Historical Fiction
The Covenant of Water
Across three generations in Kerala, a family shadowed by a mysterious tendency to drown finds its way toward healing through medicine, faith and love.
Asia · 3 books
Books for India
Three very different Indias: Kerala's rivers, a village boy's ambition and a family shaped by water.
Read The Covenant of Water over a long stay: it is made for a houseboat, not a layover.
Literary Fiction
The God of Small Things
In Kerala, twin children live through a single devastating season whose consequences echo across their family for decades.
Literary Fiction
The White Tiger
A village boy turned driver narrates, with dark humour, how he clawed his way out of poverty in a booming, unequal India.