 | The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $0.24 Rushdie's most recent book, and a personal favorite of mine. Funny, heartbreaking, and manages to be both a very hip book and one that portrays human relationships in a remarkable way.
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 | The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
Buy used from: $3.41 Ghosh's masterpiece. An incredible book about human love, obsession and heartbreak, and the "shadow lines" which keep us together and tear us apart.
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 | A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Buy used from: $0.07 Mistry is one of the best Indian English novelists writing in the realist style. A beautifully structured, warm, and ultimately tragic book, about people who come together during India's "Emergency."
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| Listening Now by Anjana Appachana
Buy used from: $3.99 Appachana's portrait of the relationships between women and men, and women and women. Heartbreaking and sympathetic.
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 | The Better Man: A Novel by Anita Nair
Buy used from: $0.01 Anita Nair's debut is a powerful novel about a man who comes back to his hometown after many years and is forced to confront his past, and the people who come with it.
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 | The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
Buy used from: $0.01 Roy didn't win the Pulitzer Prize for nothing. A breakthrough novel in a revolutionary style about families and tragedies.
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| Last Labyrinth by Arun Joshi
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $11.00 Joshi's Sahitya Akademi award-winning novel about love and obsession is a haunting masterpiece. Unfortunately not in print at the moment, but I have hopes that it will return.
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| A Suitable Boy: Novel, A by Vikram Seth
Buy used from: $0.01 A huge epic novel about India just after Independence and Partition. Despite its huge scope, the character portraits are intimate, moving and wonderful.
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 | Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
Buy new: $11.92 / Used from: $0.01 Famed writer Anita Desai's daughter's debut. A smartly written parable about a boy who leaves his empty city life to live in a tree, and become a petty guru.
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 | What the Body Remembers: A Novel by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.44 Baldwin's lushly written novel about two Sikh women who are the co-wives of wealthy Sikh land-owner Sardarji. A pleasure to read.
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 | The Mistress of Spices: A Novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 A guilty pleasure at its finest. A lushly romantic fairy tale of Tai, a "Mistress of Spices," who falls in love with a mortal (taboo!).
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| That Long Silence by Deshpande Shashi
Buy used from: $6.98 Painful and true account of a marriage, and an exploration of the (often terrible) relationships between women and men in India. A must read!
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 | Clear Light of Day by Anita Desai
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Perhaps Anita Desai's best. Richly atmospheric tale of sisters who reunite at their childhood home and reconnect with their pasts.
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 | The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor
Buy used from: $11.96 An amusing, extremely well-written incorporation of the Indian epic the Mahabharata into twentieth-century Indian politics. Quite a tour-de-force
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 | The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
Buy new: $18.68 / Used from: $0.12 Rau Badami's most recent offering surpasses even her excellent Tamarind Mem. The story of a family forced to adjust after a daughter who has been living in America dies,and they must take in her child
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