I haven't tried the read-the-world thing - it sounds like a cool idea to read books from all over, but it's too bad if the one making the list has different taste from yours.
I can think of some books from India I've really enjoyed if you want to try a different one! If you like sprawling family sagas, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, set in India in the 50's, is one of my favorite books, thoughtful and funny and humane and serious all at once - it's just LONG. Like, more than 1000 pages. But so endearing. Midnight's Children, one of Salman Rushdie's earliest books, has more bizarre humor and is also great. Long ago I read Two Virgins by Kamala Markandaya, a novel about two sisters in rural India, and loved it.
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Date: 2016-05-01 11:25 pm (UTC)I can think of some books from India I've really enjoyed if you want to try a different one! If you like sprawling family sagas, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, set in India in the 50's, is one of my favorite books, thoughtful and funny and humane and serious all at once - it's just LONG. Like, more than 1000 pages. But so endearing. Midnight's Children, one of Salman Rushdie's earliest books, has more bizarre humor and is also great. Long ago I read Two Virgins by Kamala Markandaya, a novel about two sisters in rural India, and loved it.