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In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of...

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A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others an intoxicating...

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At eighteen, Somlata married into the Mitras: a once noble Bengali household whose descendants have taken to pawning off the...

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