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The Monkey Bridge

The Monkey Bridge
  • Author(s): Fahimeh Amiri, Rafe Martin
  • Location(s): Varanasi
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): A long time ago

In the heart of Benares, on the banks of the river Ganges, stands a tree with fruit so perfect it can only be called treasure. How the tree got there is a tale of two rulers—one selfish and proud,...

The Moor’s Last Sigh

The Moor’s Last Sigh
  • Author(s): Salman Rushdie
  • Location(s): Kochi (Cochin), Mumbai (Bombay), Spain
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1900 onwards

Moraes ‘Moor’ Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route...

The Museum of Failures

The Museum of Failures
  • Author(s): Thrity Umrigar
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

A riveting story about uncovering family secrets and the power of forgiveness, set in India and the United States, from the bestselling author of Reese’s Book Club pick Honor Remy Wadia left India for the United States long ago,...

The Namesake

The Namesake
  • Author(s): Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Location(s): India, Cambridge (Massachusetts)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

‘The Namesake’ is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America. ‘When her grandmother learned of Ashima’s pregnancy, she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family’s first sahib. And so Ashima and Ashoke have...

The Nidhi Kapoor Story

The Nidhi Kapoor Story
  • Author(s): Saurabh Garg
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
  • Era(s): Modern

Nidhi Kapoor is a very successful, second-generation film star. She is the daughter of the great Nishant Kapoor, who came out of nowhere to become the first real superstar in the 80s. The day before she is to start...

The Night Diary

The Night Diary
  • Author(s): Veera Hiranandani
  • Location(s): India, Pakistan
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1947, India's Partition

In the vein of Inside Out and Back Again and The War That Saved My Life comes a poignant, personal, and hopeful tale of India’s partition, and of one girl’s journey to find a new home in a divided...

The Orphans

The Orphans
  • Author(s): Annemarie Neary
  • Location(s): Goa, London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Eight-year-old Jess and her little brother were playing at the water’s edge when their parents vanished. For hours the children held hands and waited for them to return. But nobody ever came back. Years later, Jess has become a...

The Other Side of the World

The Other Side of the World
  • Author(s): Stephanie Bishop
  • Location(s): Australia, Cambridge, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Cambridge 1963. Charlotte struggles to reconnect with the woman she was before children, and to find the time and energy to paint. Her husband, Henry, cannot face the thought of another English winter. A brochure slipped through the letterbox...

The Pagoda Tree

The Pagoda Tree
  • Author(s): Claire Scobie
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras), Thanjavur (Tanjore)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Tamil Nadu, southern India, 1765. Maya plays among the towering granite temples in the ancient city of Tanjore. Like her mother before her, she is destined to become a devadasi, a dancer for the temple. On the day of...

The Palace of Illusions

The Palace of Illusions
  • Author(s): Chitra Divakaruni
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction

The Palace of Illusions takes us back to a time that is half-history, half-myth, and wholly magical; narrated by Panchaali, the wife of the five Pandava brothers, we are — finally — given a woman’s take on the timeless tale...

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