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  • Where They Shattered His Green Dreams
    Alexander Raju
    Where They Shattered His Green Dreams is a novel based on media reports following NATO’s war against Libya. The account begins when Colonel Gaddafi’s tragic assassination is announced, and ends with the narrator of the story, a professor of journalism at Al Fateh University in Tripoli, being murdered.The first chapter describes an evening in Tripoli on February 11, 2011, the Ev...
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  • And Still Plays the Abyssinian Damsel on her Dulcimer
    Alexander Raju
    And Still Plays the Abyssinian Damsel on Her Dulcimer is a novel based on Ethiopian history and legends. The story has thirteen chapters representing the thirteen months in the Ethiopian calendar.The narrator, a professor at an Ethiopian University, flies from Mumbai to Addis Ababa, and then to his destination. He is haunted by the Abyssinian damsel whom the English poet Samuel...
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  • When Babel Tower Is Falling Down
    Alexander Raju
    When Babel Tower Is Falling Down is a domestic novel, from the author of the allegorical novels The Haunted Man (1997) and Upon This Bank and Shoal (2008), which makes us rethink about the beauty of natural human relationships, presently contaminated by the craze for individual freedom. We live in a world in which the voice of modern education has taught us to ignore the sancti...
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  • Poles Apart on the Same Bed
    Alexander Raju
    Here’s a fine selection of Alexander Raju’s stories written over thirty years-ranging between the stories of a tyro giving expression to his idealistic perspective of the world and the society he lives in and intensely feels about, and those of a cynical angry man in quarrel with the world and its ways. They are poles apart also in the sense that the stories do not belong to an...
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  • The Haunted Man
    Alexander Raju
    Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely; this is true under dictatorship, totalitarianism and fundamentalism, and democracy as well. Slavery, bondage, suppression and discrimination follow when absolute power corrupts. Perhaps, an Abraham Lincoln could legally put an end to the physical slavery, but its manifestation in various other forms related to race, includi...
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    22,69 €

  • Upon This Bank and Shoal
    Alexander Raju
    Upon This Bank and Shoal, from the author of the much-discussed novel The Haunted Man (1997), deals with the perennial theme of the man-woman relationship in a unique manner. Even in the twenty first century one finds the dreamy man in his desperate quest for lost Paradise and the practical woman in her fight against the inevitable smites of fate. From birth to death, every ind...
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    22,52 €