This fable-like bestseller about separated lovers is charming, but doesn’t quite find its heart
Another stark beauty from Ireland’s literary queen, Murakami’s literary debut in English for the first time, a sad and lengthy tale of a band of brothers and Coetzee’s experiments with truth
Why the platitudes of our time are not an alternative to the religious vision of the Bhagavad Gita
This former RAW chief’s pacy account on Kashmir is not consistently insightful but his pessimism is not off the mark
Two journalists return to the darkest hours of Indian democracy
A new history of India’s role in World War II vivifies its players in this scholarly account
Sudhir Kakar on his new novel about Bhartrihari, the great Sanskrit poet of love
A capacious debut novel provides Karachi with a cast of rough characters