A humorous look into the world of India's Parsis chronicles the rise to success of Faredoon--known as Freddy--Junglewalla as he attempts to assassinate his insidious mother-in-law, prevent his son from becoming a holy beggar, and cope with a variety ...
Feroza Ginwalla, a pampered, protected 16-year-old Pakistani girl, is sent to America by her parents, who are alarmed by the fundamentalism overtaking Pakistan  -- and their daughter. Hoping that a few months with her uncle, an MIT grad student, wi...
A New York Times Notable Book: A girl’s happy home life is suddenly disrupted by the 1947 Partition of India in this “multifaceted jewel of a novel” (Houston Chronicle).Young Lenny Sethi is kept out of school because she suffers from polio. She...
A Pakistani teenager is trapped by tradition in this tale by “Pakistan’s finest English-language novelist” (New York Times).Wild, austere, and magnificently beautiful, the territories of northern Pakistan are a forbidding place, particularly fo...