Books set all or part in India
India
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel
by Shubnum Khan
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Jan 2025
"A dark and heady dream of a book" (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous
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Loot: A Novel
by Tania James
Hardcover: Jun 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty ...
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Victory City: A Novel
by Salman Rushdie
Hardcover: Feb 2023
Paperback: Jan 2024
The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries—from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize–winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie.
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The Bandit Queens: A Novel
by Parini Shroff
Hardcover: Jan 2023
Paperback: Jan 2024
A young Indian woman finds the false rumors that she killed her husband surprisingly useful—until other women in the village start asking for her help getting rid of their own husbands—in this razor-sharp debut.
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Age of Vice: A Novel
by Deepti Kapoor
Hardcover: Jan 2023
Paperback: Jan 2024
This is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill.
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Moth: A Novel
by Melody Razak
Hardcover: Aug 2022
Paperback: Aug 2023
Melody Razak makes her literary debut with this internationally-acclaimed saga of one Indian family's trials through the tumultuous partition - the 1947 split of Pakistan from India - exploring its impact on women, what it means to be "othered" in ...
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The Earthspinner: A Novel
by Anuradha Roy
Hardcover: Jul 2022
Paperback: Jul 2023
From the critically acclaimed, Booker Prize-nominated author of Sleeping on Jupiter and All the Lives We Never Lived, an incisive and moving novel about the struggle for creative achievement in a world consumed by growing fanaticism and political ...
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Seeking Fortune Elsewhere
by Sindya Bhanoo
Hardcover: Mar 2022
Paperback: May 2023
These intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women's lives and ask how women both claim and surrender power - a stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winner.
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The Covenant of Water
by Abraham Verghese
Hardcover: May 2023
Winner: BookBrowse Fiction Award 2023
From the New York Times–bestselling author of Cutting for Stone comes a stunning and magisterial epic of love, faith, and medicine, set in Kerala, South India, and following three generations of a family ...
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Honor
by Thrity Umrigar
Hardcover: Jan 2022
Paperback: Oct 2022
A Reese's Book Club Pick! In this riveting and immersive novel, bestselling author Thrity Umrigar tells the story of two couples and the sometimes dangerous and heartbreaking challenges of love across a cultural divide.
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Blue Sky Kingdom: An Epic Family Journey to the Heart of the Himalaya
by Bruce Kirkby
Hardcover: Oct 2020
Paperback: Jul 2022
A warm and unforgettable portrait of a family letting go of the known world to encounter an unfamiliar one filled with rich possibilities and new understandings.
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The Secret Keeper of Jaipur: The Jaipur Trilogy #2
by Alka Joshi
Hardcover: Jun 2021
Paperback: Jun 2022
In New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi's intriguing new novel, henna artist Lakshmi arranges for her protégé, Malik, to intern at the Jaipur Palace in this tale rich in character, atmosphere, and lavish storytelling.
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