fiction

The Garden of Forking Paths

Nandini Nair

After two decades, Pankaj Mishra returns with a novel. Upamanyu Chatterjee makes his debut as a crime writer. Booker-winning authors Julian Barnes and Douglas Stuart release their much awaited novels

Grant Us Pardon, Saami

Perumal Murugan

A story by Perumal Murugan | Translated by Kavitha Muralidharan

Tell Me How to Be

Neel Patel

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Remorse and Reconciliation

Chintan Girish Modi

A queer-themed novel about immigrants, spanning Chennai to San Francisco

Anees Salim: The Heirs of the King

Jai Arjun Singh

Anees Salim’s multi-narrator novel tells of children discovering their lineage

The Great Indian Family

Antara Raghavan

With her 20th book, Namita Gokhale does what she does best—write about lives like ours

The Final Six

Nandini Nair

The 2021 Booker Prize shortlist tells of the persistence of grief, the deceptions of online prattle, the call of the wild, racial inequality and the triumph of the human spirit