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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...