Geetanjali Shree

An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention, including striking up a friendship with a hijra person, confuses her bohemian daughter, who is used to thinking of herself as the more modern of the two. At...

In this Indian modern classic, roofs are a special place; they are meant for wild things, for romance, and for play. They are realms of freedom—freedom from the male gaze, sexual freedom, and freedom from society. Chachcho and Lalna use their roofs to build a friendship that transcends time and memory. Suddenly one day, Lalna has to leave, to return...

Winner, English PEN x SALT Award 2025 From the International Booker Prize-winning author-translator duo of Tomb of Sand, comes a powerful, kaleidoscopic novel about a fractured India, caught between rising fundamentalism and waning progressive ideals. A city teeters on the edge of chaos. A society lies fractured along fault lines of faith and ideology. A playground becomes a battleground. A...