Below are some of the most popular titles attracting readers in 2016.

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta

This book is an excellent inside look at the metropolitan city of Bombay. It talks about the lives of people who come to the city of Bombay in search of a better life, as bar dancers or in Bollywood. The growing rivalries between Muslims and Hindus are also mentioned. The story is compiled with anecdotes from the author’s nostalgic life while he grew up in the metropolis and where he returned after two decades. This sketch of Bombay life is actually a memory of diversity and opulence. The nonfiction narrative is an interesting mix of journaling and travelogue and socio-political analysis about Bombay and its people.

Sea of ​​Poppies by Amitav Ghosh

A celebrated postmodern fiction, the book traces the history of India in the 1830s dominated by the opium trade. It is the saga of a ship called the Ibis, which embarks on a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean just before the opium war breaks out in China. In times of colonial turmoil, fate brings a mixed population of Westerners and Indians on board. From a bankrupt king to a widowed tribal woman, from an American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan who find themselves on a ship leaving their family ties behind. Your historical adventure traverses the poppy fields of the Ganges, the back streets of Canton and the high seas.

Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer by Cyrus Mistry

On the edge of its various separate worlds, the city of Mumbai hides an almost invisible section known as the Parsi body bearers. These people are in charge of taking the corpses to the Towers of Silence. Shunned and cut off from society, they are often poor. From there arises a tragic love story between the son of the Parsi priest, Phiroze Elchidana and the daughter of a body bearer, Sepideh.

The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The epic reimagines the great Indian saga of the Mahabharata told from a woman’s angle. Relevant in today’s war-torn world, this book takes us back to a time that is half myth and half history. You might hear the narration from Panchaali, who is the wife of the legendary Pandava brothers, offering a new insight into ancient history. You can take a close look at Princess Panchaali’s life from the birth of her fire and thereafter, she follows her balancing act between her five husbands and her other relationships.

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