Tabish Khair

• Jan-2004
• / General Fiction
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A very angry bus driver, abandoned by his wife and going nowhere in his career; a sanctimonious conductor; a hijra, or eunuch, a remnant of India's Muslim glory days; a nervous, half-Indian businessman clutching a briefcase-full of cash; a right-wing...

• Jul-2007
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Set primarily in India and spanning the twentieth century, Filming tells a series of stories, including that of one-time whore, Durga, who is persuaded to give away her young son, Ashok, and that of Saleem, the son of a whore and two-time star of the...

• Jul-2012
• / Literary
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A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian man’s misadventures in Victorian London as the city is racked by a series of murders In a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research bac...

• Sep-2013
• / Literary
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A HILARIOUS, SATIRICAL NOVEL FROM AWARD-WINNING INDIAN WRITER. Funny and sad, satirical and humane, this novel tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men whose trajectories cross in Denmark: the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim...

• Sep-2016
• / Literary
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A novel about friendship, faith, and alienation, Just Another Jihadi Jane tells the tale of Islamist radicalization from the inside. Two children of Muslim immigrants in England's industrial north--thoughtful Jamilla and rebellious Ameena--become ...

• May-2018
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Pragmatic entrepreneur Anil Mehrotra has set up his thriving business empire with the help of his lieutenant, Ahmed, an older man who is different in more ways than one. Quiet and undemanding, Ahmed talks in aphorisms, bothers no one, and always gets...

• Jun-2022
• / Dystopian
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A novel of suspense and intrigue set in the post-pandemic world Harris Maloub, a killer with an erased official past, now in his fifties, is visited by someone who could not be alive and given an assignment. In Aarhus, Denmark, Jens Erik, police offi...

• Jul-2023
• / General Fiction
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A collection of other stories from shining India—those not often told.The short story “Namaste Trump” starts in a deceptive domestic setting, where a servant from the hinterlands is patronized and exploited by an upwardly mobile urb...