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A long way home

"The miraculous and triumphant story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity long-since left behind"--.

Two lives

2005
The author relates the story of his relationship with his uncle Shanti Behari Seth, who was sent to Germany as a young man in the 1930s to study medicine and dentistry, and Shanti's wife, Helga Gerda Caro, a Jewish German.

An Indian in cowboy country

stories from an immigrant's life
2007
Follows the experiences of Satish Sharma, an India-born engineer, as he overcomes cultural barriers to succeed in Texas.

A Long way home

The story of a young man who rediscovers not only his childhood life and home...but an identity long-since left behind.

Bitter sweets

2007
Rashid Karim, a young man from one of Calcutta's best families, is shocked to learn on his wedding night that his bride is not the educated, seventeen-year-old child of a successful businessman, but Henna, an illiterate, thirteen-year-old shopkeeper's daughter, and the lie echoes down through fifty years until Shona, Rashid and Henna's daughter, now a mother herself, decides to inject a little honesty into the family tree.

A group of one

2001
Learning from her grandmother that her family was active in the Quit India movement of 1942, a rebellion against nearly two centuries of British occupation, gives fifteen-year-old Tara new pride in her heritage, but she still objects when her teacher implies she is not a "regular Canadian.".

The city of death

British schoolboy Ash Mistry, the reincarnation of the great Indian hero Ashoka and an agent of the goddess of death, faces the evil Lord Savage again after the villain sends his minions to capture Gemma, Ash's unrequited crush.

The City of Death

British schoolboy Ash Mistry, the reincarnation of the great Indian hero Ashoka and an agent of the goddess of death, faces the evil Lord Savage again after the villain sends his minions to capture Gemma, Ash's unrequited crush.

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