The Silent Raga Michael Poole BISAC Subject(s):: ART016000-ART / Individual

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archival images and a map of the region -- explores themes of migration

detailing the invention of classics like “ginger beef” and “Newfoundland chow mein

the Empress

become international spies

The Silent Raga Michael Poole BISAC Subject(s):: ART016000-ART / IndividualDescription In the literary tradition of Rohinton Mistry and Arundhati Roy, this ambitious debut novel is a moving tale of family, tradition, loss and reconciliation. Meet Janaki and Mallika, two sisters from a middle class Brahmin family in Madras, India. Janaki is a musical prodigy, sublimely gifted on the veena, but will soon be eighteen and dreads her aunt's schemes for an arranged marriage. Eschewing tradition, she runs off with a Muslim