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THE NIGHT CIRCUS
₨ 2,495The circus arrives without warning. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Against the grey sky the towering tents are striped black and white. A sign hanging upon iron gates reads:
Opens at Nightfall
Closes at DawnAs dusk shifts to twilight, tiny lights begin to flicker all over the tents, as though the whole circus is covered in fireflies. When the tents are aglow, sparkling against the night sky, the sign lights up:
Le Cirque des R?ves
The Circus of DreamsThe gates shudder and unlock, seemingly by their own volition.
They swing outward, inviting the crowd inside.Now the circus is open.
Now you may enter.
ISBN: 9781784871055
Publisher: VINTAGE
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Author: ERIN MORGENSTERN -
THE MEMORY POLICE
₨ 2,245Hat, ribbon, bird rose.
To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed.
When a young novelist discovers that her editor is in danger of being taken away by the Memory Police, she desperately wants to save him. For some reason, he doesn’t forget, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult for him to hide his memories. Who knows what will vanish next?
ISBN: 9781784700447
Publisher: VINTAGE
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Author: YOKO OGAWA -
SPUTNIK SWEETHEART
₨ 4,445A beautifully packaged hardback edition of Haruki Murakami s classic mystery story about love, the cosmos and other fictional universes, now with a new introduction by the author Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. Miu is glamorous and successful. Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life: what is sexual desire, and should she ever tell Miu how she feels for her? Meanwhile K wonders whether he should confess his own unrequited love for Sumire. Then, a desperate Miu calls from a small Greek island: Sumire has mysteriously vanished… Confirms Murakami as a master of his craft… Out of this world Time Out
ISBN: 9781529913569
Publisher: VINTAGE
Subtitle:
Author: HARUKI MURAKAMI -
SAPIENS
₨ 2,295THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human in the perfect read for these unprecedented times. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us. In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we’re going. I would recommend Sapiens to anyone who’s interested in the history and future of our species’ Bill Gates ‘Interesting and provocative… It gives you a sense of how briefly we’ve been on this Earth’ Barack Obama **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
ISBN: PB001
Publisher: VINTAGE
Subtitle: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND
Author: YUVAL NOAH HARARI -
HOMO DEUS
₨ 1,895Sapiens showed us where we came from. In uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we’re going.
‘Homo Deus will shock you. It will entertain you. It will make you think in ways you had not thought before’ Daniel Kahneman, bestselling author of Thinking, Fast and Slow
Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares that will shape the twenty-first century and beyond – from overcoming death to creating artificial life.
It asks the fundamental questions: how can we protect this fragile world from our own destructive power? And what does our future hold?
ISBN: 9781784703936
Publisher: VINTAGE
Subtitle: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TOMORROW
Author: YUVAL NOAH HARARI -
THE TIME TRAVELLER’S WIFE
₨ 1,795Rediscover the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry.The pair met when Clare was just six and Henry thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty.Impossible but true.Now adapted into the major Sky TV series, The Time Traveler’s Wife is the international bestselling novel of a time-altering love. Henry is a librarian who suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets, finding himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. Meanwhile, Clare is an artist waiting all her life for her great love Henry to appear. In the face of this force neither can prevent nor control, Henry and Clare’s struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving and entirely unforgettable.’Dark, unpredictable, incredibly clever and a modern romance’ Grazia
ISBN: 9781784878290 AUTHOR: AUDREY NIFFENEGGER
ISBN: 9781784878290
Publisher: VINTAGE
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NO MISSION IS IMPOSSIBLE
₨ 2,495A riveting follow-up to Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal?s account of the most memorable missions of the Mossad, No Mission Is Impossible sheds light on some of the most harrowing, nail-biting operations of the Israeli Special Forces.
In No Mission Is Impossible, Michael Bar-Zohar and Nissim Mishal depict in electrifying detail major battles, raids in enemy territory, and the death- defying commando missions of the Israeli Special Forces. The stories are often of victories, but sometimes also of immense failures, and they run side by side with the accounts of the lives and accomplishments of some of Israel?s most prominent figures.
