Books set in India (28)


1.
Bengal Nights

Bengal Nights : A Novel by Mircea Eliade EN

Rating: 4     5 Votes
Country: Europe / Romania flag Romania
Description:
A semi-autobiographical romance between a French engineer and the daughter of a Hindu family with which he stayed in India. A case of East meets West with all the joys and woes that such encounters bring. For her version of the story see her novel, It Does Not Die.
Recommended: 03 Dec 2022

2.
Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? by Anita Rau Badami EN

Rating: 3.6     7 Votes
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
LONGLIST 2008 - IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Anita Rau Badami's acclaimed novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? chronicles the stories of three women, linked in love and tragedy, over a span of fifty years, sweeping from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air India flight 182 off the coast of Ireland in 1985. Alive with Badami's warmth and humanity, and brimming with the daily sights and sounds of both Canada and India, this novel brilliantly conveys the tumultuous effects of the past on new immigrants, and the ways in which memory and myth, the personal and the po... continue

3.
DAURA : A Novel

DAURA : A Novel by ANUKRTI. UPADHYAY EN

Rating: 5     1 Vote
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
A young District Collector is posted to one of the furthest outposts of rural Rajasthan. As he becomes more and more involved with the lives and troubles of the common people in his district, he finds himself sucked deeper and deeper into the dark heart of the desert.

4.

Die Mauern von Delhi by Uday Prakash DE

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Asia / India flag India
Genre
Recommended: 02 Sep 2023

5.
Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

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
Recommended: 02 Jul 2023

6.
Immortals of Meluha

Immortals of Meluha by Amish Tripathi EN

Rating: 5     1 Vote
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
This is the first book in a trilogy on Shiva, the simple man whose karma re-cast his as our Mahadev, the God of Gods.

7.
Kim

Kim by Rudyard Kipling, Edward W. Said EN

Rating: 4     1 Vote
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
Kim, an Irish orphan, accompanies a holy man on his journey throughout India and his quest for a mystical river.
Recommended: 11 Jun 2023

8.
Life of Pi

Life of Pi by Yann Martel EN

Rating: 5     2 Votes
Country: Europe / Spain flag Spain
Description:
Yann Martel's beloved Life of Pi-- recently made into a stunning 3D film directed by Ang Lee-- is now available in a deluxe pocket edition with leatherette cover.

9.
Midnight's Children

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie EN

Rating: 2     1 Vote
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
The iconic masterpiece of India that introduced the world to “a glittering novelist—one with startling imaginative and intellectual resources, a master of perpetual storytelling” (The New Yorker) WINNER OF THE BEST OF THE BOOKERS • SOON TO BE A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time • The fortieth anniversary edition, featuring a new introduction by the author Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the very moment of India’s independence. Greeted by fireworks displays, cheering crowds, and Prime Minister Nehr... continue

10.
Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur EN

Rating: 4     4 Votes
Country: Asia / India flag India
Description:
Collection of poetry.
Recommended: 24 Feb 2023


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