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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 ...
List of novels [1] [2] Title Author Year Language Notes Anguriyo Binimoy: Bhudev Mukhopadhyay: 1862 Bengali: First known historical novel of India. Doorgeshnondini: Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay: 1865 Bengali: First part of first trilogy in historical novels of India.
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]
In 2014, the novel was ranked in The Daily Telegraph as one of the 10 all-time greatest Asian novels. [14] On 5 November 2019, the BBC News listed The God of Small Things on its list of the 100 most influential novels. [15] Emma Lee-Potter of The Independent listed it as one of the 12 best Indian novels. [16]
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.
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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.
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.