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Recommended adult books (5)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. If you are into adult here are some adult books from India for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.

1.

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
Anappara creates an endearing and highly engaging narrator to navigate us through the dark underbelly of modern India' Observer We children are not just stories. We live. Come and see. Nine-year-old Jai watches too many reality cop shows, thinks he's smarter than his friend Pari (even though she always gets top marks) and considers himself to be a better boss than Faiz (even though Faiz is the one with a job). When a boy at school goes missing, Jai decides to use the crime-solving skills he has picked up from episodes of Police Patrol to find him. With Pari and Faiz by his side, Jai ventures i... continue

2.

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur EN

Rating: 4 (5 votes)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
Collection of poetry.

3.

The Parcel by Anosh Irani EN

0 Ratings
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
The Parcel is about a transgender sex worker, Madhu, in the red-light district of Bombay who is given an unexpected, harrowing task. Now, at forty, Madhu has moved away from prostitution, her trade since her teens, and taken up begging to support the leader of the hijras, Gurumai. One day Madhu receives a call from Padma Madam, the most-feared brothel owner in the district: a 'parcel' has arrived - a ten-year-old girl from the provinces, betrayed and sold by her aunt - and Madhu needs to prepare it for her fate.

4.

The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake. Desperate to assuage her deep anguish, she decides to go to India to uncover answers to her family's past.