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Fiction Books about India recommended by Rita Wilson
A Suitable Boy by Call Number: PR9499.3.S38 S83 1994Publication Date: 2005The story of four families centered around the search for a "suitable boy" for an arranged or love marriage while examining political issues in post-partition India.
The Story of My Assassins by Call Number: PR9499.4.T44 S76 2012Publication Date: 2012When a journalist learns that the police have captured five men on the way to assassinate him, he launches an investigation into the lives of each of the would-be killers.
Death of Vishnu A Novel by Call Number: PS3569.U725 D43 2001Publication Date: 2001Vishnu lies dying on the staircase he inhabits while his neighbors argue over who will pay for an ambulance. Suffused with Hindu mythology, this story of one apartment building becomes a metaphor for the social and religious divisions of contemporary India, and Vishnu's ascent of the staircase parallels the soul's progress through the various stages of existence.
The Lowland: A Novel by Call Number: PS3562.A316 L69 2013Publication Date: 2013Set in both India and America, a tale of two brothers bound by tragedy, a fiercely brilliant woman haunted by her past, a country torn by revolution, and a love that lasts long past death.
A Fine Balance: A Novel by Call Number: PR9199.3 .M494 F56 1997Publication Date: 1997"..you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair."
The White Tiger: A Novel by Call Number: PR9619.4.A35 W47 2008bPublication Date: 2008Balram is hired as a driver for his village's wealthiest man. From behind the wheel, he observes the rich and poor of India. This dark novel was the well-deserved winner of the 2008 Man Booker Prize.
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Such a Long Journey by Call Number: PR9199.3 .M494 S84 1992Publication Date: 1992A Bombay bank clerk, struggling to keep his family together, is drawn into political intrigue.
Bollywood Confidential by Call Number: PS3619.I5745 B65 2005Publication Date: 2005After seven years of slogging through film roles too embarrassing to mention, twenty-eight-year-old struggling L.A. actress Raveena Rai has finally been offered a lead!
The Groom to Have Been by Call Number: PS3601.L326 G76 2008Publication Date: 2008Nasr, a young man with a professional and social life in New York, prepares for the arranged marriage he hopes will appease his Canadian Indian Muslim family, but begins to have doubts that this will lead to true happiness.
The God of Small Things by Call Number: PR9499.3.R59 G63 1997 (JPL & DT)Publication Date: 1997Equal parts powerful family saga, forbidden love story, and piercing political drama, it is the story of an affluent Indian family forever changed by one fateful day in 1969.
The End of Imagination (essays) by Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2016> Cost of Living > The End of Imagination
> Power Politics > War Talk
> Public Power in the Age of Empire,
> An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Publication Date: 2017Each of its characters is indelibly, tenderly rendered. Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in and then rescued, patched together by acts of love--and by hope.
The Sari Shop by Call Number: PR9499.4 .B35 S37 2004Publication Date: 2004Ramchand works serving the sari shop's mostly upper-class clients when opportunity for advancement comes from an unlikely source.
Cracking India: A Novel by Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2006The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child who describes the brutal transition with chilling veracity. Previously published as: Ice-candy-man.
Also available in print: JPL PR9540.9.S53I34 2006
Train to Pakistan by Call Number: PR9499.3.S53 T73 2006Publication Date: 2007The trauma and tragedy of partition told through the stories of the characters.
Baumgartner's Bombay by Call Number: PR9499.3 .D465 B38 1989 (JPL & DT)Publication Date: 1990A man flees Nazi Germany -- and his Jewish heritage -- for India.
The Palace of Illusions by Call Number: PS3554.I86 P35 2008Publication Date: 2008Retelling of the Mahābhārata
Binding Vine by Call Number: PR9499.3.D474 B56 2001Publication Date: 2001After the death of her baby, Urmi's finds her own path difficult to endure. But through her grief, she is drawn into the lives of two unlikely women--a long-dead relative and a young girl in a coma.
That Long Silence by Call Number: PR9499.3.D474 T49 1988Publication Date: 1988Story of the wrongs suffered silently by Indian wives.