Captivating and eye-opening, No Mission Is Impossible is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how these crucial missions shaped Israel, and the world at large.
ISBN: 9780857987143 AUTHOR: MICHAEL BAR-ZOHAR, NISSIM MISHAL
ISBN: 9780857987143
Publisher: VINTAGE
Subtitle: THE DEATH-DEFYING MISSIONS OF THE ISRAELI SPECIAL FORCES
Author: MICHAEL BAR-ZOHAR -
THE GENE
₨ 2,775The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes and defines humans, that governs our form and function.The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856, where a monk stumbles on the idea of a ‘unit of heredity’. It intersects with Darwin’s theory of evolution and collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s. The gene transforms post-war biology. It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality, temperament, choice and free will. Above all, this is a story driven by human ingenuity and obsessive minds-from Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick, James Watson and Rosalind Franklin and the thousands of scientists still working to understand the code of codes. This is an epic, moving history of a scientific idea being brought to life, by theauthor of The Emperor of All Maladies. But woven through The Gene, like a red line, is also an intimate history-the story of Mukherjee’s own family and its recurring pattern of mental illness, reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives. These concerns reverberate even more urgently today as we learn to ‘read’ and ‘write’ the human genome-unleashing the potential to change the fates and identities of our children. Majestic in its ambition and unflinching in its honesty, The Gene gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity-and a vision of both humanity’s past and future.
ISBN: 9781529114782
AUTHOR: SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE
ISBN: 9781529114782
Publisher: VINTAGE
Subtitle: AN INTIMATE HISTORY
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NOTHING BUT THE NIGHT
₨ 1,195Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long-estranged father. Arthur’s fear and aversion to the man is powerful, yet his compulsion to see his father is irresistible. After their meeting, Arthur is propelled into a night of drinking and spontaneous intimacy with a beautiful young woman. But as the memories of childhood trauma surface and disorientate, Arthur’s night out rises towards the pitch of disaster.
ISBN: 9781784873998
AUTHOR: JOHN WILLIAMS
ISBN: 9781784873998
Publisher: VINTAGE
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SAPIENS
₨ 2,995We are the most advanced and most destructive animals ever to have lived. What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we’re going. Sapiens is a thrilling account of humankind’s extraordinary history – from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age – and our journey from insignificant apes to rulers of the world ‘It tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world, and it is written in unforgettably vivid language. You will love it!’ Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs and Steel.
Author: YUVAL NOAH HARARI
ISBN: 9780099590088
Publisher: VINTAGE
Subtitle: A BRIEF HISTORY OF HUMANKIND
Author: YUVAL NOAH HARARI -
WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR
₨ 1,695MOST LOVED. MOST RED. Ten must-read modern classics.
‘Even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.’
We often ask ourselves how we should be living. In Paul Kalanithi’s deeply moving memoir, he is forced to ask himself the question, ‘how do you live when you are dying?’ At thirty-six, having just finished his training to become a neurosurgeon, he was faced with a devastating cancer diagnosis. This is his memoir. From student, to doctor, to patient, to father, and to writer, Paul preserved his last years and legacy in this truly unforgettable book.
This magnetic, hopeful book was first published in 2016. Adored by millions of readers, it is a Vintage Classic already and a book that will stand the test of time.
Author: PAUL KALANITHI
ISBN: 9781784875886
ISBN: 9781784875886
Publisher: VINTAGE
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THE LOST ART OF SCRIPTURE
₨ 2,545‘An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world’s religious texts can be a force for good today’ John Barton, author of A History of the Bible. In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to incite violence, hatred and division. The Quran, the Torah and the Bible are often employed selectively to underwrite arbitrary and subjective views. They are believed to be divinely ordained; they are claimed to contain eternal truths. But as Karen Armstrong, a world authority on religious affairs, shows in this fascinating journey through millennia of history, this narrow reading of scripture is a relatively recent phenomenon. Armstrong argues that only by rediscovering an open engagement with their holy texts will the world’s religions be able to curtail arrogance and intolerance. And if scripture is used to engage with the world in more meaningful and compassionate ways, we will find that it still has a great deal to teach us.
