fiction
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This novel is a breathless ride through love and sex, power and slavery, crime and trafficking
Nirmala Govindarajan
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‘The New Provincials’: A story from Sumana Roy’s new book of short fiction, ‘My Mother’s Lover’
Sumana Roy
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MG Vassanji’s new novel: What a clash between romantic passion and menacing nationalism can be like
MG Vassanji
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‘I am in a state of wonder, certainty doesn’t convince me’: Urdu novelist Mirza Athar Baig
Akhtar Mirza
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Mirza Athar Baig’s surreal Urdu novel in translation will be the first wild ride of fiction in 2020
Mirza Athar Baig
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In this novel: What happens when a boy from a good family defies his father to go to America?
Usha KR
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Three women in Kolkata are endowed with superpowers in this novel. But they have a price to pay
Rajorshi Chakraborti
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How do you live between two worlds, America and India? Anosh Irani’s short stories try to find out
Anosh Irani
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Seven cli-fi novels that show us how life might imitate art when it comes to climate change
Adeline Johns-Putra, The Conversation
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Annie Zaidi’s novel paints a searing picture of how communal disharmony affects each of us
Maaz Bin Bilal
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This racy novel imagines married women and men caught up in ‘couple-swapping’ in Delhi
Shuma Raha
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In this novel, two sisters in their twenties are starving in their flat in a city. Why?
Vandana Singh-Lal
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‘Menoka Has Hanged Herself’: A film historian writes a novel set in the early era of Bengali cinema
Sharmistha Gooptu
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‘That night, Daddy left’: In this novel, a marriage, an affair, family history, and a shot at love
Dharini Bhaskar
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A former hitman writes from life in this novel about his dilemma over killing a rival gangster
Agni Sreedhar
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Harry Potter fandom leads four lonely people to form bonds in Keshava Guha’s debut novel
Keshava Guha
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Few novels present oppression and suffering through hard stories the way Uzma Aslam Khan’s book does
Osama Siddique
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Romesh Gunesekera returns to Sri Lanka, the country of his birth, with this coming-of-age novel
Romesh Gunesekera
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Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’: How to decode the story’s linguistic secrets
Simon Horobin, The Conversation
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This novel records the tricky existence of a nurse whose sister cannot stop murdering her boyfriends
Suhasini Patni