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Burnt Shadows

Kamila Shamsie

Bloomsbury

•A sweeping epic crossing cultures and continents, set between Nagasaki and 9/11 in India, Pakistan, New York and Afghanistan.

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese

Random House

•Moving from Madras to Ethiopia to US, from the 1940s to now, a novel about the world of medicine and its connection to love and loss.

Family Planning

Karan Mahajan

Rupa

•The book captures Arjun’s teenage angst and frustration, his budding love and alternate life as an aspiring rockstar.

Homeboy

H V Naqvi

Harper

•Debut novel by young Pakistani writer exploring the changing world of young Pakistanis based in the West.

The Immortals

Amit Chaudhuri

Picador

•Follows the paths of three musicians, examining the relationship between music and money.

In Other Rooms, Other Wonders

Daniyal Mueenuddin

Random House

•Moving from the elegant drawing rooms of Lahore to the mud villages of rural Multan, a collection of short stories about feudal Pakistan.

Life Is Perfect

Himani Dalmia

Rupa

•A portrait of modern life in Delhi, it is peopled with a wide cast of characters and winding through colleges, café parties and dinners.

The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay

Siddharth D Shanghvi

Penguin

•Karan Seth, star photographer is in Bombay on a private mission: to immortalise the city in a unique photo-record of its hidden faces.

Map of the Invisible World

Tash Aw

Harper

•Brilliant literary novel set in Indonesia.

My Kind of Girl

Buddhadeva Bose

Random House

•Four middle-aged men sit together in a railway station. To pass their time, each tell a story of a woman they loved secretly in their youth…

Revenge of Ravana, Sons of Sita

Ashok Banker

•Two new books in his Ramayana series.

Salim Must Die

Mukul Deva

Harper

•A sequel to Lashkar, it begins with the death of Osama bin Laden.

Sethji

Shobhaa Dé

Penguin

•Dé’s first novel in a decade, this is a book that the entire nation will be looking forward to.

Solo

Rana Dasgupta

Harper

•Set in Bulgaria, it is a novel about lost roots and wasted ambitions — and the depths of lyricism by which human beings overcome them.

The Story of My Assassins

Tarun Tejpal

Harper

•Follows the travails of five men charged with conspiring to kill a down and out journalist, forcing him to look beyond his life, into theirs.

The Wish Maker

Ali Sethi

Penguin

•This is a novel of love, friendship, politics and family ties, set against the turbulent background of modern Pakistan.

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