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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Jungle Books
Rudyard Kipling · 334 pages
Among the best loved of all children's classics, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book is set among a community of animals in the jungles of India, where Kipling was born and grew up. Three of the stories feature the adventures of an abandoned "man cub," a boy named Mowgli, who is raised by wolves in the jungle. Other well-known stories in the collection include "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi," the tale of a heroi
Manto: Selected Stories
Saadat Hasan Manto · 309 pages
This collection brings together some of Manto's finest stories, ranging from his chilling recounting of the horrors of Partition to his portrayal of the underworld. Writing with great feeling and empathy about the fallen and the rejects of society, Manto the supreme humanist shows how the essential goodness of people does not die even in the face of unimaginable suffering. Powerful and deeply movi
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
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.
One Grain Of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale
Demi
A reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains of rice when a selfish raja is outwitted by a clever village girl.
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."
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,