Results for: books tagged ‘Asian Interest’
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
38 Bahadurabad: Zeeba Sadiq
A unique blend of autobiography and fiction, 38 Bahadurabad tells the story of a young girl growing up in Pakistan in the late 1960s, as the narrator recalls the motley ... More
A Married Woman: Manju Kapur
Astha has everything an educated, middle-class Delhi woman could ask for - children, a dutiful loving husband, and comfortable surroundings. So why should she be consumed with a sense of ... More
Nanjing 1937: Ye Zhaoyan
Set on the eve of the Rape of Nanjing - when Japanese troops invaded this historical capital city, massacred hundreds of thousands, and committed thousands of rapes - Nanjing 1937 ... More
Bunker 13: Aniruddha Bahal
Minty Mehta (aka MM) likes to play dangerously - he is making a documentary about the Indian army's conflict with the Pakistanis but drug-fuelled parachute jumping with Major Rodrigues is ... More
Maps for Lost Lovers: Nadeem Aslam
In an unnamed town Jugnu and his lover Chanda have disappeared. Rumours abound in the close-knit Pakistani community, and then on a snow-covered January morning Chanda's brothers are arrested for ... More
Season of the Rainbirds: Nadeem Aslam
The highly acclaimed and Betty Trask Award-winning debut from the author of Maps for Lost Lovers.A sack of letters lost in a train crash nineteen years previously has mysteriously reappeared, ... 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
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