Toss of a Lemon
by Padma ViswanathanIn a fiction debut to rival The God of Small Things, Padma Viswanathan gives us a richly detailed and intimate vision of an India we've never seen.
Inspired by her family history, Padma Viswanathan brings us deep inside the private lives.
- First published
- 2009
- Publishers
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
- Subjects
- Family·Religious life
About Padma Viswanathan
Padma Viswanathan’s debut novel, The Toss of a Lemon, was published in eight countries, a bestseller in three, and a finalist for the Commonwealth (Regional) First Book Prize, the Amazon.ca First Novel Prize and the Pen Center USA Fiction Prize. Her second novel, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, was published in Canada in spring of 2014, and shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. It is forthcoming in the USA, India and Australia.Viswanathan’s short fiction appears in various journals; her story “Transitory Cities” won the 2006 Boston Review Short Story Contest. Her plays include House of Sacred Cows and Disco Does Not Suck. She publishes cultural journalism and reviews in such venues as Elle Canada, The National Post and The Rumpus Online. Her handwritten Letter-in-the-Mail for The Rumpus can be found in Best American Non-Required Reading 2012. She has also published several short translations of Brazilian fiction.Canadian by birth and temperament, she now lives on a hilltop in Arkansas with her husband (the poet and translator Geoffrey Brock), children, parents and an ever-shifting array of animals....
Books
Supramolecular Chemistry in Corrosion and Biofouling Protection
Viswanathan S. Saji
Spray-Freeze-Drying of Foods and Bioproducts
S. Padma Ishwarya
Spray-Freeze-drying of Foods and Bioproducts
S. Padma Ishwarya
Conversion Coatings for Magnesium and Its Alloys
Viswanathan S. Saji
Spray-Freeze-Drying of Foods and Bioproducts
Ishwarya, S., Padma
Natural Dyes for Sustainable Textiles
Padma Shree Vankar
Irrationally Rational
Viswanathan Raghunathan
Infamous Women of History Anthology
Neeraja Viswanathan
Infamous Women of History Anthology
Neeraja Viswanathan
Infamous Women of History Anthology
Neeraja Viswanathan
Padma's All-American
Padma Lakshmi
Tangy Tart Hot and Sweet
Padma Lakshmi
Mega Monsters
Jay Viswanathan
Corrosion Inhibitors in the Oil and Gas Industry
Viswanathan S. Saji
Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India
Padma Bhate-Deosthali
Anxiety of Dark Energy
Padma Jared Thornlyre
Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia
Padma M. Sarangapani
This handbook is an important reference work in understanding education systems in the south asia region, their development trajectory, challenges and potential.
Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India
Padma Bhate-Deosthali
Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India
Padma Bhate-Deosthali
World Clinics Diabetology : Complications of Diabetes
Viswanathan Mohan
Feminist Counselling and Domestic Violence in India
Padma Bhate-Deosthali
Mainstream counselling in domestic violence often fails to address critical issues, such as gender socialisation processes and the abuse of power that allows violence against women, and focuses primarily on the intra-psychic nature of individual women.
Bridge Home
Padma Venkatraman
Life is tough on the teeming streets of chennai, india, as runaway sisters viji and ruku quickly discover.
Targeted Intracellular Drug Delivery by Receptor Mediated Endocytosis
Padma V. Devarajan
The Bridge Home
Padma Venkatraman
When viji and her sister, rukku, whose developmental disability makes her overly trusting and vulnerable to the perils of the world, run away to live on their own, the situation could not be more grim.
Enjoy Success, Relish Failures
Padma A. D. Singh
This is the extraordinary story of an ordinary salesman who founded a large and successful company.
Perestroika in Perspective
Padma Desai
Mikhail gorbachev's perestroika is a historic effort at restructuring the troubled soviet economy.
Preeclampsia
Padma Murthi
This volume presents the latest developments and techniques used to study the physiopathology, diagnosis, and treatment of pre-eclampsia.
Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920
Padma Anagol
Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess
Sree Padma
Popular religion in village india is overwhelmingly dominated by goddess worship.
Energy Sources
Balasubramanian Viswanathan
Energy sources: fundamentals of chemical conversion processes and applications provides the latest information on energy and the environment, the two main concerns of any progressive society that hopes to be sustainable in the future.
Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India
B. Viswanathan
Restructuring of the tax system has constituted a major component of fiscal reforms in india since 1991.
Clinical Case Series in Diabetes
Viswanathan Mohan
The encyclopedia of spices and herbs
Padma Lakshmi
Love, Loss, and What We Ate
Padma Lakshmi
Materials and Processes for Solar Fuel Production
Balasubramanian Viswanathan
This book features different approaches to non-biochemical pathways for solar fuel production.
Sri Lanka
Padma Rao Sundarji
The thirty-year-long civil war in sri lanka which ended in 2009 shook the island-nation.
A Mindful Kitchen
Padma Yvonne Jaques
The seeds we plant when we take care of others always ripen as an experience of us being cared forpadma yvonne jaques...
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
Padma Viswanathan
Targeted Drug Delivery
Padma V. Devarajan
The ever after of Ashwin Rao
Padma Viswanathan
Ever after of Ashwin Rao
Padma Viswanathan
Weather variability, agriculture and rural migration
Brinda Viswanathan
Perestroika in Perspective
Padma Desai
Mikhail gorbachev's perestroika is a historic effort at restructuring the troubled soviet economy.
Farīdah, ek machlī
T. V. Padma
Mīnā mainā =
T. V. Padma
Parkāsh, ek mor =
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Targeted Drug Delivery
Padma V. Devarajan
A Time to Dance
Padma Venkatraman
Padma venkatraman’s inspiring story of a young girl’s struggle to regain her passion and find a new peace is told lyrically through verse that captures the beauty and mystery of india and the ancient bharatanatyam dance form.
Financial Crisis, Contagion, and Containment
Padma Desai
This book provides a sweeping, up-to-date, and boldly critical account of the financial crises that rocked east asia and other parts of the world beginning with the collapse of the thai baht in 1997.
Vicissitudes of the Goddess
Sree Padma
This book provides a detailed history of hindu goddess traditions with a special focus on the local goddesses of andhra pradesh, past and present.
Recent Trends in Microbial Biotechnology
Singh Padma
Fictionalising myth and history
Padma Malini Sundararaghavan
Breaking Out
Padma Desai
Padma desai grew up in the 1930s in the provincial world of surat, india, where she had a sheltered and strict upbringing in a traditional gujarati anavil brahmin family.
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