making business on the Thames in 1783. The award is currently worth £50,000 and this year’s winner is Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Indian authors who have won the prize are Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai and Aravind Adiga. Rohinton Mistry, who was born in Bombay and currently lives in Toronto, has been shortlisted three times. For more information about the prize, visit www.themanbookerprize.com

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Tales of India

Family Matters
Rohinton Mistry
Set against the backdrop of a politically corrupt Bombay in the 1990s, this is a story of a family stretched and tested by religion and duty to family. Retired professor Nariman Vakeel once loved another woman, but succumbed to his parents, and Parsi society’s wishes, and married instead a widow with two children. Now elderly and stricken with Parkinson’s disease, he is moved from the large apartment he shares with his stepchildren into the tiny apartment of the family of his daughter Roxanna. Lives change in this beautifully told story.
Hindi-Bindi Club
Monica Pradhan
The Hindi-Bindi Club has been meeting regularly for decades for food, gossip and friendship. The women of the club all share a common heritage – they left their native India as young women – and are all now mothers of grown American daughters. Told in alternating chapters, each woman is given voice and long-held secrets are revealed. This is a story of East meets West, of the importance of food (includes recipes), and the special bond between mothers and daughters.

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