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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Gift of a Cow: A Translation from the Hindi Novel
Munshi Premchand
Jennie Gerhardt
Theodore Dreiser · 370 pages
Dreiser's second novel and his own personal favorite features an impoverished heroine who, in simply trying to make her way in the world, inadvertently defies a host of social conventions.
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
A great modern classic of Negative Utopia, with chilling implications for our own time.
The house by the medlar tree
Giovanni Verga · 272 pages
Train to Pakistan
Khushwant Singh · 206 pages
“In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. On
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
Nectar in a Sieve
Kamala Markandaya · 208 pages
The Sari Shop
Rupa Bajwa · 240 pages
Young Ramchand rushes through the dusty streets of Amritsar, once again late for work. Chastised by his boss, he takes his place among the cottons and silks of the sari shop, selling yards of cloth to the wealthy and fashionable women of the town. Offered a glimpse of a more opulent world, Ramchand is seduced by the idea that he might somehow better himself. But making dreams real will come at a p
Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence · 447 pages
Sons and Lovers, a story of working-class England, is D. H. Lawrence’s third novel. It went through various drafts, and was titled “Paul Morel” until the final draft, before being published and met with an indifferent reaction from contemporary critics. Modern critics now consider it to be D. H. Lawrence’s masterpiece, with the Modern Library placing it ninth in its “100 Best English-Language Nove
Chokher Bali
Rabindranath Tagore, Radha Chakravarty · 298 pages
Pather panchali: Song of the road
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay · 316 pages
The Awakening
Kate Chopin · 190 pages
The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century, the plot centers on Edna Pontellier and her struggle between her increasingly unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century American South. It is one of the earliest American novels that
Village By The Sea
Anita Desai · 260 pages
When their family falls on hard times, thirteen-year-old Lila and her twelve-year-old brother, Hari, try desperately to keep their home intact--an almost impossible task until Hari gets a chance to go to Bombay and returns with some positive plans for the future.
Untouchable
Mulk Raj Anand · 160 pages
With precision, vitality, and a fury that earned him praise as India's Charles Dickens, Mulk Raj Anand recreates in" Untouchable" what it was like to live on the fringes of society in pre-independence India. Bakha, an attractive, proud, and strong young man, is also an Untouchable, the lowest of the low in India's caste system. A sweeper and a toilet-cleaner, he must warn others on the street of h
A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry · 713 pages
A Fine Balance is Rohinton Mistry's eagerly awaited second novel and follows his critically acclaimed Such a Long Journey, the book that won three prestigious literary awards in 1991. Set in India in the mid-1970s, A Fine Balance is a richly textured novel which sweeps the reader up into its special world. Large in scope, the narrative focuses on four unlikely people who come together in a flat
The Pearl
John Steinbeck · 118 pages
Based on a Mexican folktale, this is the story of a great pearl found by a poor fisherman, the sorrow it brought to his family, and how it was lost again.
Liza of Lambeth
W. Somerset Maugham · 132 pages
Presents the story about a young, working girl in a poor London neighborhood. Her sad story is the story of poverty everywhere.
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and Other Tales of New York
Stephen Crane · 239 pages
The Sleeping Dictionary
Sujata Massey · 496 pages
Kamala, a young peasant woman from West Bengal, is drawn into a forbidden romance in 1930s Calcutta and is caught between the country's independence movement and the British colonial society in which she lives.
Shipwrecks
Akira Yoshimura · 180 pages
Summer Crossing
Truman Capote · 155 pages
Grady McNeil comes from a very privileged family but she wants more, her parents are very conventional. Grady has an affair with a Jewish parking attendant, if her parents knew they would be horrified. She has to make a decision about her future which will change her life.