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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorEast, 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
Time Stops at Shamli and Other Stories
Ruskin Bond · 180 pages
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
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
Arranged Marriage: Stories
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 320 pages
The Japanese Wife
Kunal Basu · 202 pages
Like 'The Japanese Wife', the other stories in this collection are also about residents and non-residents. In 'Grateful Ganga', an American rock queen shares her love tunes with a Punjabi businessman even as she mourns her dead husband; in 'Snakecharmer', a retired Israeli American professor arrives in India with the intention of committing suicide, only to be saved by a snakecharmer's daughter. F
Interpreter 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,
Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories
R.K. Narayan · 208 pages
Pinjar: The Skeleton and Other Stories
Amrita Pritam · 240 pages
A River Sutra
Gita Mehta · 288 pages
A sequence of delicate, tragic stories by the bestselling author of Raj evokes the profound presence of tradition and desire. A retired bureaucrat has escaped the world to spend his twilight years running a guest-house on the banks of the country's holiest river, the Narmada. But he has chosen the wrong place for peace and quiet: too many lives converge here and he meets a series of unusual charac
The Artist of Disappearance
Anita Desai · 156 pages
"Written late in Anita Desai's illustrious career, these three novellas ruminate on art and memory, illusion and disillusion, and the sharp divide between life's expectations and dreams and its realities. Set in India in the not too distant past, the stories' diverse surroundings and dramas frame universal themes, which illuminate the ways in which various aspects of the Indian culture can nourish
Karma and Other Stories
Rishi Reddi · 240 pages
Set primarily in Boston and its suburbs, Reddi's debut focuses on individuals and families struggling to reconcile their Indian diaspora backgrounds with American life, while attempting to preserve their small, at times contentious ethnic communities. Often generational differences are the root of conflicti̮n "Bangles," a successful American doctor tries to fulfill his duty by bringing his newly w
The Man Who Would Be King and Other Stories
Rudyard Kipling · 199 pages
The Man Who Would be King' is the story of two British vagabonds who set off to establish a small kingdom among primitive tribesmen in Afghanistan. Only one of the men returns, and his condition is so bad that the newspaperman-narrator barely recognizes him.This collection brings together seventeen of Kipling's early stories, written between 1885 and 1888, when Kipling was working as a journalist
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."