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Australia's Books and Arts Daily - http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily [|@RNBooksAndArts] https://www.facebook.com/ABCRNBooksandArts - asked listeners to choose their fave novels from the Subcontinent and this is [|the list] as voted by listeners. http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/features/subcontinent-book-club/

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[|Subcontinent Book Club: The God of Small Things] Spanish translation: //[|El dios de las pequeñas cosas] // [] [] [] []
 * FEBRUARY: Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (1997)**

"The Kathakali Man is the most beautiful of men. Because his body is his soul. His only instrument. From the age of three it has been planed and polished, pared down, harnessed wholly to the task of storytelling. He has magic in him, this man within the painted mask and swirling skins ... In despair, he turns to tourism. He enters the market. He hawks the only thing he owns. The stories that his body can tell. He becomes a regional flavor."

Spanish translation: Un Perfecto Equilibrio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fine_Balance http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/A-Fine-Balance http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/aug/17/summer-reading-fine-balance-rohinton-mistry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1FNTaYt8zI [|Subcontinent Bookclub: Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance] A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry tells the complex story of India's 'emergency' through the lives of a whole series of intertwined characters, brought together and driven apart by changing economic circumstances, politics, class and caste, and violence.
 * MARCH: Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (1995) **

The White Tiger was Aravind Adiga's debut novel and won the 2008 Booker prize. It's a satire on modern India. [|Subcontinent Book Club: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Tiger https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aravind_Adiga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX81ib2L5Sk
 * APRIL: Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger (2008)**

[|Subcontinent Book Club: The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh] The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh is a sprawling historical novel, which begins in Burma in the late 19th century and tells the story of Rajkumar Raha and his family. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Palace http://www.amitavghosh.com/glasspalace.html https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/02/11/reviews/010211.11mishrat.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amitav_Ghosh
 * MAY: Amitav Ghosh, The Glass Palace (2000)**

[|Subcontinent Book Club: V S Naipaul's A House for Mr Biswas] This 1961 novel of the Indian community in Trinidad established V S Naipaul as a major writer whose character, Mr Biswas, defies poverty and luck as he holds onto his house and all it means to him. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_House_for_Mr_Biswas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._S._Naipaul
 * JUNE: V S Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas (1961)**

[|Subcontinent Book Club: Kiran Desai's Inheritance of Loss] - The Inheritance of Loss is the novel for which Kiran Desai was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 2006. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inheritance_of_Loss [|Kiran Desai]
 * JULY: Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (2006)**

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http://www.theguardian.com/books/australia-culture-blog/2013/jun/17/questions-travel-michelle-de-kretser-review http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandarts/books-and-arts-28-august-2015/6659288 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Questions_of_Travel
 * AUGUST: Michelle de Kretser, Questions of Travel (2012)**

[|Subcontinent Bookclub: Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia] - This 1990 novel of London and music and sex and cosmopolitanism blasted off the page with its take on being young, from Pakistan, and wanting the world to change. [|Subcontinent Bookclub: Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Buddha_of_Suburbia_(novel) http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/302998.The_Buddha_of_Suburbia
 * SEPTEMBER: Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia (1990)**

[|Subcontinent Book Club: Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy] - Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy is an epic tale of family life and politics, centring around Mrs Rupa Mehra's search for a suitable boy for her young daughter to marry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Suitable_Boy [|Vikram Seth]
 * OCTOBER: Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy (1993)**

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malgudi_Days_(book)
 * NOVEMBER: RK Narayan, Malgudi Days (1942)**

[|Subcontinent Book Club: R. K. Narayan's Malgudi Days]
 R. K. Narayan's short story collection Malgudi Daysportrays a wonderful array of characters from the imaginary city of Malgudi, taking the reader deep inside southern Indian life. Tell us what you think of this month's book in our Subcontinent Book Club!

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Midnight%27s_Children
 * DECEMBER: Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children (1980)**

[|Subcontinent Bookclub: Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children]
 Rushdie's magical novel, of the character and the country born at midnight on 15 August 1947, is the final in RN's year long exploration of the literature of India and its diaspora.

Elsewhere on the Web
http://scroll.in/article/704956/Five-must-read-travel-books-about-India

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Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns Kiran Nagarkar, Dickens of Mumbai R.K. Narayan Neel Mukherjee's The Lives of Others Upamanyu Chatterjee, English August, The Last Burden Timeri N Murari, The Taliban Cricket Club Rana Dasgupta - Solo (2009) Vikram Chandra - Geek Sublime (2014); Sacred Games (2006) Kiran Desai Aravind Adiga

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