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Sculpting the Elephant

Sculpting the Elephant
  • Author(s): Sylvia Vetta
  • Location(s): North India
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1980s and 1880s

Harry King, artist and antiques dealer, thinks he has just made the worst purchase of his life – an enormous Victorian chest of drawers filled with ancient newspapers and bric-a-brac that now takes up half his shop. But when...

In Custody

In Custody
  • Author(s): Anita Desai
  • Location(s): North India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th Century

Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India. An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees a way to escape from the meanness of his daily life...

Tomb of Sand

Tomb of Sand
  • Author(s): Daisy Rockwell (Translator), Geetanjali Shree
  • Location(s): North India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Contemporary looking back

Set in Northern India. An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention including striking up...

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