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A Suitable Boy is a novel by Vikram Seth, published in 1993. With 1,349 pages (1,488 pages in paperback), the English-language book is one of the longest novels published in a single volume. [1] [2] [3] A Suitable Boy is set in a newly post-independence, post-partition India. The novel follows four families during 18 months, and centres on Mrs ...
The White Tiger is a novel by Indian author Aravind Adiga.It was published in 2008 and won the 40th Booker Prize the same year. [1] The novel provides a darkly humorous perspective of India's class struggle in a globalized world as told through a retrospective narration from Balram Halwai, a village boy.
A Fine Balance is the second novel by Rohinton Mistry, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1995. Set in "an unidentified city" in India, initially in 1975 and later in 1984 during the turmoil of The Emergency, [2] the book focuses on four characters from varied backgrounds – Dina Dalal, Ishvar Darji, his nephew Omprakash Darji, and the young student Maneck Kohlah – who come together and ...
The Great Indian Novel is a satirical novel by Shashi Tharoor, first published by Viking Press in 1989. It is a fictional work that takes the story of the Mahabharata , the Indian epic, and recasts and resets it in the context of the Indian independence movement and the first three decades post-independence.
Man on Fire (Kelman novel) The Man-Eater of Malgudi; Mandala (novel) The Mandala of Sherlock Holmes; Manju (novel) Mansions of the Moon; The Marriage Plot; Marthandavarma (novel) Mathilukal; Mawali (novel) Mediocre But Arrogant; Midnight's Children; The Ministry for the Future; Mr. Sampath – The Printer of Malgudi; My Secret History
The Telegraph commented that "the novel feels like a work of social protest" with "enough fine drawing of human foibles, of different idioms and of modern British life to fill up several lesser novels." [5] In 2020, Emma Lee-Potter of The Independent listed The Year of the Runaways as one of the 12 best Indian novels. [6]
The Inheritance of Loss is the second novel by Indian author Kiran Desai.It was first published in 2006.It won a number of awards, including the Booker Prize for that year, the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award in 2007, [1] and the 2006 Vodafone Crossword Book Award.
Serious Men is a 2010 drama fiction novel written by journalist Manu Joseph. [1] The story follows Ayyan Mani, a middle-aged Dalit working as an assistant to a Brahmin astronomer at the Institute of Theory and Research in Mumbai.