> > On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 5:59 AM, SK <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I am visiting India now and would like to go back with a bag of great > > books that are harder to find at the likes of Amazon. I realise that > > it is still too early in the year to ask for a "best of 2012" list but > > I am sure the Silkers already have a great list of books to recommend. > > Care to share? > > My 2012 favourites so far:
Jerry Pinto's Em and the Big Hoom Benyamin's Goat Days (Malayalam novel, English translation out this year) Musharraf Ali Farooqi's Between Clay and Dust Kalpish Ratna's Once Upon A Hill And +1 to Udhay's recommendation of The Wildings. I've also heard very good things about some books I haven't yet read -- Manu Joseph's The Illicit Happiness of Other People, Roshi Fernando's collection of short stories called Homesick, and a translation of Ismat Chughtai's memoirs, called "A Life In Words." So far it's definitely been a year to restore faith in fiction. Supriya
