Prepare to enter a world where the norms of human behavior -- even the rules governing time and gravity -- are set on their heads. This dark and wry fable begins with the narrator waking up and discovering he is missing an arm. He has no idea how he ...
"Here childhood innocence and dreams meet the reality of day-to-day survival and violence, during Hindu-Muslim riots, forcing choices that should never have to be made. Irani (The Cripple and His Talismans, 2005) is a gifted storyteller, and this boo...
With an inimitable mix of earthy humour and searing tragedy, bestselling author Anosh Irani gives us his most ambitious novel yet. Zairos is a dissolute young landowner's son living in the town of Dahanu, just outside Bombay, when his life of care...
Finalist for the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and for the Governor General's Literary Award, this powerful new work, about a transgender sex worker in the red-light district of Bombay who is given an unexpected task, is a gripping literary ...
In The Matka King -- a story that pits human nature against love and chance -- a landscape of betrayal and redemption comes to life in the red-light district of Bombay, India. One very powerful eunuch, Top Rani, operates an illicit lottery through hi...