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Jeet Thayil
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles were suppressed, reduced or erased in the Gospels. ‘Dazzling, smouldering .
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A tale of vice and passion set against a backdrop of late 1970’s Bombay finds a New Yorker becoming entranced with the underworld culture of an opium den and brothel…
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Thayil's poems refract his vibrant, unique and far-flung life experiences through the prism of his tremendous lyric intellect.
Covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. This anthology represents not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and…
From the Booker-shortlisted author: one man’s whirlwind weekend of self-destructive grief.
The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or damnation - or perhaps both.
Follows the unforgettable character Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or damnation - or perhaps both. This novel paints a hallucinatory portrait of an ambiguous soul: a self-destructive figure…
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The narrator in these poems abandons the sectarian histories of 1990’s Bombay for the relative clam of New York, only to find himself a witness to September the 11th, 2001…
