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- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), Rhode Island
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1960s to modern
From Subhash’s earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): First half 20th Century
1916, Calcutta. A man pauses for breath outside the ruins of Jheeter’s Gate station knowing he has only hours to live. Pursued by assassins, he must ensure the safety of two newborn twins, before disappearing into the night to...
- Location(s): Kabul, Kolkata (Calcutta), London
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 19th Century
The novel begins in Kabul with the arrival of Burnes, an ambitious young Scot, eager to open up the country to the English. News of his arrival soon reaches the Amir, for whom “the arrival of the new European...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), London
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s to 1990s
A wide-eyed boy growing up in suburban Calcutta in the 1960s experiences the world through the eyes of others – an intoxicating older cousin, a grandmother who weaves stories from the past and a family in London whose lives...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1919
The winner of the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crime writing competition Captain Sam Wyndham, former Scotland Yard detective, is a new arrival to Calcutta. Desperately seeking a fresh start after his experiences during the Great War, Wyndham has been recruited to...
- Location(s): West Bengal, Boston
- Era(s): Modern
Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives...
- Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Although she was orphaned at birth, Korobi Roy has enjoyed a privileged childhood with her adoring grandparents, spending her first seventeen years in a beautiful, crumbling old mansion in Kolkata, India. But she is troubled by the silence that...