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A Googly in the Compound: A novel of the Raj
by Boman Desai
Middletown, DE, 2021
ISBN 979-8716256620
A googly, in cricket, is a ball bowled to catch the batsman off guard; expected to spin in one direction, it takes off in another. And that is what the author Boman Desai does. A novel of love and war, A Googly in the Compound spans the years from 1910 to 1945, heading from rural Navsari to cosmopolitan Bombay, to 1930s London, to war-torn Burma and Mesopotamia.
It is a fascinating story of Parsi bloodlines, romance and intrigue, counter-pointed by the events that made WWII such a watershed in the history of both India and the world.
A “class” act of historical proportions, [the novel] rips into the conventional class hierarchies between British and Indians, upper class Indians and lower. —Prasenjit Chaudhury, Deccan Herald
A family’s long-simmering tensions boil over during a trip to the old homestead in this literary novel. The result is a wide lensed meditation on power dynamics – within countries and within families”. Kirkus Reviews
Zoroaster: a Global Perspective
by Shahin Nezhad translated from Persian by Dr. Farshid Delshad
Los Angeles, 2021.
ISBN 9781736881903
The timeframe of Zoroaster’s teachings has long been debated and discussed. Estimates of when he lived range from 6000 BCE to 500 BCE. In this book, the author attempts to set the period in which Zoroaster lived based on research and discusses evidence based on historical findings and documents. This book is recommended for anyone interested in the first philosopher of history and his insights, which influenced early Greek and Roman Philosophers.
This book was originally written in Persian and has been translated into English. Both copies are available on Amazon.
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