anyone that is a book reader..can you please suggest good desi books i should read..like a novel, or short stories or anything like that…plzz not written in urdu i dont know how to read it!! like some one talked about the book “Born Confused” i ordered it online…i want more books like that…juss tell me anythin’ good..!! thanx
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Ahmed was a good one. I've heard something about a book called A Suitable Boy, maybe someone else would be able to tell you more about that one.
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Ahmed - I highly recommend it ! Great book.
suitable boy by vikram seth, is pretty good - its not a short story though..
brick lane
born confused
white teeth
(sorry forgotten the authors!)
Haveli is good. and the followups of it.
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suitable boy by vikram seth, is pretty good - its not a short story though..
brick lane
born confused
white teeth
(sorry forgotten the authors!)
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Brick lane is by Monical ALi
Born Confused by Tanuja Desai Hidier
White teeth by Zadie Smith (not sure about this one)
I've heard Moth Smoke is overrated. I haven't actually read it though.
What the Body Remembers is another good book. There are loads of non-desi books out there that are also very good.
Daughter of the Wind
thanx guys i ordered Moth Smoke at bn.com
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee
by Meera Syal
Jhumpa lahiri's 2 book the first one of short stories that wno a pulitzer and the 2nd the name sake.
I happen to like The Mango Season and a breath of fresh air by AMULYA MALLADI
The Hero's Walk
by ANITA RAU BADAMI
oh and i remember i read the The Twentieth Wife: A Novel
by Indu Sundaresan and liked it too...interesting historical fiction
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I've heard Moth Smoke is overrated. I haven't actually read it though.
What the Body Remembers is another good book. There are loads of non-desi books out there that are also very good.
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I totally agree, but sometimes it's fun to read desi authors...
Kartography
In The City By The Sea
Salt and Saffron
all three by Kamila Shamsie. She is witty, intelligent and a true storyteller. All three of her novels are based in Karachi.
Bapsi Sidhwa's The Crow Eaters and Ice Candy Man.
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I've heard Moth Smoke is overrated. I haven't actually read it though.
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it is...its all about how messed up lahore is, I think we get enough of that on GS
My fedual lord was kinda good or blasphemy..
urdu ebooks
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My fedual lord was kinda good or blasphemy..
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I have read that one, and I don't think it's that good, nor did any part of it seems blasphemous to me. If there were any blasphemy in it, I certainly don't remember it. But then it wasn't such a memorable book after all!!
sf kashmir i agree with you about my feudal lord..too much self prase in the autobiography....
try the author shobha de. reads like cheap indian flicks. totally bakwas, but hey its at least not posh B*it being written by anglicised desis trying to put ethinc color to their writing when u know their first lang aint even urdu/hindi.
God of small things by Roy.
comedy
The Inscrutable Americans by Anurag Mathur
Fantacy:
Chandrakanta
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I have read that one, and I don't think it's that good, nor did any part of it seems blasphemous to me. If there were any blasphemy in it, I certainly don't remember it. But then it wasn't such a memorable book after all!!
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i cant rmemeber much either but it was kinda interesting how the women were all hopeless n couldnt do anything about the peer who sexually abused his wife n other women
Good Books
Hiya,
Everyone has recommened some great books.....here are a few I didnt see on the list....hope you like the...
Tariq Ali - He has written a quartet of novels about The clash of Christianity and Islam in the time of the Crusades...and they are really good..here are the titles..
In the Shadow/Shade of the Pomegranete Tree
The Book of Saladin
The Stone Woman
Also check out,
Anita Desai - Fasting, Feasting
Sara Suleri - Meatless Days
Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
Anita Nair - Ladies Coupe
Feryal Ali Gauhar - The Scent of Wet Earth in August
All really good books, some set in India and others in Pakistan.... and like someone mentioned earlier alot of these authors stay away from simply adding a flair of ethnicity to their books...