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  Shantaram

  by Gregory David Roberts

  "It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured." So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaram is narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in... (more)
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  Maximum City

  Bombay Lost and Found

  by Suketu Mehta

  A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider’s view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse; opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood; and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better... (more)
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  Secret Daughter

  by Shilpi Somaya Gowda

  A stunning debut novel that explores the emotional terrain of motherhood, loss, identity and culture, witnessed through the lives of two families, one Indian, one American, and the daughter who indelibly binds them. Somer's life is everything she imagined it would be — she's newly married and has started her career as a physician in San Francisco — until she makes the devastating discovery she never will... (more)
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  Sacred Games

  by Vikram Chandra

  Seven years in the making, Sacred Games is an epic of exceptional richness and power. Vikram Chandra's novel draws the reader deep into the life of Inspector Sartaj Singh—and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India. Sartaj, one of the very few Sikhs on the Mumbai police force, is used to being identified by his turban, beard and the sharp cut of his trousers. But... (more)
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  The Blue Notebook

  by James Levine

  Dear Reader: Every now and then, we come across a novel that moves us like no other, that seems like a miracle of the imagination, and that haunts us long after the book is closed. James Levine’s The Blue Notebook is that kind of book. It is the story of Batuk, an Indian girl who is taken to Mumbai from the countryside and sold into prostitution by her father; the blue notebook is her diary, in which she recalls... (more)
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  Family Matters

  by Rohinton Mistry

  Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and Jal, have a spacious apartment (in the inaptly named Chateau Felicity), but... (more)
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  Last Man in Tower

  by Aravind Adiga

  Aravind Adiga’s first novel since his Man Booker Prize–winning best seller The White Tiger (“Amazing . . . One of the most powerful books I’ve read in decades” —Deirdre Donahue, USA Today): a stunning, darkly comic story of greed and murder that lays bare the teeming metropolis of Mumbai. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah’s offer to buy out the residents of Vishram Society—a formerly respectable, now... (more)
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  The Hundred-Foot Journey

  by Richard C. Morais

  "The Hundred-Foot Journey" is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journey first to London and then across Europe, before they ultimately open a restaurant opposite a famous chef, Madame Mallory, in the remote French village of Lumiere. A culinary war ensues, pitting Hassan's Mumbai - toughened father against the imperious Michelin-starred... (more)
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  The Space Between Us

  by Thrity N. Umrigar

  Poignant, evocative, and unforgettable, The Space Between Us is an intimate portrait of a distant yet familiar world. Set in modern-day India, it is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife whose opulent surroundings hide the shame and disappointment of her abusive marriage, and Bhima, a stoic illiterate hardened by a life of despair and loss, who... (more)
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  Boys Without Names

  by Kashmira Sheth

  Boys Without Names is not a heartbreaking story, even if there are moments that break the heart. Instead, it is a story about growing up, about learning and relearning the meaning of family. This is one of the best books I've read this year. (Jacqueline Woodson, author of the Newbery Honor book After Tupac and D Foster ) "Kashmira Sheth gives a name to the pernicious practice of child bondage in her unforgettable... (more)
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  Dork: The Incredible Adventures of Robin Einstein Varghese

  by Sidin Vadukut

  In April 2006 Robin Einstein Varghese, a stupendously naïve but academically gifted young man (he was ranked 41st in his class), graduates from one of India s best business schools with a Day-Zero job at the Mumbai office of Dufresne Partners, a mediocre mid-market management consulting firm largely run by complete morons. Varghese finds that he fits into the culture remarkably well. Or does he? Through a... (more)
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  What Good Is God?

  In Search of a Faith That Matters

  by Philip Yancey

  Journalist and spiritual seeker Philip Yancey has always struggled with the most basic questions of the Christian faith. The question he tackles in WHAT GOOD IS GOD? concerns the practical value of belief in God. His search for the answer to this question took him to some amazing settings around the world: Mumbai, India when the firing started during the terrorist attacks; at the motel where Martin Luther King... (more)
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  A Walk Across the Sun

  by Corban Addison

  Corban Addison leads readers on a chilling, eye-opening journey into Mumbai's seedy underworld--and the nightmare of two orphaned girls swept into the international sex trade.   When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. With almost everyone they know suddenly erased from the face of the earth, the girls set... (more)
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  East of the Sun

  by Julia Gregson

  As the Kaisar-i-Hind weighs anchor for Bombay in the autumn of 1928, its passengers ponder their fate in a distant land. They are part of the "Fishing Fleet" -- the name given to the legions of Englishwomen who sail to India each year in search of husbands, heedless of the life that awaits them. The inexperienced chaperone Viva Holloway has been entrusted to watch over three unsettling charges. There's Rose, as... (more)
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  My Friend Sancho

  by Amit Varma

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  Jana Matinova: Book 2

  Dark Dreams

  by Michael Genelin

  Praise for Michael Genelin: “Plenty of misdirection and suspense. . . . In the end, we must acknowledge that we have been held spellbound by a master storyteller.”— Library Journal (starred review) Prudent Jana and impetuous Sofia were best friends when they were schoolmates. One day Sofia approached a man in a car when she shouldn’t have and ended up being raped by a nefarious Communist Party bigwig. Jana... (more)
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  Cappuccino Dusk

  by Kankana Basu

  Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2007 A wacky poetry-spouting boy, Mustafa, walks into the house of the argumentative Banerjees and turns life upside down for the four eccentric siblings Som, Bonny, Sid and Mishti and their absent-minded mother, Ira. Soon theyre joined by a bumbling Shaivite cousin, a conservative Brahmin grandmother, a shy nature-loving cartoonist, a bubbly journalist, and a lonely... (more)
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  Shantaram: A Novel

  by Gregory David Roberts

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  Sacred Games [SACRED GAMES]

  by Vikram(Author) Chandra

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  Ravan and Eddie

  by K. Nagarkar