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- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold – the warring housewives on the first floor, the lovesick teenagers on the second, and...
- 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...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Shantaram introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In The Mountain Shadow, the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in...
- 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...
- Location(s): Delhi, Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
Set amidst the elite circles of Mumbai and Delhi, Paro: Dreams of Passion follows the enigmatic protagonist as she navigates a labyrinth of desire, ambition and betrayal. Through the sharp and observant eyes of Priya, a keen diarist and...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): Modern
Ayyan Mani is a man born to greater things, which wouldn’t surprise his neighbours in the vast tenement building in which he lives, where to be sober and employed practically makes a man a legend. He works as an...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay), Seattle
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Modern
Kareena Sinha, an Indian-American domestic-violence counselor, disappears from her Seattle home. When the police dismiss suspicions that she herself was a victim of spousal abuse, her best friend, Mitra Basu, a young landscape designer, resolves to find her. Mitra’s...
- 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): Manhattan, Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Thriller, Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Good-natured but naïve, Mumbai party boy Ali Azeem is drifting through life. Then he meets the Khan sisters: pretty, marriage-material Maryam and sexy, unpredictable, off-the-rails Farhan. They are the daughters of Abbas Khan, the formidable immigrant patriarch of a...










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