My Father's Garden
By: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
3.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2019 Spanning half a life, My Father’s Garden tell…
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1. Cobalt Blue
By: Jerry Pinto , Sachin Kundalkar
3.96
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
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2. Em and The Big Hoom
By: Jerry Pinto
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim, Bombay, through the last decades of the twentieth century, … read more
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"otherwise, she was Em, and most of the time she was Em with an exclamation mark."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
3. Mohanaswamy
By: Vasudhendra , ವಸುಧೇಂದ್ರ , Rashmi Terdal
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The love, lust, separation, power and pangs of this man to man world is shocking, even as it expos… read more
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4. Le bleu est une couleur chaude
By: Jul Maroh
4.24
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
La vie de Clementine bascule le jour ou elle rencontre Emma, une jeune fille aux cheveux bleus, qui… read more
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6. Ghachar Ghochar
By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more
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7. Train to Pakistan
By: Khushwant Singh
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
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8. Mother of 1084
By: Mahasweta Devi , None
3.22
Format: 402 pages, Paperback
Mahasweta Devi is one of India's foremost literary figures, a prolific and best-selling author in B… read more
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9. The Illicit Happiness of Other People
By: Manu Joseph
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Paperback
Ousep Chacko, journalist and failed novelist, prides himself on being "the last of the real men." T… read more
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10. Kari
By: Amruta Patil
3.29
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
They were inseparable - until the day they jumped. Ruth, saved by safety nets, leaves the city. Kar… read more
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12. Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer
By: Cyrus Mistry
3.06
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
At the very edge of its many interlocking worlds, the city of Bombay conceals a near invisible comm… read more
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13. Exteriors
By: Annie Ernaux
3.57
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more
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14. The Last Queen
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
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"People revered his father as the Lion of Punjab, but his mother is the one they should have called Lioness."-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen
15. The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
By: Amia Srinivasan
4.25
Format: 304 pages, ebook
Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in th… read more
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"What does it mean to say that we want to transform the political world - but we ourselves will remain unchanged?"-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
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"It is true that women have always lived in a world created by men and governed by men's rules. But it is also true that men have always lived alongside women who have contested these rules."-Amia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
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16. The Nine-Chambered Heart
By: Janice Pariat
3.52
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
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17. All the Lives We Never Lived
By: Anuradha Roy
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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18. Qabar
By: K.R. Meera
3.95
Format: 111 pages, Hardcover
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19. My Father's Garden
By: Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
3.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JCB PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2019 Spanning half a life, My Father’s Garden tell… read more
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20. Girl in White Cotton
By: Avni Doshi
3.35
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Antara has never understood her mother Tara's decisions - walking out on her marriage to follow a g… read more
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21. I Named My Sister Silence
By: Manoj Rupda
4.29
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
About the Book AN UNUSUALLY QUIET BUT SEARING NOVEL ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF PEOPLES AND LANDS A li… read more
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