Anisha Sridhar
Books: A Re-Telling of 'Antigone'
Anisha Sridhar - October 10, 2012
When
Nizam, a crippled Afghani woman, arrives at an American military base looking
for her brother Yusuf’s body, she sets off a chain of events that tests the
convictions of the soldiers.
Books: Love in the Internet Age
Anisha Sridhar - September 20, 2012
Freudenberger
visits the theme of love in the age of the internet in her new novel, The Newlyweds.
Books: Finding Love and God
Anisha Sridhar - February 22, 2012
Ayad
Akhtar’s first novel, American Dervish, is
a coming-of-age story about a young American Muslim, Hayat Shah, who grows up
in 1980s Milwaukee.
Books: After the 1993 Mumbai Riots
Anisha Sridhar - January 11, 2012
The World We Found is Thrity Umrigar's sixth novel and a rumination on the effects of the '93 Mumbai riots on four friends.
Books: Teenage Existential Angst
Anisha Sridhar - January 4, 2012
Fifteen-year-old Tina is thrown for a loop when her best friend since kindergarten deserts her and starts hanging out with the popular kids. Alone but defiant, Tina chooses to spend her time on her existentialist diary.
Books: Iran's Disappeared
Anisha Sridhar - November 16, 2011
Zahra's Paradise is a fictionalized account about the search for a young university student who fails to come home one night after participating in the 2009 protests in Iran.
Books: Children's Book Set in War-time Shanghai
Anisha Sridhar - November 2, 2011
Imaginatively illustrated using a mix of paper-cut collages, sketches, portraits and old family photographs, The House Baba Built by Caldecott Medalist Ed Young tells the story of the author's childhood in war-time Shanghai.