Contemporary fiction books from India
Recommended contemporary fiction books (21)
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If you are into contemporary fiction here are some contemporary fiction books from India for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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The Watch by Joydeep Roy-Bhattacharya EN
Description:
This heartbreaking and haunting novel takes a timeless tragedy and hurls it into present-day Afghanistan, when a woman asks for the return of her brother's body in the midst of a war. Following a desperate night-long battle, a group of beleaguered soldiers in an isolated base in Kandahar are faced with a lone woman demanding the return of her brother’s body. Is she a spy, a black widow, a lunatic, or is she what she claims to be: a grieving young sister intent on burying her brother according to local rites? Single-minded in her mission, she refuses to move from her spot on the field in full v... continue