Author: Atiq Rahimi

The translation of Syngue Sabour first published by POL, Paris, won the prestigious Goncourt Award in Frence in 2008. As put in the preface to the book by Khalid Hosseini (author of The Kite Runner):

"Atiq Rahimi gives face and voice to one unforgettable woman -and, one could argue, offers her as a proxy for the grievances of millions.
The plot could not be simpler. The entire story unfolds in one room, where an unnamed woman nurses her badly injured husband, who lies she speaks to him. Tentatively at first, until gradually, the dam ruptures, letting loose a flood of startling confessions. With increasing boldness, the woman reveals how she has resented her husband, her disappointments in him, her fiercely guarded secrets, her desires and hopes, the pains and sorrows she has suffered at his hands. As her husband lies before her like a stone -indeed like the legendary titular stone, which absorbs the anguish of all who confess to it- the woman suddenly finds herself free from all restraint and her monologues reach a fevered pitch. What pours out of her is not only a brave and shocking confession, but a savage indictment of war, the brutality of men and the religious, marital, and cultural norms that continually assault Afghan women, leave them with no recourse but to absorb without complaint, like a patience stone.
It is to Atiq Rahimi's credit that his heroine is no saint suffering quietly in purdah. Nor is she much of a heroine. As the woman's one-way discourse with her presumably unconscious husband goes on, the layers are peeled back, revelations come forth, and what emerges is the portrait of a complex and nuanced human being, wordless, and helpless."

ISBN: 978-81-88908-05-9
Price: Rs. 120/-
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For one hundred years have flowed the rivers Kharkei and Swarnarekha, meeting and mingling to cradle the Adivasis and the Tatas in Jamshedpur.

ISBN: 978-81-88908-04-2
Price: Rs. 450/-
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This is a collection of the famous quotations from the works of the greatest playwright of all time, William Shakespeare.

ISBN: 978-81-88908-00-4
Price: Rs. 150/-

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Author: Andand Mohan Sahay

An Autobiography of a Nationalist By Anand Mohan Sahay

With Excerpts from Asha’s Diary by Bharati Choudhry ‘Asha’ The book gives us an insider’s look at the times prior to India’s freedom and independence. Gandhi’s magnanimity, Rajendra Prasad’s steely quiet, Nehru’s deft and determined ways and the inspiration that was given by Netaji - are all described with humour and a directness that brings the historical figures alive. It also contains excerpts from Asha’s Diary written by ex-Lt. Bharati Choudhry ‘Asha’ of INA’s Rani of Jhansi Regiment providing fascinating personalised observations of Netaji, the Second World War in Japan and the Burma front.

ISBN: 978-81-88908-03-5
Price: Rs. 495/-

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Author:    Marguerite Duras
One of the most heartbreaking statements against Nazism in Duras's work appears in her text La Douleur (P.O.L., 1985) translated as Shei Bedonnar Smriti where she describes her impatience when, from the windows of her house at the Rue Saint-Benoît (Paris), she gazes at people quietly walking by and she wants to shout out loud that inside that very room there is a man, her husband, who has come back alive from the war. Duras was one of the founders of the New Wave Literary and cinema movements in France .

ISBN: 978-81-88908-01-1
Price:    Rs. 150/-

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The latest from the Gavalda weave of the most heart warming tales about inter-personal relations. Successfully filmed by Chabrol, this original French book now translated into over twenty languages the world over, enters the world of Bengali literature.

ISBN: ISBN - 81-88908-17-7
Price:  Rs. 220/-

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Author:    Marie Darrieussecq
The author Marie Darrieussecq has won literary accolades the world over. Translated into Bengali from the author's original work in French, Naissance des fantomes tells the story of what happens when a woman's husband disappears one day. The novel forms an intricate tapestry of image-words, like an art masterpiece.

ISBN: 81-88908-14-2
Price: Rs. 100/-

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Author:    Yasmina Reza
The protagonist, Samuel, is the elderly narrator of the author's delirious dyspeptic novel, who refuses to be happy and thereby creates an epic, blasphemous and hilarious book. Yasmina Reza the celebrated author has created a provocative work in this novel, a translation of the original French Une Desolation that provides a darkly humorous reading. Known for her plays, the author has now delved into the field of novels.

ISBN: 81-88908-15-0
Price: Rs. 100/-

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Author:    Franck Pavloff
This is the Bengali translation of the wonderful little allegorical tale of the original French Matin Brun , which has been acclaimed internationally, translated in several languages in Europe and enjoyed a phenomenal success as an anti-fascist tale. Bengali readers with their political maturity and sensitivity will be enthralled by the tale.

ISBN: 81-88908-16-9
Price:  Rs. 45/-

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Author:    Surekha Tenneti Venugopal
A personalized depiction of the multi-faceted, legendary J. R. D. Tata, a pictorial book authored by the first woman author on the subject. The book is based on interviews of those JRD met, those close to JRD from the current Managing Director to the office peon and those who met JRD briefly but were influenced by JRD's towering personality.

Price: Rs. 495/- (Out of print)

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Author:    Jean Genet
Written in French in 1949 and the most widely read of his books, “Thief's Journal” or “Ek Chorer Korcha” is the first Bengali translation of anything written by Genet. Published with the assistance of the French Embassy in India , the Genet translation has had surprisingly popular appeal and selling very well.

Price: Rs. 100/-
(To be reprinted in 2010 in paperback)
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Author:    Dhruba Kumar Dutt
Immediate Post-Independence study of management in industries by D.K.Dutt

Price:  Rs. 695/- (Out of Stock, out of print)  
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Author:    Rabindranath Tagore
The Skeleton & Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore in English Translation by Joyasree Mukherji in hard bound edition.

Price:   $20 (Price includes  $12 shipping charges)

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Author:    Anna Gavalda
The second in the series of the PPBA French Literature Translation, Anna Gavalda's book in French has been translated into 31 languages worldwide and now is published in Bengali by Purple Peacock Books. The book caused a stir in the recently concluded Kolkata Book Fair with remarkable media coverage from the Bengali, other Indian and international newspapers, magazines and Television and the book had eager buyers queuing up.

ISBN 81-88908-02-9
Price:  Rs. 80/-

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The Everyday Use Dictionary of Proverbs, Idioms &Sayings,

Author:    N.A.
Teaching English and also to teach Hindi

Price: Rs. 65/-   
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Shikarir Shikar - Translation of La Course au Tigre,

Author:    Emmanuel Pierrat
A Frenchman's sojourn in Kolkata in the early 70's

(Out of print and out of stock)
Price:    $15 (Price includes  $11 shipping charges)  
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