Indian Fiction
Glass Palace
$24.99 (Paperback book / Flamingo )
The acclaimed author of The Calcutta Chromosome and The Shadow Lines has burst out on to the big stage with a major saga on that hidden country, Burma.
Rajkumar is only another boy helping on a market stall in the dusty ... More »
The God Of Small Things
$24.99 (Paperback book / Flamingo )
The God of Small Things explores the tragic fate of a high-caste family in a small village in India. A compelling story which marries the deepest, smallest personal emotions with an epic narrative. Winner Booker Prize 19... More »
Passage to India
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real India', they seek the gu... More »
Animal's People
$21.95 (Paperback book / Pocket Books )
'I used to be human once. So I'm told. I don't remember it myself, but people who knew me when I was small say I walked on two feet just like a human being...' Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, th... More »
Interpreter Of Maladies
$24.99 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise.
A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they stru... More »
The Inheritance Of Loss
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
At the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, lives an embittered old judge who wants nothing more than to retire in peace. But with the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, and his cook's son trying to stay... More »
Painter Of Signs
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
In this wry, funny, bittersweet story, love gets in the way of progress when Raman, a sign painter, meets the thrillingly independent Daisy, who wishes to bring birth control to the city of Malgudi. More »
Fine Balance
$24.95 (Paperback book / Faber & Faber )
In mid-1970s urban India - a chaos of wretchedness on the streets and slogans in the offices - a chain of circumstances tosses four varied individuals together in one small flat. Stubbornly independent Dina, widowed earl... More »
Satanic Verses
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's THE SATANIC VERSES, which earned its author a death sentence. Furor aside, it is a marvelously erudite study of good and evil, a feast of languag... More »
House For Mr Biswas
$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
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Red Earth And Pouring Rain
$22.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
The gods of poetry and death descend on a house in India to vie for the soul of a wounded monkey. A bargain is struck: the monkey must tell a story, and if he can keep his audience entertained, he shall live. The result ... More »
A Suitable Boy
$29.99 (Paperback book / Phoenix House )
Vikram Seth's novel is at its core a love story, a tale of Lata - and her mother's attempts to find a suitable boy, through love or through exacting maternal appraisal. Set in post-Independence India and involving the li... More »
Home And The World
$17.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
When Bimala's husband, Nikhil – a wealthy yet enlightened and charitable landowner of a Bengali estate – encourages her to emerge from the traditional female seclusion of purdah, he introduces her to his old friend Sandi... More »