Genre :: India (12 books)

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  #24

  A Passage to India

  by E. M. Forster

  (8 Reviews)

  469 Points

  "Except for the Marabar caves--and they are twenty miles off--the city of Chrandrapore presents nothing extraordinary."

  

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  #29

  Midnight's Children

  by Salman Rushdie

  (9 Reviews)

  391 Points

  "I was born in the city of Bombay . . . once upon a time."

  

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  #134

  A Suitable Boy

  by Vikram Seth

  (2 Reviews)

  143 Points

  "'You too will marry a boy I choose' said Mrs Rupa Mehra firmly to her younger daughter."

  

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  #161

  Kim

  by Rudyard Kipling

  (6 Reviews)

  125 Points

  "He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam-Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher - the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum."

  

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  #165

  A Bend in the River

  by V. S. Naipaul

  (2 Reviews)

  120 Points

  "The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it."

  

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  #268

  A House for Mr.Biswas

  by V. S. Naipaul

  (1 Review)

  79 Points

  "Ten weeks before he died, Mr. Mohun Biswas, a journalist of Sikkim Street, St. James, Port of Spain, was sacked."

  

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  #298

  Sea of Poppies

  by Amitav Ghosh

  (1 Review)

  72 Points

  "The vision of a tall-masted ship, at sail on the ocean, came to Deeti on an otherwise ordinary day, but she knew instantly that the apparition was a sign of destiny for she had never seen such a..."

  

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  #336

  The God of Small Things

  by Arundhati Roy

  (6 Reviews)

  66 Points

  "May in Ayemenem is a hot, brooding month.Maj je v Ajemenemu vroč, morast mesec."

  

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  #387

  The Home and the World

  by Rabindranath Tagore

  (3 Reviews)

  53 Points

  

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  #419

  The Satanic Verses

  by Salman Rushdie

  (5 Reviews)

  46 Points

  "To be born again " sang Gibreel Farishta tumbling from the heavens, "first you have to die."

  

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