Indian Authors Reading books Books from Jhumpa Lahiri about other places Other Cultures: and cultures is the Salman Rushdie cheapest way to Chitra Banerjee INDIA Divakaruni travel! Aravind Ariga Let your library card Rohinton Mistry be your passport. Vikram Seth V.S. Naipaul Arundhati Roy Thrity Umrigar Yann Martel Martha DiVittorio [email protected] Bellmore Memorial Library 2288 Bedford Ave. 785-2990 www.bellmorelibrary.org The Lowland (2013) The God of Small Things The Mistress of Spices Jhumpa Lahiri (1997) (1997) Brothers Subhash and Arundhati Roy Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Udayan Mitra pursue vastly In 1969, in Kerala, India, Rahel Tilo, an Indian clairvoyant, different lives--Udayan in and her twin brother, Estha, becomes queen of the pirates rebellion-torn Calcutta, struggle to forge a childhood who kidnapped her for her Subhash in a quiet corner of for themselves amid the de- powers, and she gains immor- America--until a shattering struction of their family life, as tality and the skills of a tragedy compels Subhash to they discover that the entire mistress of spices, which she return to India, where he world can be transformed in a uses to help mortals. endeavors to heal family single moment. wounds. Last Man in Tower (2011) A Fine Balance (1995) Aravind Adiga A Suitable Boy (1993) Rohinton Mistry Refusing to leave his home Vikram Seth A gritty portrait of India told when a powerful real-estate A Hindu family tries to find a through the tales of two tailors, developer offers to buy out the suitable mate for their younger a student, and a widowed residents of a crumbling apart- daughter, and everyone has a seamstress. As the four share ment complex near the different person in mind. their stories, then meals, then infamous Dharavi slums, a living space, human kinship retired schoolteacher prevails and the four become a becomes a target of violence kind of family, despite the lines by the developer and his own of caste, class and religion. neighbors. The Space Between Us Life of Pi (2001) (2006) Midnight’s Children (1981) Yann Martel Thrity Umrigar Salman Rushdie Possessing encyclopedia- Captures the delicate balance Born at the stroke of midnight like intelligence, unusual of class and gender in on August 15, 1947, the exact zookeeper's son Pi Patel contemporary India as moment of India's independ- sets sail for America, but witnessed through the lives of ence, Saleem Sinai becomes when the ship sinks, he two women--Sera Dubash, an inextricably linked to that of his escapes on a life boat and is upper middle-class house- nation and is a whirlwind of lost at sea with a dwin- wife, and Bhima, an illiterate disasters and triumphs that dling number of animals until domestic hardened by a life of mirror modern India's course. only he and a hungry Bengal loss and despair. tiger remain. .