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The Covenant of Water

The Covenant of Water
  • Author(s): Abraham Verghese
  • Location(s): Kerala, South India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1900-1977

‘One of the best books I’ve read in my entire life. It’s epic. It’s transportive . . . It was unputdownable!’ Oprah Winfrey, OprahDaily.com Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern...

The God of Small Things

The God of Small Things
  • Author(s): Arundhati Roy
  • Location(s): Kottayam
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother’s factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence of youth, they fashion...

The Last Hangman

The Last Hangman
  • Author(s): Shashi Warrier
  • Location(s): Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Travancore (until 1947)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

In the heat and the dust of the Indian south, the last hangman of the former princely state of Travancore commits his life to paper. In seven notebooks he remembers the people he has killed, calmly recalling the final...

Om Shanti, Babe

Om Shanti, Babe
  • Author(s): Helen Limon
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Cassia can’t wait for her first visit to India – Bollywood glamour, new friends to admire her uber-cool street-dance moves…. But as she steps into real Indian life, NOTHING is as she expected… Cass is with her mum in...

A Mystery at Lili Villa

A Mystery at Lili Villa
  • Author(s): Arathi Menon, Shruti Prabhu (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

Cousins Arj, Tam, and Mira are spending their summer vacation in Elathoor, a little village in Kerala when their family home, Lili Villa, is broken into and some jewelry is stolen. The Terrific Three set out to solve the...

A Preface to Man

A Preface to Man
  • Author(s): Subash Chandran
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1900 - early 2000s

After years of squandering his creativity, working for a toy company that makes drum-playing monkeys, Jithendran dies rather abruptly, leaving behind some notes on a novel that he had dreamt of writing in his youth. As his wife Ann...

Inga

Inga
  • Author(s): Poile Sengupta
  • Location(s): Delhi, Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

If anyone could transform laughter to light, she did, Inga. Radiance upon radiance of laughter,chime upon bell chime of light sparkled and shone everywhere. It was as if the sky showered tiny star grains that scattered, glinting, on the...

Kurinji Flowers

Kurinji Flowers
  • Author(s): Clare Flynn
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s and 40s

An emotional love story set in the last days of colonial India After an abusive relationship with a predatory older man, debutante Ginny Dunbar is publicly disgraced when her artist lover exhibits a nude painting of her in a...

Mistress

Mistress
  • Author(s): Anita Nair
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary

When travel writer Christopher Stewart arrives at a riverside resort in Kerala to meet Koman, Radha’s uncle and a famous Kathakali dancer, he enters a world of masks and repressed emotions. From their first meeting, both Radha and her...

Mother Mary Comes To Me

Mother Mary Comes To Me
  • Author(s): Arundhati Roy
  • Location(s): Delhi, Kerala
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became the...

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