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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorInterpreter of Maladies
Jhumpa Lahiri · 208 pages
Title: Interpreter of Maladies. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin. "Interpreter of Maladies" is a collection of nine short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri, exploring the lives of Indian and Indian-American characters who are grappling with issues of identity, displacement, and the complexities of human relationships. Here’s a brief summary of each story in the collection: "A Temporary Matter": A couple,
Arranged Marriage: Stories
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 320 pages
The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories
Ruskin Bond · 248 pages
Love and Longing in Bombay
Vikram Chandra · 270 pages
From the acclaimed author of Red Earth and Pouring Rain, Five haunting stories that point a vivid picture of Bombay - its ghosts, its passions, its feuds, its mysteries -- and explore timeless questions of the human spirit. The stories in Love and Longing in Bombay are linked by a single narrator, and elusive civil servant, who recounts an extraordinary sequence of tales to those seated around h
Indian Fairy Tales
Joseph Jacobs · 255 pages
Twenty-nine traditional tales from India include "The Tiger, the Brahman, and the Jackal," "The Lion and the Crane," and "Why the Fish Laughed."
East, West
Salman Rushdie · 216 pages
In this brilliant collection - his first major work of fiction since The Satanic Verses - one of the great writers in the world today gives us nine stories that together reveal the intricate intimacies and unbridgeable distances between the East and the West. A rickshaw driver dreams of being a Bombay movie star while, in a futuristic Western dystopia, legendary Hollywood icons acquire magic powe
The Elephanta Suite
Paul Theroux · 288 pages
"This startling and satisfying book captures the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today's India. Theroux's characters risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent's well-worn paths to discover woe or truth or peace. A middle-aged couple on vacation veers heedlessly from idyll to chaos. A buttoned-up Boston lawyer finds succor in Mumbai's reeking slums. And a young woman befriends a
Kuttiedathi and Other Stories
M.T. Vasudevan Nair · 192 pages
Selected stories from the Malayalam author's works.
The Magic Drum And Other Favourite Stories
Sudha Murty · 180 pages
it is a Plesant book filled with classical stories with stories of justice and fun. A must read for children and adults