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Foreigner
Published in Paperback by Periplus Line LLC (1972)
Author: Arun Joshi
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Absolute Beauty
This book can make you smile, cry and wonder. It's one of the greatest pieces of Fiction from India.
A Must buy for anyone who enjoys moving stories


Last Labyrinth
Published in Paperback by Periplus Line LLC (1981)
Author: Arun Joshi
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Arun Joshi's The Last Labyrinth
Respected Indian novelist Arun Joshi's novel The Last Labyrinth won India's prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award over twenty years ago, and is still considered one of the most important books in the area of Indian English fiction. Surprising? Not really, for even though it was written such a long time ago, the book still exerts a great hold on the consciousness of anyone who reads it. Even though I last read it over a year ago, its story still haunts me. In fact, the best adjective to describe Joshi's masterpiece is the word "haunting." Set in a world of mystery,and the darkness of human emotions, it is often hard to figure out, yet the themes it addresses can appeal to anyone, even those who are unfamiliar with Indian fiction. The story is relatively simple: rich businessman Som goes to take over the company of a strange eccentric man and is consequently drawn into his world of shadowy awareness, and into a passionate, obsessive affair with his mistress (?) Anuradha. Is the story leading to his downfall? Most readers may find its eventual outcome somewhat surprising.

Joshi takes his cues for his labyrinthine world from such respected writers as Borges and Garcia Marquez, but The Last Labyrinth is nothing that one might expect. In its entirety it is a story not only of obsession, but of great love, not only of self-destruction, but of salvation. It is a story of memories and huge confusing havelis, and finally of the wonderment of life. Yes, it is hard to describe, and it needs to be read more than once, especially in consideration with the quite different works of Indian English literature with which it is often compared. I find it incredibly sad that this great book is currently out-of-print, but maybe that can be remedied someday so that more people can have access to it.


The apprentice
Published in Unknown Binding by Asia Pub. House ()
Author: Arun Joshi
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Arun Joshi : the existentialist element in his novels
Published in Unknown Binding by B.R. Pub. Corp. ()
Author: Mukteshwar Pandey
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Arun Joshi's Fiction; The Labyrinth of Life
Published in Hardcover by Prestige (01 November, 1997)
Author: Tapan Kumar Ghosh
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City and the River
Published in Hardcover by South Asia Books (01 June, 1990)
Author: Arun Joshi
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Critical Study of Novels of Arun Joshi, Raja Rao and Sudhin N. Ghose
Published in Hardcover by South Asia Books (04 February, 1999)
Author: T.J. Abraham
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The Fictional world of Arun Joshi
Published in Unknown Binding by Classical Pub. Co. ()
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Five Indian Novelists; B. Rajan, Raja Rao, R.K. Narayan, Arun Joshi, Anita Desai
Published in Hardcover by South Asia Books (01 August, 1997)
Author: V.V.N. Rajendra Prasad
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Novels of Arun Joshi
Published in Hardcover by South Asia Books (01 August, 1997)
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