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A Novel
by Manil Suri
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by Tarun J. Tejpal
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsPart thriller and part erotic romance, full of dark humor and knife-edged suspense, The Story of My Assassins is an awesome adventure into the heart of today's India.
by Thrity Umrigar
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsFilled with satisfyingly real characters and glowing with local color, The Weight of Heaven is a rare glimpse of a family and a country struggling under pressures beyond their control. Umrigar illuminates how slowly we recover from unforgettable loss, how easily good intentions can turn evil, and how far a person will go to build a new world for ...
by Amitav Ghosh
Published Sep 2009
Read ReviewsA motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts embark on a voyage across the Indian Ocean in the midst of the Opium Wars between Britain and China.
by Aravind Adiga
Published Oct 2008
Read ReviewsBalram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life - having nothing but his own wits to help him along.
by Robert Hellenga
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsA novel about a man's search for meaning that illuminates our deepest concerns: love and death, marriage and family, and the mysterious tug of beauty on the human heart.
by Thrity Umrigar
Published Feb 2007
Read ReviewsSet in modern-day India, The Space Between Us is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife and Bhima, a stoic illiterate who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years.
by Peter R. Pouncey
Published Jun 2006
Read ReviewsA brief, lyrical novel with a powerful emotional charge about three wars of the twentieth century and an ever-deepening marriage.
by Sonny Brewer
Published Mar 2006
Read ReviewsA moving and irresistible book based on the true story of Henry Stuart who, given less than a year to live, moved to Alabama, discarded his boots and built a round hut that he lived in for the next twenty years.
by Rohinton Mistry
Published Nov 2001
Read Reviews"Astonishing. . . . A rich and varied spectacle, full of wisdom and laughter and the touches of the unexpectedly familiar through which literature illuminates life." - The Wall Street Journal.
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