Arzee the Dwarf by Call Number: PR9499.4.C46 A79Publication Date: 2009Story of a doubly marginalized Arzee, a half Hindu half Muslim midget who works as a projectionist in a decrepit Bombay cinema theatre called Noor.
Animal's People by Call Number: PR9499.4.S56 A55 2008Publication Date: 2009Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Animal's People is by turns a profane, funny, and honest tale of a boy badly damaged by the poisons released during a chemical plant leak in Bhopal, India in 1984.
Unaccustomed Earth by Call Number: PS3562.A316 U53 2008Publication Date: 2008From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author comes eight dazzling stories that take readers from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they explore the secrets at the heart of family life.
Vintage Book of Indian Writing. 1947-1997 by Call Number: PR9494.9 .V56 1997bPublication Date: 1997Contents: Manto - G.V. Desani - Nirad C. Chaudhuri - Kamala Markanday - Mulk Raj Anand - R.K. Narayan - Ved Mehta - Anita Desai - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Satyajit Ray - Salman Rushdie - Padma Perera - Upamanyu Chatterjee - Rohinton Mistry - Bapsi Sidhwa - I. Allan Sealy - Shashi Tharoor - Sara Suleri - Firdaus Kanga - Anjana Appachana - Amit Chaudhuri - Amitav Ghosh - Githa Hiraharan - Gita Mehta - Vikram Seth - Vikram Chandra - Ardashir Vakil - Mukul Kesavan - Arundhati Roy - Kiran Desai
Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag by Call Number: PR9199.3 .M494 T35 1997Publication Date: 1997Mistry charts the intersecting lives of Firozsha Baag, yielding a delightful collective portrait of a middle-class Indian community poised between the old ways and the new. -- New York Times
Truth Tales: Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of IndiaCall Number: PK5461 .T78 1990 (JPL & DT)Publication Date: 1993The rich popular tradition of India's women writers translated from seven of the country's languages.
Ticket to Minto : Stories of India and America by Call Number: PS3606 .R33 T53 2001Publication Date: 2001A passage to a world suspended between East and West, India and America, home and away.
Delhi Noir by Call Number: PK5440 .D45 2009Publication Date: 2009A book of India's best crime writers, most of whom are totally unknown in North America.
Collected Stories by Call Number: PR9499.3.D474 A6 2004Publication Date: 2003Two-volume collection of selected stories of the Indian author.
Veiled Suite: The Collected Poems by Call Number: PR9499.3.A39 V45 2009Publication Date: 2009Moves from playful early poems to themes of mourning and loss, culminating in the ghazals of Call Me Ishmael Tonight. The title poem appears in print for the first time.
Corridor by Call Number: PR9499.3.B263 C677 2004Publication Date: 2005Played out in the corridors of Connaught Place and Calcutta, the story captures the alienation and fragmented reality of urban life through an imaginative alchemy of text and image.
The Simoqin Prophecies by Call Number: PR9499.4.B37 S5 2004Publication Date: 2005Part 1 of the Game World Trilogy. Drawn from a variety of sources ranging from Greek and India epics to spy novels, fairytales to super heroes.- The Manticore's Secret by Call Number: PR9499.4.B3935 M36 2005Publication Date: 2005Part 2 of the Game World Trilogy.
- The Unwaba Revelations by Call Number: PK1730.13.A88 U59 2007Publication Date: 2007Part 3 of the Game World Trilogy.
English, August: an Indian Story by Call Number: PR9499.3.C4665 E54 2006Publication Date: 2006Comic masterpiece from contemporary India. Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, the hottest town in India; deep in the sticks.
Red Earth and Pouring Rain: A Novel by Call Number: PS3553.H27165 R43 1995Publication Date: 1997Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country.
Freedom Song: Three Novels by Call Number: PR9499.3 .C4678 F74 2000Publication Date: 1999In these three short novels--Freedom Song, Afternoon Raag, andA Strange and Sublime Address Chaudhuri illuminates the surprisingly nuanced intimate worlds of middle-class Indian men, women, and children.
