Results for: books tagged ‘India’
The Raj at Table: David Burton
While the British were in India they developed a curious cuisine all of their own. As they made their mark on their host culture, the formidable memsahib - or English ... More
Indian Ink: Tom Stoppard
Flora Crewe, a young poet travelling India in 1930, has her portrait painted by a local artist. More than fifty years later, the artist's son visits Flora's sister in London ... More
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard: Kiran Desai
The delightful story of Sampath Chawla, bored post-office clerk and dreamer, who takes to the branches of a secluded guava tree in search of the contemplative life - only to ... More
An Obedient Father: Akhil Sharma
Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaughter. Bumbling, ironical, sad, Ram is ... More
A Black Englishman: Carolyn Slaughter
India, 1920: exotic, glamorous and wrenching away from Britain’s colonial grip, only to be thrown into religious violence and terrorism. Isabel, a young woman in search of herself and in ... More
Tales from Firozsha Baag: Rohinton Mistry
Here is a wonderful introduction to the residents of Firozsha Baag, an apartment complex in Bombay. We enter the daily routine and rhythm of their lives, and by the time ... More
Family Matters: Rohinton Mistry
Nariman Vakeel, a seventy-nine-year-old Parsi widower, beset by Parkinson's disease and haunted by memories of the past, lives in a once-elegant apartment with his two middle-aged stepchildren. When his condition ... More
A Fine Balance: Rohinton Mistry
Set in mid-1970s India, A Fine Balance is a subtle and compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the ... More
Ramayana: David Farr
Exiled from the serene palaces of their homeland and plunged into the deep forest of southern India, the passionate love of Rama and Sita is put to the test as ... More
Love and Longing in Bombay: Vikram Chandra
Set in contemporary India, Love and Longing in Bombay confirms Vikram Chandra as one of today's most exciting young writers. In five haunting tales he paints a remarkable picture of ... More
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