Read the World: India

Books by authors from India or set in/about India.

Updated February 19, 2024
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A fine balance
Mistry, Rohinton, 1952-
Paper Book
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is 1975. The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency,...
Midnight's children
Rushdie, Salman.
Paper Book
"BEST OF THE BOOKER" AWARD WINNER * This towering classic of international literature is at once a riveting family saga and an astonishing evocation of a vast land and its people. "One of the most important books to come out of the English-speaking world in this generation." -...
The moor's last sigh
Rushdie, Salman
Paper Book
'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him...

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