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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMidnight's Children
Salman Rushdie · 548 pages
The 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.
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.
What the Body Remembers
Shauna Singh Baldwin · 515 pages
Sea of Poppies
Amitav Ghosh · 521 pages
At the heart of this epic saga, set just before the Opium Wars, is an old slave ship The Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean; its crew a motley array of sailors, stowaways, and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, the ship boasts a diverse cast of Indians, coolies, and Westerners, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed village woman, from a mulatto American to an evang
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 Far Pavilions
M.M. Kaye · 960 pages
The Far Pavilions is the story of an English man - Ashton Pelham-Martyn - brought up as a Hindu. It is the story of his passionate, but dangerous love for Juli, an Indian princess. It is the story of divided loyalties, of friendship that endures till death, of high adventure and of the clash between East and West. To the burning plains and snow-capped mountains of this great, humming continent,
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy · 336 pages
The God of Small Things is the debut novel of Indian writer Arundhati Roy. It is a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who should be loved, and how. And how much." The book explores how the small things affect people's behavior and their lives. The book also reflects its irony against casteism, which is a major discri
A Passage to India
E.M. Forster · 322 pages
When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are ex
Heat and Dust
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala · 181 pages
Set in India, HEAT AND DUST is the story of Olivia, a beautiful, spoiled, bored English colonial wife in the 1920s who is drawn inexorably into the spell of the Nawab, a minor Indian prince deeply involved in plots and intrigues. Olivia outrages the tiny, suffocating town where her husband is a civil servant by eloping with the captivating Nawab. It is also the story of Olivia's step-granddaughter
Clear Light of Day
Anita Desai · 183 pages
Set in India's Old Delhi, CLEAR LIGHT OF DAY is Anita Desai's tender, warm, and compassionate novel about family scars, the ability to forgive and forget, and the trials and tribulations of familial love. At the novel's heart are the moving relationships between the members of the Das family, who have grown apart from each other. Bimla is a dissatisfied but ambitious teacher at a women's college w
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
Burnt Shadows
Kamila Shamsie · 384 pages
A powerful, sweeping epic crossing generations, cultures and continentsIn a prison cell in the US, a man stands trembling, naked, fearfully waiting to be shipped to Guantanamo Bay. How did it come to this? he wonders...August 9th, 1945, Nagasaki. Hiroko Tanaka steps out onto her veranda, taking in the view of the terraced slopes leading up to the sky. Wrapped in a kimono with three black cranes sw
The Last Kashmiri Rose
Barbara Cleverly · 298 pages
"It is 1922, in Panikhat, located on the plains fifty miles from Calcutta. In March of each of the past five years the wife of a cavalry officer in the Bengal Greys has met with a violent and terrifying death. One died in a fire, another by a cobra bite, the third from a fall, and the fourth victim drowned. Of course, they all might have been accidents, while the death of Captain Somersham's prett
East of the Sun
Julia Gregson · 602 pages
Autumn 1928. The Kaiser-i-Hind is en route to Bombay. In cabin D38, Viva Holloway, and inexperienced chaperone, feels as though she?s made a mistake. Her advert in The Lady had resulted in an assignment to escort three young charges to India. And overshadowing all three is the dangerously malevolent presence of Guy Glover. But nothing frightens Viva as much as her real reasons for the voyage.
A Singular Hostage
Thalassa Ali · 416 pages
Stifled by Victorian England, Mariana Givens is sent to India in 1838 to find a husband, but she lands in an India in political turmoil, and becomes the guardian of Saboor, an orphan felt by a dying maharajah to have magical gifts.
Difficult Daughters
Manju Kapur · 267 pages
"Set around the time of Partition, Difficult Daughters is the story of a woman torn between family duty, the desire for education, and illicit love. Virmati, a young woman born in Amritsar into an austere and high-minded household, falls in love with a neighbour, the Professor - a man who is already married. That the Professor eventually marries Virmati, installs her in his home (along-side his fu