Anita Rau Badami
Anita Rau Badami's first novel was the hugely successful bestseller Tamarind Mem. Her bestselling second novel, The Hero’s Walk, won the Regional Commonwealth Writers Prize, Italy’s Premio Berto and was also named a Washington Post Best Book of 2001. It was also longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize and the Orange Prize for Fiction, and shortlisted for the Kiriyama Prize. Both novels have been published in many countries throughout the world. The recipient of the Marian Engel Award for a woman writer in mid-career, Badami currently resides in Montreal.
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Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37529-2 (0-307-37529-3)
March 5, 2010 | $21.00
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a fragmenting Punjab and moving between Canada and India, Can you Hear the Nightbird Call? charts the interweaving stories of three Indian women – Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo – each in search of a resting place amid rapidly changing personal and political landscapes.
The ambitious, defiant...
Written by Anita Rau Badami
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37529-2 (0-307-37529-3)
March 5, 2010 | $21.00
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Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a fragmenting Punjab and moving between Canada and India, Can you Hear the Nightbird Call? charts the interweaving stories of three Indian women – Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo – each in search of a resting place amid rapidly changing personal and political landscapes.
The ambitious, defiant...
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trade paperback.
Tamarind Mem
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37530-8 (0-307-37530-7)
January 29, 2010 | $21.00
A beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women. Set in India’s railway colonies, this is the story of Kamini and her mother Saroja, nicknamed Tamarind Mem due to her sour tongue. While in Canada beginning her graduate studies, Kamini receives a postcard from her mother saying she has sold...
Written by Anita Rau Badami
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37530-8 (0-307-37530-7)
January 29, 2010 | $21.00
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A beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women. Set in India’s railway colonies, this is the story of Kamini and her mother Saroja, nicknamed Tamarind Mem due to her sour tongue. While in Canada beginning her graduate studies, Kamini receives a postcard from her mother saying she has sold...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97605-2 (0-676-97605-0)
June 12, 2007 | $21.00
Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a fragmenting Punjab and moving between Canada and India, Can you Hear the Nightbird Call? charts the interweaving stories of three Indian women – Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo – each in search of a resting place amid rapidly changing personal and political landscapes.
The ambitious, defiant...
Written by Anita Rau Badami
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97605-2 (0-676-97605-0)
June 12, 2007 | $21.00
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Set against the tumultuous backdrop of a fragmenting Punjab and moving between Canada and India, Can you Hear the Nightbird Call? charts the interweaving stories of three Indian women – Bibi-ji, Leela and Nimmo – each in search of a resting place amid rapidly changing personal and political landscapes.
The ambitious, defiant...
Also available as an
eBook.
Tamarind Mem
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97636-6 (0-676-97636-0)
March 2, 2004 | $21.00
A beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women. Set in India’s railway colonies, this is the story of Kamini and her mother Saroja, nicknamed Tamarind Mem due to her sour tongue. While in Canada beginning her graduate studies, Kamini receives a postcard from her mother saying she has sold...
Written by Anita Rau Badami
Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97636-6 (0-676-97636-0)
March 2, 2004 | $21.00
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A beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women. Set in India’s railway colonies, this is the story of Kamini and her mother Saroja, nicknamed Tamarind Mem due to her sour tongue. While in Canada beginning her graduate studies, Kamini receives a postcard from her mother saying she has sold...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Hero's Walk
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97360-0 (0-676-97360-4)
March 13, 2001 | $21.00
After the release of Anita Rau Badami's critically acclaimed first novel, Tamarind Mem, it was evident a promising new talent had joined the Canadian literary community. Her dazzling literary follow-up is The Hero's Walk, a novel teeming with the author's trademark tumble of the haphazard beauty, wreckage and folly of ordinary...
Written by Anita Rau Badami
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97360-0 (0-676-97360-4)
March 13, 2001 | $21.00
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After the release of Anita Rau Badami's critically acclaimed first novel, Tamarind Mem, it was evident a promising new talent had joined the Canadian literary community. Her dazzling literary follow-up is The Hero's Walk, a novel teeming with the author's trademark tumble of the haphazard beauty, wreckage and folly of ordinary...
