The Shadow Lines
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families--one Eng…
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1. Tara: A play in two acts
By: Mahesh Dattani
3.94
Format: 61 pages, Hardcover
‘A playwright of world stature’—Mario Relich, Wasafiri Tara and Chandan have always been close. Th… read more
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2. The Good Woman of Setzuan
By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley
3.67
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
In 1952, Hannah Arendt hailed Bertolt Brecht as "beyond a doubt the greatest living German poet and… read more
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- literature
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"Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!" Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined."-Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan
3. The Way of the World
By: William Congreve
3.31
Format: 124 pages, Paperback
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful sca… read more
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"One no more owes one's beauty to a lover than one's wit to an echo"-William Congreve, The Way of the World
4. The Home and the World
By: Rabindranath Tagore , Anita Desai , Surendranath Tagore , None , William Radice
3.83
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakeni… read more
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"Mientras estemos en llamas, sepamos arder y bullir"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"জীবনটাকে কেঁদে ভাসিয়ে দেওয়ার চেয়ে হেসে উড়িয়ে দেওয়াই ভালো।"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"Hasta el océano de las lágrimas tiene otra orilla; si así no fuera, nadie habría llorado nunca"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
"When at last we have to die it will be time enough to get cold. While we are on fire let us seethe and boil."-Rabindranath Tagore, The Home and the World
5. That Long Silence
By: Shashi Deshpande
3.56
Format: 193 pages, Paperback
Jaya's life comes apart at the seams when her husband is asked to leave his job while allegations o… read more
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6. 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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"What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?"-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Was there a drain?' 'No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
"otherwise, she was Em, and most of the time she was Em with an exclamation mark."-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom
7. 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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8. The Inheritance of Loss
By: Kiran Desai
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in o… read more
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9. In Custody
By: Anita Desai
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custodyis woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small t… read more
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10. The Rover
By: Aphra Behn , Simon Trussler
3.18
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Aphra Behn was the first female professional writer in England and the most prolific playwright of … read more
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11. Funny Boy
By: Shyam Selvadurai
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny b… read more
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12. Fire on the Mountain
By: Anita Desai
4.01
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
A classic from one of India's greatest writers with a stunning new cover in water colour. Gone are … read more
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13. The Shadow Lines
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families--one Eng… read more
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14. Swami and Friends
By: R.K. Narayan , Madhukar Dharmapurikar
4.15
Format: 399 pages, Paperback
"There are writers--Tolstoy and Henry James to name two--whom we hold in awe, writers--Turgenev and… read more
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15. Cracking India
By: Bapsi Sidhwa
3.67
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child… read more
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16. The Guide
By: R.K. Narayan , None , Michael Gorra
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
R.K. Narayan(1906-2001) is unusual among Indian authors writing in English in that he has stayed co… read more
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17. Midnight’s Children
By: Salman Rushdie
3.98
Format: 647 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more
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"Life again refused to remain lifesized"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
18. Train to Pakistan
By: Khushwant Singh
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
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19. 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
20. Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard
By: Kiran Desai
4.50
Format: 142 pages, Paperback
Sampath Chawla was born in a time of drought that ended with a vengeance the night of his birth. Al… read more
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21. The Dark Holds No Terrors
By: Shashi Deshpande
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Why are you still alive--why didn't you die?" Years later, Sarita still remembers her mother's bitt… read more
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22. Untouchable
By: E.M. Forster , Mulk Raj Anand
5.00
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Bakha is a young man, proud and even attractive, yet none the less he is an outcast in India's cast… read more
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23. The Bachelor of Arts
By: R.K. Narayan
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
"There are writers--Tolstoy and Henry James to name two--whom we hold in awe, writers--Turgenev and… read more
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24. Family Matters
By: Rohinton Mistry
3.44
Format: 406 pages, Paperback
Rohinton Mistry's enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait o… read more
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25. 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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26. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.73
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more
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"Let us not reason like cowards,"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"There is no story that is not true."-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
27. 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
28. Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
By: Perumal Murugan
4.11
Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition
Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift fro… read more
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29. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.73
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more
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"Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
30. 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
31. Bombay Balchao
By: Jane Borges
4.18
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Bombay was the city everyone came to in the early decades of the nineteenth century: among them, th… read more
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