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Literature, Music, Art.Fauzia Rafiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17068970543646239021noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740544760247037997.post-55548269273764535602020-04-02T20:57:00.003-07:002020-04-02T21:34:28.355-07:00'Keerru' a novella by Fauzia Rafique <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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'In her latest novella, Fauzia Rafique weaves an endearing story of love, resistance, and community in the South Asian diaspora'<br />
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Fauzia Rafiquehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17068970543646239021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740544760247037997.post-27131593702495177742016-06-11T19:38:00.001-07:002016-06-12T14:26:03.535-07:00Coming Soon: 'These Tales Are True' by Mariam Zohra D. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">SoundCloud - </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://soundcloud.com/myrhyum/tracks&source=gmail&ust=1465778754709000&usg=AFQjCNHduRQY7HFRMsLLCybifEHo7E38-g" href="https://soundcloud.com/myrhyum/tracks" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12.8px;" target="_blank">taRka</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Poetry blog - <a href="http://nothingispersonal.wordpress.com/">nothingispersonal</a></span></div>
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<b>Blisters Of Chimurenga</b> features a cast of unforgettable characters thrust into the power game of death and deprivation in present day Zimbabwe. In this debut novel, Marshall Shumba, a Zimbabwean author/performer/educator, has brought us a fast-paced popular-fiction-style story to illustrate and document a portion of the peoples' history of enduring the violence of colonization in Zimbabwe.<br />
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'Vivid in portraying the impact of the current Zimbabwean crisis on ordinary citizens, and lucid in projecting the realities and struggles of peoples' daily lives, Marshall Shumba sees his characters, of all colors, as part of the land they inhabit. The people suffer, the land suffers with them.'</div>
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Just in time for holiday season, Ibrahim Honjo's collection of poems titled 'POEMS I DIDN’T WANT TO WRITE, SOME OTHER DREAMS' is now available as an eBook at Amazon and Gumroad.</div>
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This eBook is created in free-flow format to be used with any reader. It has been tested on Amazon Kindle, iBook from Apple, and Adobe Digital Editions reader prior to completion.<br />
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We are happy to announce the title of our next eBook, 'Islands Unto Ourselves', a novel by Gomathy Puri that was recently launched in its Paperback Edition (Larkuma 2012).<br />
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'Islands Unto Ourselves' is a novel about two migrant families, their hopes and wishes, challenges and triumphs. It has been critically acclaimed by critics as a simply told, gripping story. Alka Kumar, an associate Professor at Delhi University says this about the novel:<br />
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'<span style="color: #e06666;">Intelligence, embodiment, engagement: these are the aspects of woman that surge to the fore and fall back again, as poem by poem, the author moves us through the vastness of the world</span>.'<br />
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