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East of the Sun

East of the Sun
  • Author(s): Julia Gregson
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Late 1920s

Autumn 1928. Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows. Victoria, her...

The Death of Mr Love

The Death of Mr Love
  • Author(s): Indra Sinha
  • Location(s): India, Lewes, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): 1950s and 1990s

The central tenet is based on a murder case in 1950s Bombay, with tremendous descriptions of the Bombay underworld, its backstreets and community politics, together with scenes of rural India. The story of Bhalu as he remembers his idyllic...

A Fine Balance

A Fine Balance
  • Author(s): Rohinton Mistry
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970s

Compassionate realism and narrative are vividly captured in this masterpiece. It is 1975 and India is in a state of flux, the location is an unnamed city by the sea – actually Mumbai. A state of emergency has just...

Behind The Beautiful Forevers

Behind The Beautiful Forevers
  • Author(s): Katherine Boo
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part...

Last Man in Tower

Last Man in Tower
  • Author(s): Aravind Adiga
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

21st Century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property kingpin Dharmen Shah has grand plans for its future. His offer to buy and tear down a weathered tower block, making way for luxury...

Murder in Bollywood

Murder in Bollywood
  • Author(s): Shadaab Amjad Khan
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Someone at this table has killed before, and someone at this table will kill again. Nakhil Kapoor, Bollywood’s biggest film director, made this shocking proclamation to his friends one night. Sameer Ali Khan, Bollywood’s badshah, seethed with rage. Nyra...

Murder in Mumbai

Murder in Mumbai
  • Author(s): K D Calamur
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Mumbai, India: a city of beauty and squalor, old and new, wealth and poverty, honest work and deep corruption… and inevitable target of scandal and condemnation if Inspector Vijay Gaikwad doesn’t solve the murder of American businesswoman Liz Barton,...

Narcopolis

Narcopolis
  • Author(s): Jeet Thayil
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

If you were to write a story set in Bombay, as the poet Jeet Thayil prefers to call the city now known as Mumbai in his outstanding debut novel, you don’t have to work too hard. Much of it...

Saraswati Park

Saraswati Park
  • Author(s): Anjali Jospeh
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Famous for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such space works Mohan, a contemplative man who has spent his life observing people from his seat as a letter-writer outside the main...

The City of Devi

The City of Devi
  • Author(s): Manil Suri
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
  • Era(s): Modern

Armed only with a pomegranate, Sarita ventures into the empty streets of Mumbai, on the eve of its threatened nuclear annihilation. She is looking for her physicist husband Karun, who has been missing for over a fortnight. She is...

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