South Asia

Dazzling new short stories from Salman Rushdie that transport us around the world from Bombay neighbourhoods to elite English universities, in his first new fiction since Victory CityIf old age was...

Translated by Rijula Das A hilarious and absurdist take on the political landscape of West Bengal, India. Beggar’s Bedlam is a surreal novel that unleashes the chaos of the carnival...

Winner of the 2023 FICCI India Book of the Year award — a powerful, magical indigenous novel from Nagaland, India's foremost writer. Drawing on ancient tribal tales, Spirit Nights tells...

A prizewinning literary epic of the subcontinent, nature, climate and love. ** The phenomenal Indian bestseller ****Winner of the Tata Lit Live Best First Book of the Year Award **...

**New York Times bestseller** A Guardian / Observer Book of the Year When powerful real-estate tycoon Nero Golden immigrates to the States under mysterious circumstances, he and his three adult...

Reissued to mark the 40th anniversary of Rushdie's masterpiece, this edition carries a new introduction written for the occasion Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of...

The debut novel from one of the National Book Foundation's 2018 5 Under 35 Ada has always been unusual. Her parents prayed her into existence, but something must have gone...

The epic tale of a woman who breathes a fantastical empire into existence, only to be consumed by it over the centuries — from the transcendent imagination of Booker Prize-winning,...

In a city swollen by refugees and bubbling with civil unrest, two young people fall in love. Their homeland is on the brink of war. One day soon they must...

Translated by Haydn Trowell Yūka Ishii’s debut novel The Mud of a Century was a major literary success in Japan where it won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize. Several days after...