Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul
By: Taran N. Khan
4.07
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
When Taran N. Khan first arrived in Kabul in the spring of 2006-five years after the Taliban govern…
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1. Malgudi Days
By: R.K. Narayan , Jhumpa Lahiri
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennial Introduc… read more
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2. The Flavour Thesaurus: Pairings, Recipes and Ideas for the Creative Cook
By: Niki Segnit
3.90
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Unique, beautifully written and ceaselessly imaginative, "The Flavor Thesaurus" is a completely new… read more
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3. 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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4. Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams
By: Barbara Sher
3.00
Format: None pages,
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5. Whole Numbers and Half Truths
By: Rukmini S.
4.22
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to… read more
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6. The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History
By: Jeremy Bowen
4.38
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
A Sunday Times Paperback of the YearA Spectator and New Statesman Book of the Year‘An illuminating … read more
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7. Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
By: Svetlana Alexievich
4.49
Format: 298 pages, Kindle Edition
Stunning stories about what it was like to be a Soviet child during the upheaval and horror of the … read more
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"For a child, the loss of a parent is the loss of memory itself."-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
"En la guerra hi penso per mirar de comprendre-la... Si no, de què serveix?"-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
"Ningú no volia conèixer ningú, perquè l’endemà aquella persona podia morir."-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
"А однажды на улице встретила мужчину, похожего на папу. Как мой папа. Долго шла за ним… Я же не видела папу мертвым…"-Svetlana Alexievich, Last Witnesses: An Oral History of the Children of World War II
8. 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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"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
9. 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
10. Braised Pork
By: An Yu
3.45
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
One morning in autumn, Jia Jia walks into the bathroom of her Beijing apartment to find her husband… read more
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"You're like water. Your beauty is soft and quiet."-An Yu, Braised Pork
"Her father's hands, holding the chopsticks, were slightly unsteady - something she had first noticed years ago when he took her out to lunch, but tonight, it made her heart clench and tremble."-An Yu, Braised Pork
11. Teen Couple Have Fun Outdoors
By: Aravind Jayan
3.52
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
It is a day of triumph for Appa and Amma, who have driven home a shiny new Honda Civic to show off … read more
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12. Exquisite Cadavers
By: Meena Kandasamy
3.82
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Karim and Maya are lovers. They share a home, they worry about money, and then Maya falls pregnant.… read more
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13. A Stranger in Your Own City: Travels in the Middle East's Long War
By: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning journalist’s powerful portrait of his native Baghdad, the people of Iraq, and twen… read more
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14. Inside Qatar: Hidden Stories from One of the Richest Nations on Earth
By: John McManus
3.94
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
An intimate portrait of life in one of the world's richest nations ahead of the FIFA 2022 World Cup… read more
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15. Missing In Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy
By: Pranay Kotasthane
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In Search of an Adarsh Indian State In India, public policies are all around us. Despite this pe… read more
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16. The Crossway
By: Guy Stagg
3.71
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' in 2018. In 2013 Guy Stagg made a pilgrimage from Canterbury to… read more
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"The pilgrimage provided a sense of purpose. As well as the long march towards Jerusalem, it also knitted my life into the landscape. The months were replaced by the shifting seasons, while he weeks w…"-Guy Stagg, The Crossway
"At the start of the journey, I thought I was walking into the wreckage of Christianity. My impression now was of how much remained, holding tight to its decayed inheritance. Despite the decline of re…"-Guy Stagg, The Crossway
17. No Nation for Women: Reportage on Rape from India, the World's Largest Democracy
By: Priyanka Dubey
4.20
Format: 320 pages, ebook
Numbers convey, in part, why India is referred to as one of the world’s rape capitals—one woman is … read more
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18. In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy
By: Vijay Kelkar
4.22
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
As a $3-trillion economy, India is on her way to becoming an economic superpower. Between 1991 and … read more
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19. Goa
By: Maria Aurora Couto
3.69
Format: 456 pages, Paperback
A Daughter's Story, written by Maria Aurora Couto, is a novel about 450 years of Goa's history. The… read more
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20. Shadow City: A Woman Walks Kabul
By: Taran N. Khan
4.07
Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition
When Taran N. Khan first arrived in Kabul in the spring of 2006-five years after the Taliban govern… read more
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21. Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings
By: Saumya Roy
3.80
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
'Roy has a journalist's unflinching eye, a poet's talent for detail, and a radical sense of empathy… read more
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