5 Best india books like Run and Hide by Pankaj Mishra

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Run and Hide

By: Pankaj Mishra

3.39

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a small railway town, Arun always dreamed of escape. His acceptance to the prestigiou…

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1. Gravel Heart

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah

3.99

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Par… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"Bir yaşa gelmeden hayatın ne kadar uzun olduğunu anlamıyorsun. Her şeyinin bittiğiniz sanıyorsun ama bitmiyor, uzun süre bitmiyor. bedeninin hayatta kalmak için ne kadar az güce ihtiyacı olduğunu anl…"

-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gravel Heart

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2. I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

By: Rabih Alameddine

3.97

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

Raised in a hybrid family shaped by divorce and remarriage, and by Beirut in wartime, Sarah finds a… read more

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  • cultural
  • literary fiction
  • literature
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  • contemporary
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"Passion was the antithesis of morality."

-Rabih Alameddine, I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

"The eye always fills in the imperfections."

-Rabih Alameddine, I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

"I believe one has to escape oneself to discover oneself."

-Rabih Alameddine, I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

"How can she tell the difference between freedom and unburdening?"

-Rabih Alameddine, I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

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3. Poland: A History

By: Adam Zamoyski

4.00

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. … read more

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4. The Crow Eaters

By: Bapsi Sidhwa

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

At the dawn of the 20th century in Pakistan, Freddy Junglewalla moves his family -- pregnant wife, … read more

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  • literature
  • india
  • fiction

5. Shalimar the Clown

By: Salman Rushdie

4.30

Format: 189 pages,

This is the story of Maximilian Ophuls, America's counterterrorism chief, one of the makers of the … read more

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6. Afterlives

By: Abdulrazak Gurnah

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. A… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
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  • audiobook
"... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst."

-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

"He suffered his small share of the unavoidable indignities of childhood."

-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

"I have nothing,’ he said. ‘Nor do I,’ she said. ‘We’ll have nothing together."

-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives

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7. The Spoiled Heart

By: Sunjeev Sahota

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Nayan Olak is a man with a past. Haunted by the sudden death of his young son and his mother and dr… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. Tomb of Sand

By: Geetanjali Shree

3.70

Format: 739 pages, Paperback

An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more

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  • literature
  • indian literature
  • india
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"Anything worth doing transcends borders."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."

-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand

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9. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more

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"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

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10. Blackouts

By: Justin Torres

3.77

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of We the Animals, Blackouts mines lost histories--personal and collect… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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11. I Will Greet the Sun Again

By: Khashayar J. Khabushani

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A searing, heartbreaking debut about the powerful bonds that make and break an Iranian-American fam… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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12. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?

By: Raja Shehadeh

4.34

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more

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  • audiobook
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13. The Late Americans

By: Brandon Taylor

3.38

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

A deeply involving new novel of young men and women at a crossroads In the shared and private sp… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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14. The World and All That It Holds

By: Aleksandar Hemon

3.85

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The World and All That It Holds--in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory--… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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15. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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16. Blue Ruin

By: Hari Kunzru

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From one of the sharpest voices in fiction today, a profound and enthralling novel about beauty, po… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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  • audiobook
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17. Her First Palestinian

By: Saeed Teebi

4.37

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Elegant, surprising stories about Palestinian immigrants in Canada navigating their identities in c… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Return of Faraz Ali

By: Aamina Ahmad

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Stunning not only on account of the author's talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in… read more

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19. Tell

By: Jonathan Buckley

3.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, Tell is an exuberant, intensely fluid, and probing examination o… read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Beter wordt het niet: Een reis door het Habsburgse Rijk en de Europese Unie

By: Caroline de Gruyter

3.93

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Europeanen klagen graag dat de Europese Unie zo verdeeld is, zo traag en zo zwak. Maar geloof het o… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. X

By: Davey Davis

3.39

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A thrilling portrait of political terror and the violent pleasures found in warehouses, bathrooms, … read more

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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22. 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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  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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23. Love in the New Millennium

By: Can Xue

3.19

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

The most ambitious work of fiction by a writer widely considered the most important novelist workin… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. The Laughter

By: Sonora Jha

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An aging white male college professor develops a dangerous obsession with his new Pakistani colleag… read more

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  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. The Passenger Box Set: The Passenger, Stella Maris (The Passenger, #1-2)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.83

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with a two-volume masterpiece i… read more

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  • literature
  • fiction
Cover of Run and Hide by Pankaj Mishra

26. Run and Hide

By: Pankaj Mishra

3.39

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a small railway town, Arun always dreamed of escape. His acceptance to the prestigiou… read more

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  • cultural
  • literary fiction
  • unfinished
  • literature
  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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27. The Land of Hope and Fear: Israel's Battle for Its Inner Soul

By: Isabel Kershner

4.09

Format: None pages, Unknown Binding

A rich, wide-ranging portrait of the Israeli people today at a critical juncture in their country’s… read more

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  • audiobook
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28. Three Worlds: Memoir of an Arab-Jew

By: Avi Shlaim

4.38

Format: 400 pages, ebook

In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their belo… read more

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29. One Small Voice

By: Santanu Bhattacharya

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terr… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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30. Good Chaps: How Corrupt Politicians Broke Our Law and Institutions - And What We Can Do About It

By: Simon Kuper

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

The 'Good Chaps' theory holds that those who rise to power in the UK can be trusted to follow the r… read more

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  • audiobook
Cover of Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari

31. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

By: Yuval Noah Harari

4.11

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite all our discove… read more

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22 Top fiction books like Run and Hide by Pankaj Mishra

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Gravel Heart

Abdulrazak Gurnah

3.99

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I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

Rabih Alameddine

3.97

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The Crow Eaters

Bapsi Sidhwa

4.33

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Annie Ernaux

4.28

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Nathan Thrall

4.35

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Wszystko mam bardziej. Życie w spektrum autyzmu

Jacek Hołub

4.10

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4.34

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