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- 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): 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): Mystery
- Era(s): 21st century
Moira Madhwa is the typical young, beautiful and successful urban woman until the day she goes missing. Her friends start looking for her, but quickly realize nothing is as it seems. Moira had kept devastating secrets—secrets that could wreck...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): 1950
In the fourth rip-roaring thriller in the award-winning Malabar House series, Persis and Archie travel to the old colonial capital of Calcutta, where they collide head-on with the prejudices and bloody politics of an era engulfed in flame. Can...
- 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): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
A novel in two acts – told eighteen years apart – gives voice to both mother (Ayesha) and daughter (Mira) after an unplanned teen pregnancy led Ayesha to place Mira up for adoption. Seventeen-year-old Mira Fuller-Jensen was adopted by...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): 1949/50
Bombay, New Year’s Eve, 1949 As India celebrates the arrival of a momentous new decade, Inspector Persis Wadia stands vigil in the basement of Malabar House, home to the city’s most unwanted unit of police officers. Six months after...
Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): N/A
All of Mumbai’s memories and castaway possessions come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. And among these vast, teetering piles of discarded things – medical waste, rotten food, old clothes, broken glass and twisted metal – a small,...