The Man-Eater of Malgudi
10 best books like The Man-Eater of Malgudi (R.K. Narayan): English, August: An Indian Story, Raj, Ladies Coupé, A Married Woman, The Raj Quartet (1): The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, Delayed Monsoon, A Bend in the Ganges, Saraswati Park, Coolie, Ravan & Eddie
| Author | Upamanyu Chatterjee |
| ISBN | 1590171799 |
Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, “the hottest town in India,” deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents...
| Author | Gita Mehta |
| ISBN | 0449905667 |
Jaya Singh is the intelligent, beautiful, and compassionate daughter of the Maharajah and Maharani of Balmer. Raised in the thousand-year-old tradition of purdah, a strict regime of seclusion, silence, and submission, Jaya is ill-prepared to assume the role of Regent Maharani of Sirpur upon the...
| Author | Anita Nair |
| ISBN | 0312320876 |
Meet Akhila: forty-five and single, an income-tax clerk, and a woman who has never been allowed to live her own life - always the daughter, the sister, the aunt, the provider - until the day she gets herself a one-way ticket to the seaside town of Kanyakumari. In the intimate atmosphere of the all-women...
| Author | Manju Kapur |
| ISBN | 0571215661 |
My wife picked this and I followed in curious to know more about Married Woman :>
At the backdrop of Babri Masjid in 1992, the premise is set nicely. The character portrayal of Astha with her mental turmoils and lead up to her marriage was also great. Even the relationships were etched nicely.
Felt...
The Raj Quartet (1): The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion
| Author | Paul Scott |
| ISBN | 0307263967 |
The Raj Quartet, Paul Scott's epic study of British India in its final years, has no equal. Tolstoyan in scope and Proustian in detail but completely individual in effect, it records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals...
| Author | Chitralekha Paul |
| ISBN | 8122311717 |
After a prolonged dry spell, dark clouds loom over the horizon. The rain drops hit the parched earth with a vengeance. The aroma of soaked earth fills the air. A sense of rejuvenation spreads around, as new life springs out, transforming the barren landscape into a thriving oasis. Abhilasha, the mother...
| Author | Manohar Malgonkar |
| ISBN | 0670157252 |
Although I usually do not read Indians authors in English, this exception turned out to be fruitful. Manohar Malgonkar's A Bend in the Ganges explores the lives of three people during the time of partition.
Written in a straightforward yet appealing manner, the author presents two sides of...
| Author | Anjali Joseph |
| ISBN | 0007360770 |
A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author recently chosen as one of the Telegraph’s ‘20 under 40’ best UK writers.
Famous for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such space works Mohan, a contemplative man who has spent his...
| Author | Mulk Raj Anand |
| ISBN | 0140186808 |
Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bomboy and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival...
| Author | Kiran Nagarkar |
| ISBN | 0670861804 |
An extremely funny novel about two larger-than-life heroes and their bawdy, Rabelaisian adventures in post-colonial urban India, Ravan and Eddie is now considered a masterpiece of Indian writing in English. This is the hilarious story of Ravan, a Maratha Hindu, and Eddie, a Roman Catholic, growing...
| Author | Upneet Grover |
| ISBN | 8122311741 |
Vineet was your average engineer at an IT firm. His office sucked the life out of him making him hate every moment he spent there. Cricket was his passion, a passion which he never had the guts to pursue until fate bestowed upon him an opportunity which would change his life forever.Shrugging off a sparkling...
| Author | Rabindranath Tagore |
| ISBN | 0140449884 |
The poems of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) are among the most haunting and tender in Indian and in world literature, expressing a profound and passionate human yearning. His ceaselessly inventive works deal with such subjects as the interplay between God and the world, the eternal and transient,...
| Author | Anita Desai |
| ISBN | 0618056807 |
A "beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story" (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The novel follows Hugo Baumgartner as he flees Nazi Germany -- and his Jewish heritage...
| Author | M.G. Vassanji |
| ISBN | 1400042178 |
In the aftermath of the brutal violence that gripped western India in 2002, Karsan Dargawalla, heir to Pirbaag – the shrine of a mysterious, medieval sufi – begins to tell the story of his family. His tale opens in the 1960s: young Karsan is next in line after his father to assume lordship of the shrine,...
वयं रक्षामः [Vayam Rakshamah]
| Author | आचार्य चतुरसेन [Acharya Chatursen] |
It is different perspective of great Indian epic Ramayana. The king of Lanka Ravana is portrayed as hero who has an ambitious plan to unite different contemporary clans.
It is very difficult to write a mythological book without distorting facts and overcome prejudices that have strongly conditioned...
The Guide by R. K. Narayan Summary & Study Guide
| Author | Sachin Kundalkar |
| ISBN | 8174865381 |
Sachin Kundalkar started on his first novel at 20 and finished it when he was 22. The novel was Cobalt Blue, the story of a brother and sister who fall in love with the same man, and how a traditional Marathi family is shattered by the ensuing events – a work that both shocked and spoke to Marathi readers....
| Author | Amitav Ghosh |
| ISBN | 0618329625 |
Amitav Ghosh’s extraordinary first novel makes a claim on literary turf held by Gabriel García Márquez and Salman Rushdie. In a vivid and magical story, The Circle of Reason traces the misadventures of Alu, a young master weaver in a small Bengali village who is falsely accused of terrorism. Alu...
| Author | Ruskin Bond |
| ISBN | 0670049549 |
In dull and dusty Pipalnagar, each day is like another, and 'there is not exactly despair, but resignation'. Even the dreams here are small. Adrift among them, the narrator, Arun, a struggling writer of detective novels in Urdu, waits for inspiration to write a blockbuster. Meanwhile, he seeks reassurance...
The award-winning author Amit Chaudhuri has been widely praised for the beauty and subtle power of his writing and for the ways in which he makes “place” as complex a character as his men and women. Now he brings these gifts to a spellbinding amalgam of memoir, reportage, and history in this intimate,...
