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Bo-Tree House audio books represent evocative and fresh Indian immigrant novels, Viku and the Elephant kids’ adventure story and a creative nonfiction about east Idaho and India.
Bo-Tree House is happy to participate with Audible.com and Apple Books Audio in Audio Book production with narration by virtual voice. Amazon.com, Audible.com and from Apple Books have our audio books:
Bittersweet Stories of an Indian Youth
Click and listen to the sample here https://tinyurl.com/27u94yuh
A Somerset award-winning contemporary novel, Night Jasmine Tree, describes the hidden backstory of an Indian man’s immigration to the U.S. The high caste protagonist fell in love with a lower caste girl in college, but she was rejected by his very conservative family. They married, but deep emotional wounds continued to torment him even after they were well settled in the U.S. However, the past cannot be willed away. Later, the arresting stories of his childhood and youth he innocently tells his American grandchildren, reveal the silent torment and struggles that originated in India. These poignant and heartwarming stories, touching and sublime by themselves, provide the backbone of this novel—the author captures those breathless, quiet moments that make life worth living.
One cannot put down this story of rebellion against conservative caste barriers. Romance, inter-caste marriage, family conflict, sacrifice, loss, and inner suffering in the end lead to the ultimate rise of the innate human heart to overcome all obstacles of familial rejection to love and peace. The reader will contemplate about his or her own family because of the family love so purely described in this novel. A cathartic novel of triumph of the human spirit—moving, realistic, and uplifting.
Sacred River: A Himalayan Journey Audio Book
A Gold Heist Mystery
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The novel describes man’s search for meaning in life disguised as a mystery novel. This is a book to read and listen to if you are ready for a journey to India’s ancient wisdom.
Three stories flow independently in this novel, initially disconnected, they converge at Gangotri temple, ten thousand feet high in the Himalayas. An illiterate farmer goes on a long-desired pilgrimage; a socio-political organization emerges in India to uplift the poor; and an Indian American journeys home in search of the meaning of his life. As they proceed, the protagonists meet many detours, but their journeys through crowded cities, mountain passes, and intriguing mysteries become more than mere physical travel.
On the surface, the actions center on the treasure heist, but underneath, this is a story of a quest for peace in life nurtured by Indian mythological and folk tales, unconditional spiritual devotion, and intercultural romance. They weave a colorful tapestry of overlapping stories. As little tributaries flow together to make a mighty river, each thread in the tapestry is woven to make a beautiful picture with an uplifting conclusion. A Himalayan journey that will touch your soul.
In the words of Barbara Hall, Nibley Green, Gloucestershire, U.K. It is “a brilliant novel, which gives a wonderfully vivid flavour of India with all its idiosyncrasies and contradictions.”
Viku and the Elephant Audio Book
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This Audio Book of Viku and the Elephant, an adventure story from the jungle of India, achieves the intimacy of reading a book to a child.
In this story a boy, Viku, becomes a friend of a young elephant named Haatee when he saves it from a snake. Their many adventures unfold quickly. In one story, ivory poachers take Viku hostage and ask him to show them where elephant tusks are hidden in the jungle. Although frightened, Viku and Haatee manage to outsmart the ivory poachers with an ingenious plan. Can you imagine how they did that?
Now you can hear the story by just clicking on the Audio Book. And surely a child will quickly lose in the forests and cultures of India, the book coming so vivid to him or her.
In the words of Librarian Susan Seefeldt, “Whereas Horton, Dumbo, and Babar (lovable as they may be) are elephants one might want to befriend, one does not encounter them in their natural habitats. This heightens the vicarious experience of the reader.”
From the Ganges to the Snake River
An East Indian in the Northwest
Apple Audio Book narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.
Listen to the sample here https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/from-the-ganges-to-the-snake-river/id1819589429
From the Ganges to the Snake River, an East Indian in the American West is a collection of creative non-fiction stories that reflect on the immigrant experience and a culture left behind. Debu Majumdar gives a tender account of the difficulties, discoveries, and delights of being a stranger in a strange land. These stories interweave Asian Indian culture with North American reality, shuttling between past and present, myth, and careful observation of everyday life.
The wide range of topics covered include hunting, fishing, river float trips, horses as pets, social entertainment, and the special people of the area such as Mormon missionaries and Native Americans. The articles sincerely describes everyday life with meticulously observed details and human warmth. The book throws two vastly different ways of life into fascinating juxtapositions in a totally engaging way.
The Rendezvous magazine of theIdaho State University English Department originally published these stories except Indians across the oceans. Then Caxton Press published the full book. Later, Idaho State University selected four chapters from the print version of this book from all publications of Rendezvous magazines from 1966 – 2005 for their Memorial volume titled Rendezvous: Forty years of History, Politics and Literature of the West, 2009.
How to get it from Apple Books:
On your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, locate and open the Apple Books app. Then find the Audiobook Store and search for From the Ganges to the Snake River. Click on the cover of the audiobook to view more details. You can listen to a sample of the audiobook. If you want to buy it, click the price next to the title. The audiobook will be added to your library and can be downloaded for listening.
