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Sister of My Heart

Sister of My Heart
  • Author(s): Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta), San Francisco
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta family of distinction. Her cousin Sudha is the daughter of the black sheep of that same family. Sudha is startlingly beautiful; Anju is not. Despite those differences, since the day on...

Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant

Six Car Lengths Behind an Elephant
  • Author(s): Lillian McCloy
  • Location(s): India, Japan, Spain, Venezuela
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): 20th century

“If you’re married to a spy, the always fraught arena of a relationship turns into a positive minefield. What does that all-night absence mean? What can you begin to say to the kids? In Six Car Lengths Behind an...

Six Days in Bombay

Six Days in Bombay
  • Author(s): Alka Joshi
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When renowned painter Mira Novak arrives at Wadia hospital in Bombay after a miscarriage, she’s expected to make a quick recovery, and her nurse, Sona, is excited to learn more about the vivacious artist who shares her half-Indian identity. Sona, yearning for a...

Sleeping in the Sun

Sleeping in the Sun
  • Author(s): Joanne Howard
  • Location(s): Midnapore
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Raj era

When two visitors arrive to the boarding house in India where an American boy is coming of age during the British Raj, truths unravel, disrupting his life and challenging the family’s sense of home. A unique historical angle ideal...

Slowly Down the Ganges

Slowly Down the Ganges
  • Author(s): Eric Newby
  • Location(s): India
  • Era(s): 1960s

‘Slowly Down the Ganges’ is seen as a vintage Newby masterpiece, alongside ‘A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush’ and ‘Love and War in the Apennines’. Told with Newby’s self-deprecating humour and wry attention to detail, this is a...

Small Deaths

Small Deaths
  • Author(s): Rijula Das
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A staggering debut novel of murder, loyalty, love, and survival at all costs, set in the teeming underbelly of Calcutta’s most infamous neighborhood. In Calcutta’s notorious red-light district, Lalee aspires to a better life. Her unfailingly loyal client Tilu...

Song of the Cuckoo Bird

Song of the Cuckoo Bird
  • Author(s): Amulya Malladi
  • Location(s): South India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940 to early 2000s

A sweeping epic set in southern India, where a group of outcasts create a family while holding tight to their dreams. Barely a month after she is promised in marriage, eleven-year-old orphan Kokila comes to Tella Meda, an ashram...

Staying On

Staying On
  • Author(s): Paul Scott
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Mid 20th Century

Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return ‘home’ when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric...

Stories for South Asian Super Girls

Stories for South Asian Super Girls
  • Author(s): Raj Kaur Khaira
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Through the inspirational stories of 50 famous and under-celebrated women from Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka, South Asian girls will have a chance to dream about lives for themselves that radically differ from the limited narratives...

Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame

Strong as Fire, Fierce as Flame
  • Author(s): Supriya Kelkar
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 19th century

In 1857 India, 12-year-old Meera escapes a life she has no say in–and certain death on her husband’s funeral pyre–only to end up a servant to a British general in the East India Company. When a rebellion against British...

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