Author(s): Karin Fossum, Charlotte Barslund (translator)
Location(s): India, Norway
Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
Era(s): early 2000s
When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found...
The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai’s extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel. High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time. The judge, broken by a world too messy for...
Four siblings. A country in ruin. One quest to save them all. Vira is desperate to get out of her mother’s shadow and establish her legacy as a revered queen of Ashoka. But with the country’s only quarry running...
At midnight where the jasmine blooms, a woman waits for her lover… Sara Archer’s future as the dutiful wife of a British official in India seems assured, until a chance meeting with the gorgeous and powerful Ravi Sabran changes...
The Jungle Book key characters are Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves and Sher Khan, biggest tiger in India. As Baloo the sleepy brown bear, Bagheera the cunning black panther, Kaa the python, and his other animal friends teach...
There once was a king who hated bath time so much that he never washed. He was a very smelly king! The king is finally persuaded to bathe in the river but no matter how clean the rest of...
The Kolkata Conundrum A novel by Kalyan Lahiri The mysterious and alluring Pramila, resident of Avantika Heights, is brutally murdered. Sudhir Das, the security guard from the Golden Red Security Agency, is caught red-handed.In steps Sudhir’s boss, young Orko...
In the claustrophobic, mannered world of British India, Linny Ingram seems the perfect society wife: pretty, gracious, subservient. But appearances can be deceptive. Linny Ingram was born Linny Gow, an orphan raised in the gray slums of Liverpool. Sold...
Location(s): East India, Mexico, United States (USA)
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Contemporary
When Sonia and Sunny first glimpse each other on an overnight train, they are immediately captivated, yet also embarrassed by the fact that their grandparents had once tried to matchmake them, a clumsy meddling that only served to drive...
WHEN PHOTOGRAPHER KARAN SETH COMES TO BOMBAY INTENT ON IMMORTALIZING A CITY CHARGED BY CELEBRITY AND SENSATION, HE IS INSTANTLY DRAWN IN BY ITS ALLURE AND CRUELTY. ALONG THE WAY, HE DISCOVERS UNLIKELY ALLIES: SAMAR, AN ECCENTRIC PIANIST; ZAIRA,...
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