The Whispering Chinar
By: Ali Rohila
3.26
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Charbagh, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a short detour from the Grand Trunk Road that leads towards Afghan…
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1. The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories, Volume One: Where on Earth (The Unreal and the Real, #1)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
3.24
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The Unreal and the Realis a major event not to be missed. In this two-volume selection of Ursula K.… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
2. Sultana's Dream
By: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain , Durga Bai
3.72
Format: 78 pages, Hardcover
The female narrator of Sultana's Dreamwanders into a dream city that shuns war and violence. In thi… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
3. The Palace of Illusions
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of an am… read more
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- fiction
4. Fireflies in the Mist
By: Qurratulain Hyder
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Championed by Salman Rushdie in The New Yorker, Qurratulain Hyder is one of the "must reads" of Ind… read more
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5. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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- fiction
"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
6. The Door-to-Door Bookstore
By: Carsten Henn
4.14
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
The charming international bestseller about an elderly bookseller who delivers his recommendations … read more
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- fiction
"If you can tell when a book is good, why don’t you write one yourself?"-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore
"You need to read more. It makes the brain flexible, so that anything can fit into it."-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore
"She didn't need to believe in God; it was entirely sufficient that God believed in her."-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore
"It has been said that books find their own readers—but sometimes they need someone to show them the way."-Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore
7. 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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- fiction
"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
8. China Room
By: Sunjeev Sahota
3.78
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
"The follow-up to his Booker Prize-shortlisted The Runaways, Sunjeev Sahota's new novel follows cha… read more
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- fiction
"It’s different for women, isn’t it? They have no choice where they go. They grow up in a prison and then get married into one."-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
"You know what the best thing is about falling out of love? It sets you free. Because when you’re in love it is everything, it is imprisoning, it is all there is, and you’d do anything, anything to ke…"-Sunjeev Sahota, China Room
9. 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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- fiction
"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
10. Sakina’s Kiss
By: Vivek Shanbhag
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men cla… read more
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- fiction
11. Butter
By: Asako Yuzuki
3.60
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more
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- fiction
"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"-Asako Yuzuki, Butter
12. A Passage North
By: Anuk Arudpragasam
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and th… read more
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- fiction
"Between the forgetting that takes place as a result of our consent, which is a forgetting we need in order to reconcile our pasts and presents, and the forgetting that is imposed on us against our ow…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the …"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"It was the fact, above all, that sudden or violent deaths could occur not merely in a war zone or during race riots but during the slow, unremarkable course of everyday life that made them so disturb…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was a difference between the pleasure that soothed and lulled one to sleep and pleasure that drew the self more widely and vividly into the world, and thinking of his return to Colombo now it s…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
13. When We Were Sisters
By: Fatimah Asghar
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An orphan grapples with gender, siblinghood, family, and coming-of-age as a Muslim in America in th… read more
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- fiction
14. Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
By: Mustafa Akyol
4.38
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating journey into Islam's diverse history of ideas, making an argument for an "Islamic Enl… read more
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"So instead of seeing anything outside of Islam as darkness, we Muslims should accept that there are objective values of “good"-Mustafa Akyol, Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
"The problem became more acute over time, especially with modernity: modern life produced many new areas of human activity and knowledge, whereas Islamic jurisprudence kept offering the same old rules…"-Mustafa Akyol, Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance
15. Best of Friends
By: Kamila Shamsie
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Home Fire comes the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendsh… read more
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- fiction
"Perhaps friendship was not only about what you said to each other, but also about what you didn't"-Kamila Shamsie, Best of Friends
16. The Education of Yuri
By: Jerry Pinto
4.13
Format: 408 pages, Paperback
‘We are born alone and we die alone. In between, we reach out to other people.’ At fifteen, Yuri… read more
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- fiction
17. روحزن / Rohzin
By: Rahman Abbas
3.49
Format: 355 pages, Paperback
A book of eight chapters, Rohzin or The Melancholy of the Soul, by Rahman Abbas is a veritable feas… read more
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18. Chronicle of an Hour and a Half
By: Saharu Nusaiba Kannanari
4.30
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
A COMPELLINGLY IMAGINED, TIGHT-PACED STORY OF SPIRALLING RUMOURS AND MASS HYSTERIA. In the foot… read more
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19. The Birth Lottery and Other Surprises
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.82
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
'It's a simple car bomb, and it's rigged to a busload of schoolgirls. No one knows it is there exce… read more
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- fiction
20. En agosto nos vemos
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.63
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez Cada mes de a… read more
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- fiction
"Do you know how old I am?"-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
21. Hostile Homelands: The New Alliance Between India and Israel
By: Azad Essa
4.54
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
'A valuable study, with rich insights' - Noam Chomsky 'Extraordinary' - Ilan Pappe ‘Formidab… read more
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22. Aligarh Muslim University : The Making of the Modern Indian Muslim
By: Mohammed Wajihuddin
3.70
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) completed hundred years in December 2020. In December 1920, the… read more
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23. Maria, Just Maria
By: Sandhya Mary
4.02
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
'A rare novel.' - S. HAREESH 'A must-read!' - DAISY ROCKWELL Following the death of her grand… read more
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24. Sin: Stories
By: Wajida Tabassum
3.93
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A nymphomaniac nawab and his fiercely clever footman. The awakening of a servant-child's passion… read more
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25. The Whispering Chinar
By: Ali Rohila
3.26
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In Charbagh, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, a short detour from the Grand Trunk Road that leads towards Afghan… read more
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26. Won't You Stay, Radhika?
By: Usha Priyamvada
3.89
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
After her widowed father marries a younger woman, Radhika's world falls apart. She feels betrayed—t… read more
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27. The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
By: William Dalrymple
4.38
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
For most of its modern history, India was fated to be on the receiving end of cultural influence fr… read more
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28. A Speck of Coal Dust
By: Rohit Manchanda
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
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29. Urdu: The Best Stories of Our Times
By: Rakhshanda Jalil
4.22
Format: 194 pages, Kindle Edition
The Best Stories of Our Times, edited and translated by Rakhshanda Jalil, presents a kaleidoscopic … read more
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30. On Being Indian: The Organic Intellectual, Mystical Poetry, and Lineages of Indian Rationalism
By: Amit Chaudhuri
4.10
Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition
About the BookA SHARP AND TIMELY ASSESSMENT OF WHAT THE PROTESTS OF 2020 SHOWED US ABOUT BEING INDI… read more
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31. Fool Bahadur
By: Jayanath Pati
3.33
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A delightful caper through colonial Bihar, Fool Bahadur by Jayanath Pati is a humorous reflection o… read more
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