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Jivan, a young Muslim woman from a Kolkata slum, is arrested for a terrorist attack on a train after a careless Facebook post, and two people who could help her have ambitions of their own.
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Burnt Shadows
Hiroko Tanaka survives the atomic bomb at Nagasaki in 1945, and her life, and her family's, carries her on to Delhi, Karachi and New York.
Mao II
A reclusive novelist lets a photographer take his picture and is drawn out of hiding into a scheme to free a young poet held hostage in Beirut.
A Guardian and a Thief
In a near-future Kolkata gripped by famine, Ma, who runs a shelter, is a week from joining her husband in Michigan with her father and baby daughter when Boomba, a young man from the shelter, breaks into their flat looking for food and takes their passports and climate visas.
The Mystic Masseur
Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher in 1940s Trinidad, sets himself up as a masseur and then as a mystic healer.
The Good Terrorist
Alice, a middle-class revolutionary in her thirties, moves in with a group of comrades squatting in a derelict London house and sets about making it a home while they plan something bigger.
Untouchable
One day in the life of Bakha, an eighteen-year-old sweeper and latrine cleaner in a north Indian cantonment town, and the humiliations of being untouchable.
Leviathan
After a man blows himself up beside a Wisconsin road, his novelist friend reconstructs how a gentle writer became a bomber of Statue of Liberty replicas.
The Inheritance of Loss
In a crumbling house in Kalimpong, at the foot of Kanchenjunga, an embittered retired judge lives with his orphaned granddaughter Sai and his cook, whose son is working illegally in New York kitchens.
Samskara
When Naranappa, a Brahmin who broke every rule, dies in a south Indian village, the other Brahmins can't decide who should perform his last rites, and Praneshacharya, the most learned of them, faces his own crisis.
The Secret Agent
A spy ring in Edwardian London uses a pornography shop as a front, and the plot that unfolds exposes the cynicism of all political violence.
Crabwalk
A journalist born on the night the refugee ship Wilhelm Gustloff was torpedoed in 1945 is pushed by his mother to write its story, and finds his teenage son is already obsessed with it online.
Home Fire
Isma, a British Muslim woman, is free at last to study in America after raising her twin siblings, Aneeka and Parvaiz, but Parvaiz has gone to follow the jihadi father he never knew.