AUTHOR: KAREN ARMSTRONG
ISBN: 9781784705329
ISBN: 9781784705329
Publisher: VINTAGE
Subtitle: RESCUING THE SACRED TEXTS
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₨ 3,095This is the real world, there is no doubt about that. But in this world, there are two moons in the sky. In this world, the fates of two people, Tengo and Aomame, are closely intertwined. They are each, in their own way, doing something very dangerous. And in this world, there seems no way to save them both.
Author: HARUKI MURAKAMI
ISBN: 9780099578079
ISBN: 9780099578079
Publisher: VINTAGE
Subtitle: THE COMPLETE TRILOGY
Author: HARUKI MURAKAMI -
ORIENTALISM
₨ 2,195More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said’s groundbreaking critique of the West’s historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East has become a modern classic.
In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of ‘orientalism’ to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined ‘the orient’ simply as ‘other than’ the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding. Essential, and still eye-opening, Orientalism remains one of the most important books written about our divided world.
Author: EDWARD W. SAID
ISBN: 9780394740676
ISBN: 9780394740676
Publisher: VINTAGE
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TOUCHING THE VOID
₨ 1,901Joe Simpson and his partner, Simon Yates, tackled the unclimbed West Face of the remote 21,000 ft Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes. In June 1985 they achieved the summit before disaster struck. In “Touching the Void” they tell their story.
ISBN: 0099452294
Publisher: VINTAGE
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Author: JOE SIMPSON -
LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA
₨ 895In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs–yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, nine months, and four days after he first declared his love for Fermina, he will do so again.With humorous sagacity and consummate craft, García Márquez traces an exceptional half-century story of unrequited love. Though it seems never to be conveniently contained, love flows through the novel in many wonderful guises–joyful, melancholy, enriching, ever surprising.
ISBN: 9780307388810
Publisher: VINTAGE
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Author: GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ -
THE OVERSTORY
₨ 1,095‘It changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it’ Barack Obama
‘Really, just one of the best novels, period’ Ann Patchett
A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe. The perfect literary escape.
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crewmember in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.
This is the story of these and five other strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural world, who are brought together in a last stand to save it from catastrophe.
‘It’s not possible for Powers to write an uninteresting book’ Margaret Atwood
ISBN: 9781784708245
Publisher: VINTAGE
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Author: RICHARD POWERS -
THE ISLAMIC ENLIGHTENMENT
₨ 1,545The Muslim world has often been accused of a failure to modernise and adapt. Yet in this sweeping narrative and provocative retelling of modern history, Christopher de Bellaigue charts the forgotten story of the Islamic Enlightenment – the social movements, reforms and revolutions that transfigured the Middle East from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Modern ideals and practices were embraced across the region, including the adoption of modern medicine, the emergence of women from purdah and the development of democracy.
The Islamic Enlightenment looks behind the sensationalist headlines in order to foster a genuine understanding of Islam and its relationship to the West. It is essential reading for anyone engaged in the state of the world today.
ISBN: 9780099578703
Publisher: VINTAGE
Subtitle: THE MODERN STRUGGLE BETWEEN FAITH AND REASON
Author: CHRISTOPHER DE BELLAIGUE -
GENGHIS KHAN
₨ 1,895Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known, whose empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon? Credited by some with paving the way for the Renaissance, condemned by others for being the most heinous murderer in history, who was Genghis Khan? His actual name was Temujin, and the story of his success is that of the Mongol people: a loose collection of fractious tribes who tended livestock, considered bathing taboo and possessed an unparallelled genius for horseback warfare. United under Genghis, a strategist of astonishing cunning and versatility, they could dominate any sedentary society they chose. Combining fast-paced accounts of battles with rich cultural background and the latest scholarship, Frank McLynn brings vividly to life the strange world of the Mongols, describes Temujin’s rise from boyhood outcast to become Genghis Khan, and provides the most accurate and absorbing account yet of one of the most powerful men ever to have lived.
ISBN: 9781784703509
Publisher: VINTAGE
Subtitle: THE MAN WHO CONQUERED THE WORLD
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