Holy Cow
By: David Duchovny
Pages: 206
Publisher: Headline/Hachette India
Price: Rs 399
Elsie is a cow on-the-run in search of a world without industrial meat farms. Accompanying her on the journey are Shalom, a grumpy pig; and Tom, a suave turkey who can’t fly. Toting stolen passports and slapdash human disguises, the trio head for the airport.
Sri Lanka: The New Country
By: Padma Rao Sundarji
Pages: 322
Publisher: HarperCollins
Price: Rs 499
As Sundarji traverses the length and breadth of the formerly disputed north and east of the island, stereotypes about the nation come apart. Replete with stories about ordinary Sri Lankans, Tamil and Sinhalese, this is a tribute to the resilient spirit of a wonderful people locked in a long conflict.
Finding the Demon’s Fiddle: On the Trail of Ravanhattha
By: Patrick Jered
Pages: 606
Publisher: Tranquebar/Westland
Price: Rs 699
A European arrives in India and comes upon an ancient instrument— Ravanhattha. This intimate and often humorous account of Patrick Jered’s visit to India and Sri Lanka, reads like an engaging page-turner of a novel.
Circle of Fate
By: Prita Warrier
Pages: 291
Publisher: Amaryllis
Price: Rs 295
Devaki, an ageing widow, lives in a village in Kerala. She hopes that one day her only son, Naresh, now estranged, will return to her. One day she gets a call from her grand daughter, Sheela, who lives in the US, giving her news that Naresh and his wife Meena have been killed in an auto accident.