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Bombay Books
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Shantaram (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as bombay)
avg rating 4.28 — 246,002 ratings — published 2003
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage)
by (shelved 35 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,354 ratings — published 2004
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as bombay)
avg rating 4.38 — 163,493 ratings — published 1995
Family Matters (Vintage International)
by (shelved 12 times as bombay)
avg rating 4.04 — 24,888 ratings — published 2002
Em and The Big Hoom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as bombay)
avg rating 4.20 — 7,981 ratings — published 2012
Narcopolis (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.44 — 8,005 ratings — published 2012
Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,696 ratings — published 2012
Bombay Balchão (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as bombay)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,128 ratings — published
City Adrift : A Short Biography of Bombay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.93 — 383 ratings — published 2013
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.98 — 118,828 ratings — published 2012
Sacred Games (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.93 — 9,086 ratings — published 2006
Such a Long Journey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.96 — 11,737 ratings — published 1991
Milk Teeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,714 ratings — published 2018
The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.93 — 34,780 ratings — published 2018
Bombay, Meri Jaan: Writings on Mumbai (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.93 — 192 ratings — published 2003
Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Women Who Ruled the Ganglands (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.82 — 4,211 ratings — published 2011
The Moor's Last Sigh (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,881 ratings — published 1995
Swimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,643 ratings — published 1987
The Education of Yuri (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bombay)
avg rating 4.13 — 659 ratings — published
Bombay Stories (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 4 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,375 ratings — published 2012
Midnight’s Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.97 — 135,751 ratings — published 1981
Mumbai Fables (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.58 — 416 ratings — published 2010
The Space Between Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as bombay)
avg rating 4.03 — 53,779 ratings — published 2005
The Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,911 ratings — published 2021
Bombay Rains, Bombay Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.37 — 1,345 ratings — published 2013
Byculla to Bangkok (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.79 — 1,737 ratings — published 2014
Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,032 ratings — published 2012
Last Man in Tower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.57 — 8,034 ratings — published 2011
Baumgartner's Bombay (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,006 ratings — published 1989
Serious Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,282 ratings — published 2010
Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,059 ratings — published 2010
Love and Longing in Bombay (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.57 — 2,617 ratings — published 1997
The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,171 ratings — published 2023
The Book of Chocolate Saints (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.68 — 376 ratings — published 2018
Manjhi's Mayhem (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.82 — 274 ratings — published 2022
Bombay Before Mumbai: Essays in Honour of Jim Masselos (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.86 — 28 ratings — published 2019
Murder in Old Bombay (Captain Jim and Lady Diana Mysteries, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,880 ratings — published 2020
The Satapur Moonstone (Perveen Mistry, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,943 ratings — published 2019
Murder in Mahim (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.43 — 623 ratings — published 2017
No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.82 — 707 ratings — published 2017
The Death of Vishnu (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.62 — 9,428 ratings — published 1998
A Walk Across the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 4.16 — 19,678 ratings — published 2011
Ravan & Eddie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.73 — 1,077 ratings — published 1994
The Postcolonial City and its Subjects (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 2011
Saraswati Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.31 — 718 ratings — published 2010
Breathless in Bombay: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.65 — 351 ratings — published 2008
The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as bombay)
avg rating 3.30 — 869 ratings — published 2010
“Agosto é bello starsene a casa con la cittá vuota e nessun rompiballe in giro, magari arrivi che senti la tua solitudine farsi pesante ma é un gioco diverso ed essere soli fa molto piú male in mezzo alla gente, allora sí che é davvero doloroso e pungono le ossa e il respiro é davvero brutto , come vivere un trip scannato e troppo lungo. Ma Agosto é bello starsene soli in cittá, prendere l´auto e girare fino al mattino spingendosi pieni di alcool verso la montagna che tutto é uno scenario disteso e silenzioso e passi col rombo dell´auto come al cinema, uscendo dal quadro un attimo dopo esservi entrato e non si rovina nulla. La via Emilia é la dorsale di questo mio agosto inquieto e torpido, selvatico e morbido. Stasera mi sono messo in macchina lasciando il gigi a sonnechiare, menomale che la faccenda di Bombay é morta lí. Ora non voglio muovermi, soltanto scorrazzare la notte in questa prateria. E la scomessa e´venuta da sé. I bar tra Reggio e Parma, ventuno? No, trentatré.”
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“And just wait until you see how soft and green the countryside is in summer! How gentle and floral, filled with honeysuckles and primroses, narrow laneways and hedgerows...
These foreign words, spoken with a romantic longing that Ada could not understand and did not trust, she had turned over with the dispassionate interest of an archaeologist building a picture of a distant civilization. She had been born in Bombay, and India was as much a part of her as the nose on her face and the freckles that covered it. She didn't recognize words like "soft" and "gentle" and "narrow": her world was vast and sudden and blazing. It was a place of unspeakable beauty- of brilliant flowers on the terrace and sweet swooning fragrance in the dead of night- but also of mercurial cruelty. It was her home.”
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
These foreign words, spoken with a romantic longing that Ada could not understand and did not trust, she had turned over with the dispassionate interest of an archaeologist building a picture of a distant civilization. She had been born in Bombay, and India was as much a part of her as the nose on her face and the freckles that covered it. She didn't recognize words like "soft" and "gentle" and "narrow": her world was vast and sudden and blazing. It was a place of unspeakable beauty- of brilliant flowers on the terrace and sweet swooning fragrance in the dead of night- but also of mercurial cruelty. It was her home.”
― The Clockmaker's Daughter
