Fiction, World Literature / India
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Munni At My Doorstep
A Novel by Nargis Abraham
The setting could be anytime, anywhere in the world, and the protagonist could be any single working woman. Here, the protagonist is Clara Ferguson, a Scottish spinster missionary in British India of the 1890s. One night, a frantic woman pounds...
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Smouldering Fire
Three Religions — One Humanity by Nurdin M. Kassam and Ramanlal Vasantlal Desai
Smouldering Fire is historical fiction that revolves around an uprising in India in 1857, referred to by the British as the ‘Indian mutiny’ and by Indians as the beginning of the struggle for liberation. The narrative is woven around Rudradutt, a...
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In the Shadows of Death
by Kassie Sambaraju
What would you do if you had an appointment with death? This philosophical novella follows an unnamed protagonist who makes an appointment with Death—personified as a hipster living in an apartment in West Vancouver—and the weeks that follow as...
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The Other Side of Morning
by Stephen Goss
It is Sunday, June 20, 1756, in Calcutta. Fort William has been overtaken, and most of its occupants have fled or been killed. Only 145 denizens remain, and nothing could prepare them for the horrors that await them in the Black Hole, a minuscule...
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