The Birth Lottery and Other Surprises By Shehan Karunatilaka

The Birth Lottery and Other Surprises By Shehan KarunatilakaIt's a simple car bomb, and it's rigged to a busload of schoolgirls. No one knows it is there except for me.' Unpleasant truths await a Sri Lankan president in the back of a London cab. An advertising agency has to come to terms with a blown up collection of pictures of its employees' penises. A man presumed missing, quietly journals by the sea. A being dispassionately recalls the numerous births it had taken and absurd fates it had to endure. An

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a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home in Charlotte

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Through extraordinary first-hand accounts Amitav Ghosh presents a compelling chronicle of the turmoil of our times

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the founder of the Mauryan Empire

A chance encounter with the eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything: his ideas and his passion are intoxicating

Chanakya Neeti is a special treatise in Sanskrit literature which was written for improving human life

this is a step-by-step guide to the theory and practice of yoga for those who seek to know it better

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