Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the Booker Prize–winning author of The White Tiger, a stunning novel of greed and murder in contemporary Mumbai.
At the heart of Adiga's gripping second novel ("his plots don’t unwind, they surge" —USA Today) are two equally compelling men, poised for a showdown.
Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a luxury building
3) Tiger boy
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tiger cub has escaped from a reserve in the Sunderbans in West Bengal, India, and Neel, a poor boy from the islands, is determined to find her in order to save her from being captured and sold on the black market by Mr. Gupta and his men.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this stunning novel, prize-winning author Neel Mukherjee wrests open the central, defining events of our century: displacement and migration. Five characters, in very different circumstances-from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, to a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city-find out the meanings of dislocation and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
India, 1920. Captain Wyndham and Sergeant Banerjee of the Calcutta Police Force investigate the dramatic assassination of a Maharajah's son, in the sequel to A Rising Man.
The fabulously wealthy kingdom of Sambalpore is home to tigers, elephants, diamond mines, and the beautiful Palace of the Sun. But when the heir to the throne is assassinated in the presence of Captain Sam Wyndham and Sergeant 'Surrender-Not' Banerjee, they discover a kingdom riven...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Be Kind: Books for School-Age Kids
Book Club Kits: Fourth to Sixth Grade Choices
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
Stories of Resilience
Book Club Kits: Fourth to Sixth Grade Choices
Books By And About Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders
Stories of Resilience
Formats
Description
Four determined homeless children make a life for themselves in Chennai, India.
10) The Case of the Missing Servant: from the files of Vish Puri, India's "most private investigator"
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
14) Holi hai!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Gauri's anger prevent her from enjoying the Holi festivities with her family?
15) The other man
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Heir to his father's Mumbai business empire, Ved Mehra has money, looks, and status. He is also living as a closeted gay man. Thirty-eight, lonely, still reeling from a breakup, and under pressure from his exasperated mother, Ved agrees to an arranged marriage. He regrettably now faces a doomed future with the perfectly lovely Disha Kapoor. Then Ved's world is turned upside down when he meets Carlos Silva, an American on a business trip in India....
16) The razor's edge
Author
Pub. Date
2003, c1944
Language
English
Description
Leaving wealth and loved ones behind, Larry Darrell journeys to the mountains of India in search of spiritual wisdom.
18) Island's end
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
A young girl trains to be the new spiritual leader of her remote Andaman Island tribe, while facing increasing threats from the modern world.
Borrow from another library
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Darien Library can be requested from other libraries via our interlibrary loan system (ILL).