The Night of Broken Glass
By: Feroz Rather
3.67
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Over the last three decades, Kashmir has been ravaged by insurgency. While reams have been written …
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1. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
By: William Dalrymple , Olivia Fraser
4.12
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old his… read more
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"There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, tr…"-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
2. Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
By: William Dalrymple , Anita Anand
4.04
Format: 335 pages,
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated a… read more
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3. Lysistrata
By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden
3.87
Format: 132 pages, Paperback
Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more
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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."-Aristophanes, Lysistrata
4. Human Acts
By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith
4.37
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer… read more
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6. And the Mountains Echoed
By: Khaled Hosseini
4.07
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one...Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Par… read more
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"Who rebels with mathematics?"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"Even your graffiti artists spray Rumi on the walls"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"It was you Nabi. It was always you. Didn't you know?"-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
"these random unkind moment that catch you wen you least expect them."-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed
7. The Country Without a Post Office
By: Agha Shahid Ali
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Translucent elegies 'for the city that is leaving forever' (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who al… read more
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8. Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
By: Elizabeth Wein
4.26
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Oct. 11th, 1943 - A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are … read more
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9. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
10. The Half Mother
By: None
3.62
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The night is tired now, the old moon, hanging in the dark sky, is tired too. It is the 1990s and Ka… read more
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11. The Collaborator
By: Mirza Waheed
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
It is Kashmir in the early 1990s and war has finally reached the isolated village of Nowgam close t… read more
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12. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
By: Arundhati Roy
3.12
Format: 56 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling, richly moving new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Th… read more
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13. Home Fire
By: Kamila Shamsie
4.09
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's de… read more
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15. The Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems
By: Agha Shahid Ali , None
4.33
Format: 57 pages, Hardcover
Agha Shahid Ali died in 2001, mourned by myriad lovers of poetry and devoted students. This volume,… read more
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16. Shame
By: Salman Rushdie
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shar… read more
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18. The Vegetarian
By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith
4.00
Format: 204 pages,
Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood… read more
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19. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
20. When We Cease to Understand the World
By: Benjamín Labatut
4.14
Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition
One of The New York Times Book Review ’s 10 Best Books of 2021 Shortlisted for the 2021 Internat… read more
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"Como la luna en el budismo, una partícula no existe; el acto de medición la vuelve un objeto real"-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Reality, they said to those present, does not exist as something separate from the act of observation."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Una de las cosas que siempre me han sorprendido de Chile es la aversión que sentimos por la cordillera. No habitamos las montañas."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
"Solo una visione di insieme, come quella di un santo, di un pazzo o di un mistico, ci permetterà di decifrare la forma in cui è organizzato l’universo."-Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World
21. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
22. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
23. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
24. 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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"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
25. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
26. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
By: Shrayana Bhattacharya
4.29
Format: 384 pages, None
In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the j… read more
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"These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable. Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fanta…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized a…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Critics often say that DDLJ, with its emphasis on patriarchal permission for young love, discourages dissent. This argument narrows the space for dissent by legitimizing it only in its most blatant, …"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
27. Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
By: Farah Bashir
4.10
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
Rumours of Spring is the unforgettable account of Farah Bashir's adolescence spent in Srinagar in t… read more
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"The house I would go back to would be bereft of her presence but filled with her memories. Our home, the little monument of memory."-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
"I thought maybe if I looked ugly and less pleasant, the men would not look at me and I'd be safe. I wouldn't wash my face for days. I didn't want to look attractive in any way, at all, lest it invite…"-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
"...the constant shifting of power had done its damage. I didn't know then, but it was the beginning of an apathy for my own self that would last for a long time. Our lives were controlled from elsewh…"-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
"Why are people okay with not walking? Does Father not miss his daily walks to the shrine and his shop? What about Mother and her long walk to her parents' home? Does Bobeh not get bored now that she …"-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
28. The Far Field
By: Madhuri Vijay
3.88
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Gorgeously tactile and sweeping in historical and socio-political scope, Pushcart Prize-winner Madh… read more
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"I suspect the truth was that, like so many who cloak themselves in mistrust and call it independence, I was merely a coward."-Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field
"...cynical and hardened as I believed myself to be at twenty-four, I had never that pity might, in fact, be just another facet of love."-Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field
"I had yet to understand just how many shapes a person’s desire could take, and how few of them, in the end, took the shape of the body."-Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field
"This country, already ancient when I was born in 1982, has changed every instant I’ve been alive. Titanic events have ripped it apart year after year, each time rearranging it along slightly differen…"-Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field
29. The Night of Broken Glass
By: Feroz Rather
3.67
Format: 232 pages, Paperback
Over the last three decades, Kashmir has been ravaged by insurgency. While reams have been written … read more
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