Books like The Satanic Verses
Two Indian actors survive a terrorist attack on their plane over the English Channel, and Gibreel begins turning into the archangel Gabriel while Saladin turns into a goatish devil, in a novel about migration, identity and faith.
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Midnight's Children
Saleem Sinai, born at the stroke of midnight as India became independent, discovers that he is telepathically linked to the other children born in that hour, and his life becomes tangled with the nation's.
The Moor's Last Sigh
The last of a Bombay spice-trading dynasty, a man ageing at twice the normal speed, tells the story of his family and of his mother, a great painter who put them all in her canvases.
The Master and Margarita
The Devil visits 1930s Moscow with a giant cat, a naked witch, and a vaudeville show, exposing the lies of Soviet society while a novelist rewrites the story of Pontius Pilate.
Nights at the Circus
A winged cockney trapeze artist at the turn of the century is investigated by a sceptical American reporter who then joins her circus tour across Russia.
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.
Only Yesterday
Isaac Kumer, a young idealist from Galicia, arrives in Ottoman Palestine in the early 1900s to work the land and ends up a house painter caught between secular Jaffa and religious Jerusalem.
Going After Cacciato
A soldier named Cacciato walks away from the war in Vietnam, saying he is going to Paris, and his squad is sent after him across eight thousand miles.
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Ximen Nao, a landowner executed in the land reform of 1950, protests his innocence in hell and is sent back to his village as a donkey, then an ox, a pig, a dog and a monkey, to watch China change over fifty years.
Kafka on the Shore
A fifteen-year-old runaway and a strange old man live parallel quests that converge at the edge of consciousness, guided by talking cats and phantom soldiers.
Tropic of Orange
When an orange carrying the Tropic of Cancer travels north from Mexico, it drags the line and the hemisphere with it, and seven people in Los Angeles, from a news producer to a homeless man conducting traffic from a freeway overpass, are caught up as the map shifts.
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
Sonia, a student writer in snowy Vermont, and Sunny, a struggling journalist in New York, are two young Indians whose grandparents try to arrange a match between them, and their unlikely relationship carries them across continents and generations.
The Shadow Lines
A boy growing up in Calcutta pieces together the lives of his family across Calcutta, Dhaka and London, and a death in a riot in 1964.