Annotated lists of books receiving at least one starred review from one of four major review sources: Booklist, Kirkus, LJ and PW. The review source assigns the star.
(lists of new and notable books - lists are sortable and can be downloaded)
2003
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KirkusBooklist PWPW PWBooklistKirkusBooklistPWLibrary JournalKirkusLibrary JournalBooklist Library JournalPWBooklist PW Author: Chaudhuri, Amit
Title: Freedom Song PWKirkus
In three short novels, readers follow the life experiences of the intimate world of Indian men, women, and children of the middle class living in Calcutta, Bombay, and England.
Author: Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee
Title: Sister of My Heart LJ
From the bestselling author of The Mistress of Spices comes a passionate novel about the extraordinary bond between two sisters and the family secrets, jealousies, and loves that threaten to tear them apart.
KirkusLJ Author: Forbes, Leslie
Title: Bombay Ice Kirkus
Starring "the toughest, most sympathetic heroine since Smilla's Sense of Snow (Harper's Bazaar), this thriller set in exotic India tells the intriguing story of a British journalist whose life is put in jeopardy after a brutal murder.
BLAuthor: Rangel-Riberio, Victor
Title: Tivolem LJBL
Filled with rich, tantalizing detail, gentle humor, and ghosts of a history both international and personal, this warm, sweeping portrait of a small village in a Portuguese colony in India in the 1930s transports readers to a magical place and time gone forever.
Author: Vakil, Ardashir
Title: Beach Boy Kirkus
With the collapse of his parents' marriage and his father's sudden death, the ten-year-old son of a successful shipping broker finds himself caught between the innocence of youth and the responsibilities of adulthood.
PWKirkus Author: Ghosh, Amitav
Title: The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium and Discovery PWLJ
In a near-future New York City, the mysterious reappearance of a lost and battered ID card leads us back in time to 1995 Calcutta--and to the card's enigmatic owner, L. Murugan. A driven eccentric obsessed with the weird coincidences that led to British scientist Ronald Ross' groundbreaking discovery of how humans contract malaria, Murugan has stumbled upon evidence of a powerful unseen society and an impossible experiment in controlled destiny. In doing so, he has opened a Pandora's Box of dark and startling truths that will have momentous consequences for everyone and everything human.
Author: Mistry, Rohinton
Title: A Fine Balance PW
With the compassionate realism of Dickens and a narrative sweep worthy of Balzac, this internationally acclaimed novel draws an unforgettable portrait of the cruelty and corruption, kindness and heroism of India. Set in 1975, A Fine Balance follows the destinies of four strangers who are forced to share a cramped apartment in an unnamed city by the sea.
Author: Roy, Arundhati
Title: The God of Small Things BLPWKirkus
"A banquet for all the senses", said Newsweek of this bestselling and Booker Prize-winning literary novel--a richly textured first book about the tragic decline of one family whose members suffer the terrible consequences of forbidden love.
Prior to 1997 (listed in order of publication, newest at the top)
Author: Rushdie, Salman
Title: The Moor's Last Sigh PWKirkus
Winner of England's prestigious Whitbread Ward, Rushdie's first novel in seven years is a peppery melange of genres: a deliciously inventive family saga; a subversive alternate history of modern India; a fairy tale as inexhaustibly imagined as any in The Arabian Nights; and a book of ideas on topics from art to ethnicity, from religious fanaticism to the terrifying power of love.
Author: Desai, Anita
Title: Journey to Ithaca Kirkus
A spiritual quest takes Sophie and Matteo to India, where Matteo is drawn toward the Mother, a charismatic and mysterious guru. In an effort to reclaim her lover, Sophie embarks on her own journey for the truth about the Mother's past and finds that wisdom is found in the journey itself, not at its destination.
Author: Tharoor, Shashi
Title: Show Business Kirkus
A triumphant new novel about the movie industry by the author of The Great Indian Novel. Tharoor's hero is Ashok Banjara, one of India's mega movie stars, a man of great ambition and dubious morals. Tharoor portrays the Indian film world as a metaphor for Indian society and weaves a tapestry of seduction and betrayal that is colorful--and serious.
Author: Sidhwa, Bapsi
Title: Cracking India Kirkus
Eight-year-old Lenny, spirited daughter of an affluent Parsee family, narrates the story of the breaking of India as she witnesses Muslims, Hindus, Christians, and Sikhs fight for their land and their lives during the dividing of the country into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan in 1947. This 1991 Liberatur Prize winner, NYT Notable Book and ALA Notable nominee is now available in paperback for the first time.
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