Books set in India (22)


1.
Bengal Nights

Bengal Nights : A Novel by Mircea Eliade EN

Rating: 4     5 Votes
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
A semi-autobiographical romance between a French engineer and the daughter of a Hindu family with which he stayed in India. A case of East meets West with all the joys and woes that such encounters bring. For her version of the story see her novel, It Does Not Die.
Recommended: 03 Dec 2022

2.
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami EN

Rating: 3.6     7 Votes
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
LONGLIST 2008 - IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Anita Rau Badami's acclaimed novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? chronicles the stories of three women, linked in love and tragedy, over a span of fifty years, sweeping from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air India flight 182 off the coast of Ireland in 1985. Alive with Badami's warmth and humanity, and brimming with the daily sights and sounds of both Canada and India, this novel brilliantly conveys the tumultuous effects of the past on new immigrants, and the ways in which memory and myth, the personal and the po... continue

3.
DAURA : A Novel

DAURA : A Novel by ANUKRTI. UPADHYAY EN

Rating: 5     1 Vote
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
A young District Collector is posted to one of the furthest outposts of rural Rajasthan. As he becomes more and more involved with the lives and troubles of the common people in his district, he finds himself sucked deeper and deeper into the dark heart of the desert.

4.
Immortals of Meluha

Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi EN

Rating: 5     1 Vote
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
This is the first book in a trilogy on Shiva, the simple man whose karma re-cast his as our Mahadev, the God of Gods.

5.
Life of Pi

Life of Pi by Yann Martel EN

Rating: 3.5     3307 Votes
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Yann Martel's beloved Life of Pi-- recently made into a stunning 3D film directed by Ang Lee-- is now available in a deluxe pocket edition with leatherette cover.

6.
Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie EN

Rating: 4     3 Votes
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker) WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • The fortieth anniversary edition, featuring a new introduction by the author Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehr... continue

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Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur EN

Rating: 4     3 Votes
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
Collection of poetry.
Recommended: 24 Feb 2023

8.
One Small Voice

One Small Voice by Santanu Bhattacharya EN

Rating: 5     1 Vote
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that will alter the course of his life- one to which his family turn a blind eye. As he approaches adulthood, Shabby focuses on the only path he believes will buy him an escape - good school, good degree, good job, good car. But when he arrives in Mumbai in his twenties, he begins to question whether there might be other roads he could choose. His new friends, Syed and Shruti, are asking the same questions - together, buoyed by the freedom of the big city, they are rewrit... continue
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Recommended: 26 Dec 2022

9.
Pinjar

Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories by Amrita Pitam EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
"The skeleton ... [is] set against the background of religious and clan feuds on the eve of Partition ... That man is a compelling account of a young man born under strange circumstances and abandoned at the altar of God"--Page 4 of cover

10.
Quiet Screams to the Quiet Healer

Quiet Screams to the Quiet Healer : A Child's Perspective of Domestic Violence Using it as a Weapon to Heal People Through a Journey of Mystery and Riddles by Nilanjana Haldar EN

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Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
A CHILD DISCOVERS THE SECRET OF USING HER UNACKNOWLEDGED PAIN TO HAUL YOUTHS FROM THEIR AGONY OF WITNESSING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AT HOME. BUT THAT JOURNEY IS LOADED WITH MYSTERY! Domestic Abuse.....Magic.....Supernatural....Romance......Mysterious encounters....the book has it all! Being raised in a home of domestic abuse, Sanjana frequently escapes from her home until she is forced to part from her childhood friend and the city where she was born. Right before she leaves, she makes a strange discovery in her hometown--a couple of bandit-looking men confuse her imagination in the middle of an aba... continue
Tags: Set in INDIA
Recommended: 11 Apr 2023


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