Item 2403777Friend of My Youth
Faber, 2017. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Flat-signed to title page. Part novel, part autobiography from this acclaimed Anglo-Indian writer. .
Fiction by writers of Indian heritage or fiction about India
Faber, 2017. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Flat-signed to title page. Part novel, part autobiography from this acclaimed Anglo-Indian writer. .
Maclehose/Quercus 2008, 2008. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Multiple award-winning first novel from this acclaimed Indian writer. .
Atlantic, 2011. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. From the Booker prize winner comes a rich tapestry of people, life and culture in Mumbai. A funny, rewarding and engrossing read. There is some tanning/sun banding to text block edges.
Harper Collins & India Today, 2008. Edition: 1st Indian, 2nd printing. Book Condition: Fine. Stunning debut novel which won the Booker prize in 2008. This book was issued before that indication. Rare in this format. The stitching is showing a little to first few pages but intact. There is slight.....
4th Estate, 2006. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression, signed. Book Condition: Near mint. Signed and dated to the title page. Dated 2 May 2006, date of first publication. This book is largely written in the unique urban patois of the 'desis' - a group of South Asian youths of various.....
London: Hamish Hamilton, 2006. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. The 2006 Booker prizewinner from Desai dealing with the eternal issues of identity, multiculturalism and conflict. This book is as new and appears unread. text block very clean with binding tight and firm. Jacket is fine.
Faber, 2002. Edition: 1st UK, 3rd impression. Book Condition: Fine. Signed by author to title page. Superbly comic yet vastly human account of a family getting to grips with their father's advancing illness set in the (then) tense and simmering Bombay of Shiv Sena. You will never accept DIY help from.....
Faber, 2002. Edition: 1st UK, 3rd impression. Book Condition: Very good. Superbly comic yet vastly human account of a family getting to grips with their father's advancing illness set in the then tense and simmering Bombay of Shiv Sena. You will never accept DIY help from your neighbour again... There.....
McClelland and Stewart, 1995. Edition: 1st Canadian, 1st impression, signed. Book Condition: Very good. Flat-signed without dedication to the title page. A titan of a novel at 750 pages, this masterpiece weaves together the lives of four disparate people in Indira Gandhi's 1970s emergency Bombay, as was. The plotting and.....
Faber, 2001. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Again, Mistry skilfully weaves the micro story of a Bombay family into a macro background of war and the creation of Bangladesh. Has publisher Faber's review slip and press release, both dated 4 March 1991. There is slight tanning to.....
John Murray, 1965. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression, signed. Book Condition: Fine. Signed and dedicated by the author to front end paper. An early novel, and interesting character study in middle-class mores in 1960s Delhi. The author presents a very mixed cast of Indian and European characters. The jacket is price-clipped;.....
John Murray, 1975. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. 1975 Booker Prize winner and eponymous 1983 film. Jhabvala presents an India of contrasts in her cleverly constructed account of a young woman's quest to discover the truth about her grandfather under the Raj. A nice copy with.....
Jonathan Cape, 1994. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. A theme of 'doubleness' runs through this collection of Rushdie's short storiesbut Rushdie manages to reconcile and celebrate his hybrid worlds.
Jonathan Cape, 1995. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. A very clean copy of Rushdie's wide-ranging Indian saga.
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Prize-winning debut from Indian author, compared variously to Rushdie and Seth. This book appears to be unread and is fine in both the jacket and the book. .
Harvill Secker, 2021. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression, signed. Book Condition: Fine. Flat-signed by author to title page. Chosen as one of Granta magazine's Best of Young British Novelists, Sahota is based in the UK but writes about India in this inter generational tale of addiction, racism and estrangement. A.....
André Deutsch, 1961. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Often placed among the best 100 novels in English of the twentieth century this novel deals deftly with post-colonialism in Trinidad from an unusual Indo-Caribbean perspective. It is Naipul's best and most cherished work. The cover art here.....
André Deutsch, 1957. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. This story of Ganesh, a Trinidadian of Hindu descent like Naipaul, was the author's first novel and is the comic rags-to-riches tale of the masseur with magical powers. The binding is loose to latter half of book (although not.....
Mulholland/Hodder, 2015. Edition: 1st UK, 10th impression, signed. Book Condition: Fine. Signed and dedicated to "Keith, with best wishes and what a great cover", so maybe an association copy given to designer. Fresh, atmospheric and colourful, Khan is maybe the Indian McCall Smith, and he relishes the task. There is.....