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…
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1. Burnt Shadows
By: Kamila Shamsie
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002, as a man i… read more
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- historical
- asia
- pakistan
- india
- fiction
- historical fiction
"When the war's over, I'll be kind."-Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
"بالنسبة الي هيروكو، أن تعرف يعني أن تُريد"-Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
"إن كان أعظم ما فقدهُ في حياته ليس سوى حلم كان يعرف دائمًا أنه مجرد حلم، فهو إذن من المحظوظين."-Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
"There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn’t learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart."-Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
2. Kanthapura
By: Raja Rao
3.39
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
This is the story of how Mahatma Gandhi's struggle for independence from the British came to a typi… read more
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- asia
- indian literature
- india
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Seenu rang the gong, and the eyes shut themselves in silence, and the brahmin heart and the weaver heart and pariah heart seemed to beat the one beat of Siva dancing"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
"There is but one force in life and that is Truth, and there is but one love in life and that is love of mankind, and there is but one God in life and that is the God of all"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
"O fire, O soul Give us the spark of God-eternal, That friend to friend and friend to foe, One shall we stand before HIM. And the flame of Jatin, And the fire of Bhagath, And the love of the Mahatma i…"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
"And the police got nervous and they began to kick us in our backs and stomachs, and the crowd shouted 'Mahatma Gandhi ki jai!' and someone took a kerosene tin and began to beat it, and someone took a…"-Raja Rao, Kanthapura
3. 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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- indian literature
- india
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
4. Helium
By: Jaspreet Singh
3.19
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
On November 1st 1984, a day after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a ninet… read more
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- historical
- india
- asia
- fiction
5. East, West
By: Salman Rushdie
3.56
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In these nine stories, Salman Rushdie looks at what happens when East meets West, at the forces tha… read more
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- indian literature
- india
- fiction
"Did you know, ji,’ Zulu offered, ‘that the map of Tolkien’s Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are right here, in our midst."-Salman Rushdie, East, West
"At sixteen, you still think you can escape from your father. You aren't listening to his voice speaking through your mouth, you don't see how your gestures already mirror his; you don't see him in th…"-Salman Rushdie, East, West
"Ci offendiamo facilmente, mortalmente. Siamo arrivati a pensare che offendersi sia uno dei diritti fondamentali. Pochissime cose apprezziamo più della nostra indignazione, che ci dà, a parer nostro, …"-Salman Rushdie, East, West
"We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives us, in our opinion, the mora…"-Salman Rushdie, East, West
6. 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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- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. 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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8. Collected Poems
By: Ted Hughes , Paul Keegan
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
All the poems of a great 20th-century poet From the astonishing debut Hawk in the Rain(1957) to Bir… read more
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- fiction
9. A Case of Exploding Mangoes
By: Mohammed Hanif
4.06
Format: 360 pages,
Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betra… read more
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- asia
- pakistan
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10. 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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- historical
- asia
- pakistan
- indian literature
- india
- fiction
- historical fiction
11. 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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- indian literature
- india
- fiction
12. 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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- indian literature
- india
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- historical fiction
"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
13. Train to Pakistan
By: Khushwant Singh
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
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14. Moth Smoke
By: Mohsin Hamid
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
When Daru Shezad is fired from his banking job in Lahore, he begins a decline that plummets the len… read more
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15. 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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- asia
- indian literature
- india
- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
16. 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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17. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
By: Urvashi Butalia
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Oral History Association Book Award 2001 The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakis… read more
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18. Kartography
By: Kamila Shamsie
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents… read more
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19. Meatless Days
By: None
4.25
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
In this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan, Suleri intertwines the violent hist… read more
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20. 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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- historical fiction
"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
21. Khol Do / کھول دو
By: سعادت حسن منٹو
4.49
Format: None pages, Paperback
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