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by Deepti Kapoor
Published Jan 2024
Read ReviewsThis is the age of vice, where money, pleasure, and power are everything, and the family ties that bind can also kill.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
by Wole Soyinka
Published Aug 2022
Read ReviewsFrom the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our fiercest political activists, a fictional meditation on power and greed - at once a literary hoot, a whodunit, and a scathing indictment of political and social corruption.
by Chang-rae Lee
Published Feb 2022
Read ReviewsFrom the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure – and about the human capacities for pleasure, pain, and connection.
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line
by Deepa Anappara
Published May 2021
Read ReviewsIn this transporting debut novel, three friends venture into the most dangerous corners of a sprawling Indian city to find their missing classmate.
by Lysley Tenorio
Published Apr 2021
Read ReviewsFrom award-winning author Lysley Tenorio, comes a big hearted debut novel following an undocumented Filipino son as he navigates his relationship with his mother, an uncertain future, and the place he calls home.
by Tarun J. Tejpal
Published Aug 2013
Read ReviewsPart thriller and part erotic romance, full of dark humor and knife-edged suspense, The Story of My Assassins is an awesome adventure into the heart of today's India.
by Thrity Umrigar
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsFilled with satisfyingly real characters and glowing with local color, The Weight of Heaven is a rare glimpse of a family and a country struggling under pressures beyond their control. Umrigar illuminates how slowly we recover from unforgettable loss, how easily good intentions can turn evil, and how far a person will go to build a new world for ...
by Indra Sinha
Published Mar 2009
Read ReviewsProfane, piercingly honest, and scathingly funny, Animal's People is the stunning tale of an unforgettable character: Animal, a young man whose back was twisted beyond repair in an industrial accident. It is a dark world, shot through with flashes of joy and lunacy.
by Vikram Chandra
Published Jan 2008
Read ReviewsVikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. It is is a story of friendship and betrayal, of terrible violence, of an astonishing modern city and its dark side.
by John Burdett
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsFrom the author of Bangkok 8, a head-spinning new novel that puts us back in the company of the inimitable Royal Thai Police detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep.
by Manil Suri
Published Jan 2002
Read ReviewsSuffused with Hindu mythology, this story of one apartment building becomes a metaphor for the social and religious divisions of contemporary India. "Vibrantly alive, beautifully written, full of wonderfully rich and deeply human characters
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