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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorBombay Stories
Saadat Hasan Manto · 288 pages
This sometimes shocking collection of short stories about life in mid-20th-century Bombay captures the city's seedy underbelly of prostitutes, pimps and gangsters as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame.
The Song of Kahunsha
Anosh Irani · 320 pages
An orphanage resident runs away to search for his father and teams up with a brother and sister who beg on the streets of Bombay in order to provde for their mother.
Last Man in Tower
Aravind Adiga · 421 pages
Every building tells a story, but in the jungles of Mumbai, one building - and one man- stand on the borderline between India's past and its future. Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society - and you will be told that it has been pucca for some fifty years despite its location under the flight path and border of slums. But Bombay has changed
Chowringhee
Sankar · 482 pages
Through the prism of a lowly hotel clerk's eyes, Sankar presents a microcosm of life in the city with extraordinary candor.
Narcopolis
Jeet Thayil · 292 pages
Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick and potent. A beautiful young woman leans to hold a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her dark eyes. Around her, men sprawl and mutter in the gloom, each one drifting with his own tide. Here, people say that you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. Outside, stray dogs lope in packs. Street vendors hu
The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi · 349 pages
The Death of Vishnu
Manil Suri · 310 pages
"At the opening of this novel, Vishnu, the resident odd-job man, lies dying on the staircase he inhabits, while his neighbors the Pathaks and the Asranis squabble over who will pay for an ambulance. As the action spirals up through the floors of their building, the dramas of the residents' lives unfold: Mr. Jalal's obsessive search for higher meaning; Vinod Taneja's longing for the wife he has los
Arranged Marriage: Stories
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni · 320 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
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
Kuttiedathi and Other Stories
M.T. Vasudevan Nair · 192 pages
Selected stories from the Malayalam author's works.
The Space Between Us
Thrity Umrigar · 328 pages
Each morning, Bhima, a domestic servant in contemporary Bombay, leaves her own small shanty in the slums to tend to another woman's house. In Sera Dubash's home, Bhima scrubs the floors of a house in which she remains an outsider. She cleans furniture she is not permitted to sit on. She washes glasses from which she is not allowed to drink. Yet despite being separated from each other by blood and
A Bad Character
Deepti Kapoor · 240 pages
My boyfriend died when I was twenty-one. His body was left lying broken in the highway out of Delhi while the sun rose in the desert to the east. I wasn't there, I never saw it. But plenty of others saw, in the trucks that passed by without stopping, and from the roadside dhaba where he'd been drinking all night. Then they wrote about him in the paper. Twelve lines buried in the middle pages, one
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,
Such a Long Journey
Rohinton Mistry · 339 pages
Gustad Noble finds his family life and professional life unravelling during 1971, as Bombay teams with national tensions on the international scene.
Under the Banyan Tree and Other Stories
R.K. Narayan · 208 pages