Taste of Home: Indian Authors

Explore the rich flavors of Indian literature with 'Taste of Home: Indian Authors.' Discover a curated list of books by celebrated Indian writers that bring the essence of home, culture, and tradition to life.

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A Fine Balance

 

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The God of Small Things

by Arundhati Roy

Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this is the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel who try to craft a childhood for …
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A Suitable Boy

by Vikram Seth

Tells the story of four large extended families in 1950s India against the political and religious upheavals of the time.
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The Hero's Walk

by Anita Rau Badami

In a small, dusty town in India, Sripathi Rao struggles as a copywriter to keep his family afloat in their crumbling ancestral home. But his …
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Interpreter of Maladies

by Jhumpa Lahiri

Navigating between the Indian traditions they've inherited and a baffling new world, the characters in Lahiri's elegant, touching stories seek love beyond the barriers of …
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The House of Kanooru

by Kuvempu

From Kannada's first Jnanpith award winner, a landmark of modern fiction that documents a vanishing world. When Hoovayya and Ramayya return from their studies in …
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Brick Lane

by Monica Ali

“A book you won’t be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she …
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Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee

by Meera Syal

An Indian "Waiting to Exhale", this hilarious and moving new novel by the award-winning author of "Anita and Me" is the indelible portrait of a …
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Arranged Marriage

by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Although Chitra Divakaruni's poetry has won praise and awards for many years, it is her "luminous, exquisitely crafted prose" (Ms.) that is quickly making her …
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The Sari Shop

 

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Motherland

by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan

Over the course of a single transformative summer, an American teenager travels to southern India to visit her relatives and gains new insight into her …
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The Twentieth Wife

by Indu Sundaresan

The story of Mehrunnisa, the daughter of servents who became the an empresses of the Mughal empire.
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Bombay Time

by Thrity Umrigar

During the wedding of one of their neighbors, the longtime residents of a middle-class apartment building in Bombay look back on their lives, in a …
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The Glass Palace

by Amitav Ghosh

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND LOS ANGELES TIMES “A rich, …
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Darjeeling

by Bharti Kirchner

Set in the mountainous tea plantations of Darjeeling, India, and Manhattan, this is the story of a family torn apart when two sisters fall in …
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The Satanic Verses

by Salman Rushdie

Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two figures, Gibreel Farishta, the biggest star …
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