Fiction
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‘Soft Animal’: A rare novel about womanhood and the unmaking of a marriage during the lockdown
Sayari Debnath
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This debut novel is a political bildungsroman about young people coming to grips with a new India
Devika Rege
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Fiction: Two teenagers find their illusions about Delhi being a model metropolis shattered
N Dilip Kumar
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Fiction: Fuelled by anxiety and depression, a former prodigy succumbs to alcoholism
Sandeep Mathew
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Fiction: Can solicitor Perveen Mistry prove an employee innocent without endangering her own family?
Sujata Massey
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Children’s fiction: Simi was popular at her old school but not at her new one. Will things change?
Arti Sonthalia
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‘I’m a Fan’: Novel about modern dating and online influencer culture is an uncomfortable, heady read
Sayari Debnath
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Fiction in translation: In the forests, a man looks for his sister, who left home to join Maoists
Manoj Rupda Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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Fiction: An older Indian man wants to marry a Japanese woman, but she sets an unusual condition
Rajesh Talwar
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Fiction: The Wildlife Protection Act bans the Irular people’s trade. How will the tribe survive?
Zai Whitaker
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Adventure story: A human skull in a dead man’s trunk has a code to a treasure carved on it
Hemendra Kumar Roy Jashodhara Chakraborti
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This new novel imagines a world facing the terrifying consequences of single-minded devotion
Praveena Shivram
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For young readers: With time running out, can Maya control her powers and protect her from herself?
Payal Dhar
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‘The Woman who Climbed Trees’ deftly carves out space for women’s emotional and physical subversions
Saloni Sharma
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A new Korean novel in translation presents national traumas through personal ones
Kyung-Sook Shin Anton Hur
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Fiction: Four friends go on a girls’ trip to Goa to celebrate womanhood and mend a broken heart
Saumyaa Vohra
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This story about two elephant brothers is a tale of friendship and courage, human greed and hubris
Vinoy Thomas Nandakumar K
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A new translation of Bengali writer Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s beloved novel ‘Ichhamoti’ is here
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
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New in fiction: A millennial couple’s marriage is put to test during India’s surreal Covid lockdown
Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
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This new novel weaves a tale through multiple cities and lives connected by strange coincidences
Anil Menon