Check back every Friday for a new set of five! This week's selection includes Sharmistha Mohanty, Sunjeev Sahota, Manu Joseph, Sudha Murthy and Aparna Karthikeyan.
Five Movements in Praise by Sharmistha Mohanty
The pensive lyrical prose of this five-part novel whisks the reader away to spots across the world from the perspective of insatiable travellers.
The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota
Switching between India and English, and the past and the present, the novel tells the tale of three young men thrown into a house by circumstance, all seeking a new life.
The Illicit Happiness of Other People by Manu Joseph
Set in 1990's Madras, the novel follows a father who receives a comic strip three years after his comics-obsessed son fell from their balcony and sets off to uncover the truth.
Mahashweta by Sudha Murthy
When Anupama's life falls apart after being diagnosed with leukoderma, she returns to her native village until she takes flight to Bombay where she builds a new world.
Nine Rupees an Hour: Disappearing Livelihoods of Tamil Nadu by Aparna Karthikeyan
After navigating her way through numerous streets of Tamil Nadu, Karthikeyan composes ten critical pieces, interspersed with interviews, that sing of dying livelihoods.
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