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The Far Field

The Far Field
  • Author(s): Madhuri Vijay
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

An elegant, epic debut novel that follows one young woman’s search for a lost figure from her childhood, a journey that takes her from Southern India to Kashmir and to the brink of a devastating political and personal reckoning....

The Glass Palace

The Glass Palace
  • Author(s): Amitav Ghosh
  • Location(s): Burma (Myanmar), India, Malaysia (Malaya)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Second half 19th century onwards

Beginning in 1885, with the British invasion of Mandalay and the capture of the Burmese king and queen, and encompassing over 100 years to modern-day India and Burma (Myanmar), Amitav Ghosh has created in The Glass Palace a monument...

The God of Small Things

The God of Small Things
  • Author(s): Arundhati Roy
  • Location(s): Kottayam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion...

The Grammarian

The Grammarian
  • Author(s): Annapurna Pothuri
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Anjali is a young woman disfigured from polio at an early age and this is her storyl

The Hope Factory

The Hope Factory
  • Author(s): Lavanya Sankaran
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Fiction

Two families. One city. Too many secrets Anand is a Bangalore success story: successful, well-married, rich. At least, that’s how he appears. But if his little factory is to grow, he needs land and money and, in the New...

The Hundred-Foot Journey

The Hundred-Foot Journey
  • Author(s): Richard C Morais
  • Location(s): France, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Food and Drink
  • Era(s): Modern

The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a...

The Hungry Tide

The Hungry Tide
  • Author(s): Amitav Ghosh
  • Location(s): The Sundarbans - Bay of Bengal
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh,.. focuses on The Sunderbans – a vast archipelago of islands lying below Calcutta on the gulf between India and Bangladesh. Two travellers travel into the area – Piya, an American scientist of Indian...

The Illicit Happiness of Other People

The Illicit Happiness of Other People
  • Author(s): Manu Jospeh
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

Seventeen-year-old Unni has done something terrible. The only clue to his actions lies in a comic strip he has drawn, which has fallen into the hands of his father Ousep – a nocturnal anarchist with a wife who is...

The Last Devadasi

The Last Devadasi
  • Author(s): Barbara L Baer
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1970s

Madras (Chennai) 1970s. Kamala Kumari, beautiful and proud, is a Gemini Studio starlet who cannot reveal her caste origins because of the stigma attached to the Devadasis, women who have been dedicated to temple gods and often were forced...

The Last Hangman

The Last Hangman
  • Author(s): Shashi Warrier
  • Location(s): Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Travancore (until 1947)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In the heat and the dust of the Indian south, the last hangman of the former princely state of Travancore commits his life to paper. In seven notebooks he remembers the people he has killed, calmly recalling the final...

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