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In fourteenth-century southern India, Pampa Kampana, a girl given divine powers, conjures the city of Bisnaga out of a handful of seeds and lives for centuries to see what becomes of it.
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The Ground Beneath Her Feet
A rock star and a photographer fall in love against a backdrop of earthquakes, Orphic myth, and the collision of Eastern and Western music.
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.
Arabian Nights and Days
Mahfouz picks up the Thousand and One Nights where Shahrazad stops, with the sultan's killing over and the people of the city crossing paths with genies and magic.
A Thousand Ships
The Trojan War told by its women, from the Trojan queens waiting on the shore to be taken as slaves to Penelope writing increasingly sharp letters to her absent husband.
The Mahabharata
The epic war between two branches of a royal family, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, contains within it countless stories, including the Bhagavad Gita, and every moral question imaginable.
Metamorphoses
Gods, nymphs, and mortals transform into trees, rivers, animals, and stars in a sweeping poem that contains virtually every myth the Western world inherited.
The Penelopiad
Speaking from the underworld, Penelope gives her own account of waiting twenty years for Odysseus, and the chorus of twelve maids he hanged on his return has its say too.
Sea of Poppies
A young Indian woman is torn from her family by the opium trade and cast onto a ship bound for Mauritius, in the first volume of an epic trilogy.
Green Grass, Running Water
Four very old Indians walk out of a mental hospital to fix the world, while the people of a small Alberta town head for the Sun Dance, and Coyote causes trouble.
The Mists of Avalon
The Arthur cycle retold from Morgan le Fay and the women of Avalon, as Christianity closes in on the old Britain of the Goddess and the mists behind the barge to the island begin to thin.
Saman
Four women and a priest navigate love, politics, and identity in Suharto-era Indonesia.
Women Without Men
In Tehran in the summer of 1953, five women of different classes, each escaping something, end up together in a garden in the town of Karaj.