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Book Reviews

Book of Forgetting

Sanjay Sipahimalani

In the final instalment of the Jesus trilogy, JM Coetzee shows that everything we do and desire culminates in loss

The Death of Jesus
JM Coetzee
Gravepyres School for the Recently Deceased /
Gravepyres School for the Recently Deceased
Anita Roy
Search for Home

In a novel for young readers, Anita Roy takes one on a romp through Deadland

The RSS: And the Making of the Deep Nation /
The RSS: And the Making of the Deep Nation
Dinesh Narayanan
Neither Polemical nor Prejudicial

A dispassionate and scholarly depiction of the origins, ideology and politics of the RSS

Suralakshmi Villa /
Suralakshmi Villa
Aruna Chakravarti
House of Spirits

A tapestry of two families, one upper-class and the other desperately poor, united by happenstance

Soar /
Soar
Amit Majmudar
Amit Majmudar: ‘There Are No Atheists in the Trenches’

Amit Majmudar’s tragicomic novel of friendship between a Hindu and a Muslim, during the First World War, shows a way to reconciliation and healing. The author in conversation with Urvashi Bahuguna

Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future /
Analog/Virtual and Other Simulations of Your Future
Lavanya Lakshminarayan
Future Present

Lavanya Lakshminarayan’s debut work of fiction tells of a time when nations have fallen and corporations are running the world

White as Milk and Rice: Stories of India’s isolated tribes /
White as Milk and Rice: Stories of India’s isolated tribes
Nidhi Dugar Kundalia
An Outsider’s Gaze

A contemporary ethnographic work on isolated tribes that trespasses too often

Wild Treasures: Reflections on Natural World Heritage Sites in Asia – An Anthology /
Wild Treasures: Reflections on Natural World Heritage Sites in Asia – An Anthology
Edited by Prerna Singh Bindra, Sonali Ghosh and Anuranjan Roy
Ode to Nature

A journey across Asia’s most beautiful wildernesses

The Boy from the Woods /
The Boy from the Woods
Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben: ‘I like starting with a placid lake. I can then just drop a small pebble and see what happens’

In his latest novel, Harlan Coben writes about a feral child being adopted. The master of the suburban thriller tells Lhendup G Bhutia why pleasant families make for compelling stories

The Mirror and the Light  /
The Mirror and the Light
Hilary Mantel
Mantel’s Genius

The final novel in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy proves how the kingmaker can make for a more compelling story than the king

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