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Man-woman relationship in Indian fiction : with a focus on Shashi Deshpande, Rajendra Awasthy, and Syed Abdul Malik

Marriage; an examination of the man-woman relationship

The big bang symphony : a novel of Antarctica

"Antarctica is a vortex that draws you back, season after season ... Thirty-year-old Rosie Moore ... flies in for her third season on the Ice. She plans to avoid all entanglements, romantic and otherwise, and do her work as a galley cook. But when her flight crash-lands, so do all her plans. Mikala Wilbo, a brilliant young composer whose heart, and music, have been frozen since the death of her partner, is also on that flight. She has come to the Ice as an artist-in-residence, to write music, but also to secretly check out the astrophysicist father she has never met. Arriving a few weeks later, Alice Neilson, a graduate student in geology who thinks in charts and equations, is thrilled to leave her dependent mother and begin her career at last. But from the start she is aware that her post-doc advisor, with whom she will work in Antarctica, expects much more from their relationship. As the three women become increasingly involved in each other's lives, they find themselves deeply transformed by their time on the Ice ..."--Jacket.

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