novel
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Booker Prize winner: How does David Szalay’s ‘Flesh’ portray working-class masculinity?
Tory Young, The Conversation
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‘Heat and Dust’ at 50: The ideas of India in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Booker Prize-winning novel
Sanjay Sipahimalani
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Fiction: Salil wants to collect art, Nupur wants to be a curator. But this world isn’t so welcoming
V Sanjay Kumar
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Fiction: For Karno, meeting Devaki feels like destiny. However, she might not be who she seems
Sayantan Ghosh
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Fiction: Desertvadi, Rajasthan is a retirees’ paradise, but for Geetika, it’s a claustrophobic trap
Anuradha Marwah
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Fiction: Usha struggles to honour her husband’s last wish, shuttling between India and America
Sujit Saraf
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Fiction: An underground revolutionary group plans a murderous conspiracy at Nalini’s Shimla hotel
Srishti Chaudhary
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‘Water Days’: Sundar Sarukkai’s novel sensitively portrays the fractured histories of displacements
Devina Dutt
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Amrita Mahale’s new novel ‘Real Life’: Tara is missing. Mansi sets out to retrace her days
Amrita Mahale
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Fiction: Nobo’s life takes an unexpected turn when he finds an infant abandoned at the station
Manoranjan Byapari Anchita Ghatak
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‘The Elsewhereans’ by Jeet Thayil travels through timelines, ingeniously connects places and events
Saloni Sharma
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‘A New World Romance’: Schism between mind and soul forms the crux of this modern meditation on love
Sonakshi Srivastava
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Fiction: A woman has inherited a bungalow from her grandfather, but it bears memories of violence
Ponnu Elizabeth Mathew
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Sunday book pick: Husband vs best friend vs child vs career in ‘Goodbye Without Leaving’
Sayari Debnath
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Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
Manjul Bajaj
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Fiction: A woman in self-imposed exile befriends the pregnant child-bride of a godman
Doorva Devarshi
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‘The Ex-Daughters of Tolstoy House’: How much blood must be spilled before the cycle is broken?
Suchismita Ghosh
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Sunday book pick: The rootless marriage of an Englishman and a Bengali woman in ‘Memories of Rain’
Sayari Debnath
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Sunday book pick: ‘My Heavenly Favourite’, a novel about sexual grooming puts the reader in a trance
Sayari Debnath
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‘The City and Its Uncertain Walls’: Haruki Murakami’s novel is pre-packaged for consumption
Diya Isha