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The Color of Our Sky

The Color of Our Sky
  • Author(s): Amita Trasi
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever...

Mumbai Matinee

Mumbai Matinee
  • Author(s): Ajay Kaul
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1991

A unique and unforgettable cast of characters shines through eight interconnected stories, influenced by true incidents from the 1990s to 2000s Mumbai. As the Indian economy opens up in 1991, Bombay (now Mumbai) – India’s financial hub, witnesses a...

Bombay Wali Other Stories

Bombay Wali Other Stories
  • Author(s): Veela Gokhale
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Twelve stories that provide startling glimpses of contemporary life in Bombay, and elsewhere. An innocuous jazz concert that awakens painful memories for a middle-aged caregiver, a wealthy business woman compelled by the desire to hurt her best friend, a...

Haunting Bombay

Haunting Bombay
  • Author(s): Shilpa Agarwal
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

A motherless girl living with her grandmother and her uncle’s family in their bungalow in 1960s Bombay inadvertently unleashes a ghost, forcing the family to confront the shocking truth behind a drowning death that occurred there years earlier.

The Song of Kahunsha

The Song of Kahunsha
  • Author(s): Anosh Irani
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1993

From one of Canada’s brightest literary stars – a startling and beautiful novel about abandonment, poverty, and violence, as well as loyalty, love, and hope, as seen through the eyes of a young homeless boy. It is 1993 and...

Meet Me in Bombay

Meet Me in Bombay
  • Author(s): Jenny Ashcroft
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): WW1

Bombay, 1913 It’s New Year’s Eve, and Madeline Bright, fresh to the exotic opulence of colonial India, is yearning for all she’s left behind in England. But then, at the stroke of midnight, Maddy meets Luke Devereaux, and as...

Low

Low
  • Author(s): Jeet Thayil
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife’s ashes. Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis...

Bombay Bhel

Bombay Bhel
  • Author(s): Ken Doyle
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1990s

A schoolboy’s loyalty to a street vendor is tested when the vendor disappears without notice. A grandmother prepares to begin a new chapter in her life. Bombay’s tangled web of bureaucracy threatens the livelihood of an ex-serviceman. Like the...

A Daughter’s Courage

A Daughter’s Courage
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): South India, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s, Now

1929. When a passionate love affair threatens to leave Lucy in disgrace, she chooses a respectable marriage over a life of shame. With her husband, coffee-plantation-owner James, she travels to her new home in India, leaving her troubled past...

The Hundred-Foot Journey

The Hundred-Foot Journey
  • Author(s): Richard C Morais
  • Location(s): Paris, French Alps, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

“Slumdog Millionaire meets Ratatouille” (The New York Times Book Review) in this “delicious fairytale-like read” (NPR) about family, nationality, and the mysteries of good taste. Born above his grandfather’s modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan Haji first experienced life through...

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