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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.
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Clear Light of Day
Bim, who has stayed in the family's crumbling house in Old Delhi to look after her disabled brother, is visited by her sister Tara, and they remember the summer of Partition.
Gora
In 1880s Calcutta, Gora, a fiery young champion of orthodox Hindu nationalism, argues his way through friendships, love and politics, not knowing the truth about his own birth.
The Home and the World
During the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, Bimala, the wife of a liberal landowner, steps out of the women's quarters and falls under the spell of his charismatic friend Sandip, a nationalist leader.
My Friends
Khaled, a Libyan who came to Edinburgh to study and was wounded at a protest outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984, walks home across London years later and remembers the two friends who shaped his life in exile.
For Two Thousand Years
A young Jewish architecture student in Bucharest in the 1920s and 30s keeps a diary as the antisemitism of his friends and teachers grows around him.
The Echo Maker
After a truck crash on a Nebraska road, a young man wakes believing his sister is an impostor, and a famous neurologist arrives as sandhill cranes gather on the Platte River.
Swing Time
Two mixed-race girls from a London housing estate who meet at a dance class take different paths, one a talented dancer, the other an assistant to a global pop star, in a novel about race, talent and envy.
NW
Four Londoners' lives intersect in the northwest neighbourhood of Kilburn, spanning three decades of British class, race, and the stories we tell about our futures.
Gate of the Sun
In a makeshift hospital in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Khalil, a self-taught doctor, tells stories to Yunis, an old Palestinian fighter lying in a coma.
Tirra Lirra by the River
Nora Porteous, in her seventies, comes home to the Brisbane house where she grew up after decades in Sydney and London, and remembers her life.
Palm-of-the-Hand Stories
Seventy very short stories Kawabata wrote across his life, few longer than two pages, of chance meetings, love, death and the turning seasons.
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.