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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorMidnight's Children
Salman Rushdie · 548 pages
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
I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale
Khushwant Singh · 243 pages
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
The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh · 560 pages
Set in Burma during the British invasion of 1885, this masterly novel by Amitav Ghosh tells the story of Rajkumar, a poor boy lifted on the tides of political and social chaos, who goes on to create an empire in the Burmese teak forest. When soldiers force the royal family out of the Glass Palace and into exile, Rajkumar befriends Dolly, a young woman in the court of the Burmese Queen, whose love
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.
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 Lowland
Jhumpa Lahiri · 406 pages
Brothers Subhash and Udayan Mitra pursue vastly different lives--Udayan in rebellion-torn Calcutta, Subhash in a quiet corner of America--until a shattering tragedy compels Subhash to return to India, where he endeavors to heal family wounds.
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.
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,
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
What the Body Remembers
Shauna Singh Baldwin · 515 pages
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.
A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth · 1,408 pages
The tale of Lata's and her mother's attempts to find a suitable boy, through love or through maternal appraisal. Set in post-independence India and involving the lives of four families, it is also an explanation of a whole continent faced with its first great General Election.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez · 422 pages
Tells the story of the Buendia family, set against the background of the evolution and eventual decadence of a small South American town.
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.
An Atlas of Impossible Longing
Anuradha Roy · 320 pages
"Roy's impressive American debut covers multiple generations of an Indian family from the turn of the 20th century to India's partition. Three distinct sections revolve around Amulya, who runs an herbal medicine and fragrance business; his mentally ill wife, Kananbala, who spies on the goings-on of her English neighbors from the room Amulya keeps her locked in; their sons, Kamal and Nirmal; their
Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder · 335 pages
When Laura Ingalls and her family leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin, they head west for the open prairie skies of Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the perfect spot for Pa to build them a new home. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. But just when they begin to
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
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese · 715 pages