Sep 07 2011
Flipkart is now India's biggest online bookseller, with over 10 million titles distributed from warehouses in five cities. It has branched from books into mobile phones, appliances, gaming consoles, music and movies, and now sells 10 products a minute. All this from a lowly start just four years ago when the two founders would collect books from local warehouses in Bangalore, package them in their apartment and then deliver them by hand to their customers because their volumes were often so low couriers would refuse to pick up!
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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