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Fiction
| Amitav Ghosh |
| The Calcutta Chromosomes The Calcutta Chromosome is one of those books that's marketed as a mainstream thriller even though it is an excellent science fiction novel (It won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award). |
| The Glass Palace In an industry not known for risk-taking, the publisher is to be congratulated for offering Ghosh (The Calcutta Chromosome) a contract on his as-yet-unwritten novel. Set primarily in Burma, Malaya, and India, this work spans from 1885 |
| In an Antique Land In a leisurely blend of travelogue, history and cross-cultural analysis, Indian writer Ghosh reconstructs a 12th-century master-slave relationship that confounds modern concepts of slavery. Abraham Ben Yiju, a prosperous Tunisian Jewish merchant |
| Adarshir Vakil |
| Beach Boy Marrying a universal story (an adolescent boy's coming-of-age) with a specific locale (India in the 1970s), Indian writer Vakil has produced a charming and agreeable first novel distinguished by vivid detail, wry humor and charismatic characters. |
| Aminuddin Khan |
| A Shift in the Wind Set in the Hyderabad of the 1950s and 1960s, this is a story of the lives and loves of an Indian aristocracy told variously through a host of narrative voices. An elegant and evocative novel, the prose is resplendent in its portrayal of Indian nobility, quiet in its depiction of their loves. |
| A Way through the Woods Max, Nawab of Sirmoor, is educated, poised and charming. He is cool and emotionally uninvolved. But personal tragedy dissolves his cool detachment and demonstrates that life's best equations are not necessarily the simplest ones. |
| Vikram Seth |
| A Suitable Boy Seth previously made a splash with his 1986 novel in verse, The Golden Gate . Here he abandons the compression of poetry to produce an enormous novel that will enthrall most readers; those who are fazed by a marathon read, however, may gasp for mercy. |
| An Equal Music The violinist hero of Vikram Seth's third novel would very much like to be hearing secret harmonies. Instead, living in London 10 years after a key disaster, Michael Holme is easily irritated by his beautiful young (and even French!) girlfriend and by his colleagues in the Maggiore Quartet. |
| Golden Gate Can 690 sonnets, rhyming a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-f-f-e-g-g, be a novel? Definitely! First published in 1986 and still fresh (the sole sign of its publication date being the frequent use of the word yuppie), Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate will turn the verse-fearing into admiring acolytes. |
| From Heaven Lake About the author's travels from Tibet to New Delhi, with nomadic Muslims, Chinese officials, Buddhists and others. |
Non Fiction
| Aamir Ail |
| For Hills to Climb A tribute to the contribution made by the Doon School to early Indian mountaineering. This was in memory of the June 23rd, 1951 Indian expedition to the Himalayan peak, Trisul 23, 360 ft. The summit team consisted of Gurdial Singh, Roy Greenwood and Dawa Thondup. |
| Martand Singh |
| Handcrafted Indian Textiles This book is based on the Visvakarma series of textile exhibitions (1980-1990) which Martand Singh initiated with the Ministry of Textiles. These exhibitions were a part of the Festival of India programmes in the UK, France, Sweden, and Russia. |
| Sandeep Dutt |
| Guide to the Schools of Doon This book includes prospectus and admissions information on 150 schools in the Dehra Dun and Mussoorie area |
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