South-Asian Fiction in English by Call Number: E-bookPublication Date: 2016Survey of contemporary fictions of South Asia in English, and commissioned chapters on each of the national traditions. It covers less well known writings from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as well as the more firmly established canon of contemporary Indian literature, and features chapters on important new and emergent forms such as the graphic novel, genre fiction and the short story.
Victory City by Call Number: PR6068.U757 V53 2023Publication Date: 2023The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries--from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie
The Golden House by Call Number: JPL 3rd Floor PR6068.U757 G65 2017Publication Date: 2017On the day of Barack Obama's inauguration, an enigmatic billionaire from foreign shores takes up residence in the architectural jewel of "the Gardens," a cloistered community in New York's Greenwich Village. The neighborhood is a bubble within a bubble, and the residents are immediately intrigued by the eccentric newcomer and his family.
Midnight's Children by Call Number: PR6068.U757 G76 1999 (JPL & DT)Publication Date: 2006Two babies, born at the stroke of midnight os India’s independence from Britain, are switched at birth. They share a mystical bond with India's 1,000 other "midnight's children," born at that fateful time. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Call Number: PR6068.U757 G76 1999Publication Date: 1999A famous and much-loved singer is caught up in a devastating earthquake and never seen again. This is her story, and that of her lover who finds, loses, seeks, and again finds her, over and over.
The Moor's Last Sigh by Call Number: PR6068.U757 M66 1995Publication Date: 1996The exiled last surviving scion of a dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords is also a compulsive storyteller.
The Satanic Verses by Call Number: PR9499.3 .R8 S28 1989 (JPL & DT)Publication Date: 1989One of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written. The story begins with a terrorist bombing of a London-bound jet in midflight. Two Indian actors of opposing sensibilities fall to earth, transformed into living symbols of what is angelic and evil.
Shalimar the Clown by Call Number: PR6068.U757 S47 2005Publication Date: 2005The title character refers ot a Kashmiri village who performs a tightrope act for amusement.
Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Call Number: PR6068.U757 T96 2015Publication Date: 2015A down-to-earth gardener finds that his feet no longer touch the ground. A graphic novelist awakens in his bedroom to a mysterious entity. Abandoned at the mayor's office, a baby identifies corruption with her mere presence. Unbeknownst to them, they are all descended from the whimsical, capricious, wanton creatures known as the jinn, who live in a world separated from ours by a veil.
Shame by Call Number: PR6068 .U757 S5 1997 (JPL & DT)Publication Date: 1997Tale of an ongoing duel between the families of two men in an unnamed country that is not quite Pakistan. Portrays shame as the root of violence.
Joseph Anton by Call Number: PR6068.U757 Z46 2012Publication Date: 2012Non-fiction. On February 14, 1989, Valentine's Day, Salman Rushdie was telephoned by a BBC journalist and told that he had been "sentenced to death" by the Ayatollah Khomeini for writing The Satanic Verses,
Fury by Call Number: PR6068 .U757 F87 2001Publication Date: 2001An historian of ideas and dollmaker extraordinaire, steps out of his life one day, abandons his family without a word of explanation, and flees London for New York.
East West: Stories by Call Number: PR6068.U757 E27 1994Publication Date: 1995Nine stories that together reveal the intricate intimacies and unbridgeable distances between the East and the West.
The Enchantress of Florence by Call Number: PR6068.U757 E53 2008Publication Date: 2008A tall, yellow-haired young European traveler calling himself the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the Emperor Akbar, lord of the great Mughal empire,
Grimus by Call Number: PR6068.U757 G7 2003Publication Date: 2003After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing and ultimately the burden of living forever.
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Call Number: PR9499.3.R8 H37 1991Publication Date: 1991Children's novel set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals.
Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction 1992-2002 by Call Number: PR6068 .U757 S74 2002Publication Date: 2002The essays, speeches, and opinion pieces, covers Rushdie’s fascination with The Wizard of Oz, his obsession with soccer, the state of the novel, and delves into his unique personal experience fighting the Iranian fatwa, he addresses the subject of militant Islam in a series of challenging and deeply felt responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The book ends with a lecture Rushdie delivered at Yale in the spring of 2002, which has never been published before.
