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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Home and the World
Rabindranath Tagore, Sourindro Mohun Tagore
I mother, today there comes back to mind the vermilion mark at the parting of your hair, the sari which you used to wear, with its wide red border, and those wonderful eyes of yours, full of depth and peace. They came at the start of my life's journey, like the first streak of dawn, giving me golden provision to carry me on my way.
Chokher Bali
Rabindranath Tagore, Radha Chakravarty · 298 pages
Nectar in a Sieve
Kamala Markandaya · 208 pages
Srikanta
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay · 504 pages
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie · 548 pages
Yajnaseni: The Story of Draupadi
Pratibha Ray · 402 pages
Epistolary novel about Draupadī, Hindu mythological character from the Mahābhārata.
The Henna Artist (First Time Trade)
Alka Joshi · 368 pages
Kim
Rudyard Kipling · 345 pages
Kim is Rudyard Kipling's story of an orphan born in colonial India and torn between love for his native India and the demands of Imperial loyalty to his Irish-English heritage and to the British Secret Service. Long recognized as Kipling's finest work, Kim was a key factor in his winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.
The Raj Quartet
Paul Scott · 1,032 pages
Story of the rape of young English girl in India, 1942, and, figuratively, the rape of a people's sensibilities due in great measure to the color of their skins.
Gaban
Munshi Premchand, muNshii premcNd · 272 pages
The Razor's Edge
W. Somerset Maugham · 314 pages
This novel, supposedly based on the life of an acquaintance of Maugham, follows the fortunes of an American pilot who, traumatized by war, rejects his former conventional life to search for a more meaningful existence. After studying in Paris for two years he decides to travel, taking various menial jobs. Although being influenced by some of the people he meets it is not until he reaches India tha
The Great Indian Novel
Shashi Tharoor · 423 pages
Writing in English, Shasi Tharoor has produced a stunning novel that is at once ambitious, daring, boldly satirical, and outrageously funny. The two structural pillars of his astonishing work are the national epic, the *Mahabharata,* and the Indian struggle in this century for independence from Great Britain.
Toba Tek Singh: Stories
Saadat Hasan Manto · 149 pages
Babyji
Abha Dawesar · 356 pages
Sexy, surprising, and subversively wise, Babyji is the story of Anamika Sharma, a spirited student growing up in Delhi. At school she is an ace at quantum physics. At home she sneaks off to her parents’ scooter garage to read the Kamasutra. Before long she has seduced an elegant older divorcée and the family servant, and has caught the eye of a classmate coveted by all the boys. With the world
The Girl in the Garden
Kamala Nair · 305 pages
When Rakhee Singh is ten years old, her mother takes her from their Minnesota home to visit relatives in India. There she discovers a family secret that will haunt her. Only as a woman on the verge of marriage does Rakhee find the strength to confront the events of that summer and face the price of secrets.
What the Body Remembers
Shauna Singh Baldwin · 515 pages
The Color Purple
Alice Walker · 274 pages
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000–2009 at number seventeenth because of the sometimes explicit content, particula
The River
Rumer Godden · 176 pages
A novella about the coming of age of a little English girl in colonial India. She and her baby brother are the dreamers in a large family, and share both the joys of childhood as well as its terrible tragedies. An utterly absorbing, moving and joyous story by a great storyteller
The Private Life of Mrs. Sharma
Ratika Kapur · 185 pages
Renuka Sharma is a dutiful wife, mother, and daughter-in-law holding the fort in a modest rental in Delhi while her husband tries to rack up savings in Dubai. Working as a receptionist and committed to finding a place for her family in the New Indian Dream of air-conditioned malls and high paid jobs at multi-nationals, life is going as planned until the day she strikes up a conversation with an un