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Schrödinger’s Cat May or May Not Have Been Here
- Location(s): Mussoorie, Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Coming of Age
- Era(s): late 1970s/early 1980s
What good is a superstitious scientist? For Krishna Kumar, what starts as a harmless superstition sparks a journey that no scientist could have predicted. Aged 12, Krishna is recognised as a child prodigy and gets a prestigious scholarship to...
- 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...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1970s
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): current
Rakhi is a twenty-three-year-old haunted by the grisly aftermath of an incident that led to the loss of her best friend eleven years ago. Constantly reminded she doesn’t belong, Rakhi lives alone in a Mumbai slum, working as a...
Swimming Lessons and other stories from Firozsha Baag
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): 1980s
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Police Procedural
- Era(s): Contemporary
Blue Mumbai Thriller #2 A ritual murder at a Mumbai temple exposes the city’s dark secrets and ravages the personal life of a detective in this sequel to The Blue Bar. Amid incessant rains pounding down on Mumbai, Senior...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Crime, Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1920s
(A Perveen Mistry Novel Book 3) November 1921. Edward VIII, Prince of Wales and future ruler of India, is arriving in Bombay to begin a fourmonth tour. The Indian subcontinent is chafing under British rule, and Bombay solicitor Perveen Mistry isn’t surprised when local unrest...
- Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 2000s
In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever...
- Location(s): Cornwall, Greece, Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Psychological Thriller
- Era(s): Dual timeline 1970s / 2017
In a family built on lies, who can you trust? Audrey Bailey will never forget the moment she met Ralph Templeton in the sweltering heat of a Bombay café. Her lonely life over, she was soon married with two...
- Location(s): Paris, French Alps, Mumbai (Bombay)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
“Slumdog Millionaire meets Ratatouille” (The New York Times Book Review) in this “delicious fairytale-like read” (NPR) about family, nationality, and the mysteries of good taste. Born above his grandfather’s modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan Haji first experienced life through...
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