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Video: Stories by Meera Nair [in AsianWeek]

18 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American

VideoDebut collection filled with diverse, disturbing, haunting, entertaining miniatures of Indian and Indian American life. Review: "New and Notable Fiction," AsianWeek, July 18, 2002 Readers: Adult Published: 2002...

Robi Dobi: The Marvelous Adventures of an Indian Elephant by Madhur Jaffrey, illustrated by Amanda Hall [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Aug, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost

Robi DobiFrom traditional Indian folklore, Jaffrey reinvents and creates an entertaining tale of the faraway travels and adventures of a helpful elephant and the many friends he makes along the way. Review: "Young Reads,"...

The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Death of VishnuThe best of the latest crop of South Asian diaspora titles is The Death of Vishnu, a startling debut novel, the first of a planned trilogy by math professor Manil...

Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American, Young Adult Readers

MotherlandAnother debut, Motherland tells the coming-of-age story of 15-year-old Maya. Afraid that she has become too Americanized growing up in New York, Maya's parents ship her off for the summer to the remote, mountaintop home of...

The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Myanmarese (Burmese), Repost, South Asian, South Asian American, Southeast Asian

Glass PalaceA startlingly complex novel, The Glass Palace opens with a literal bang, as British cannons thunder over the noise of a busy Burmese marketplace in 1885. A historical work that sweeps over a century...

Amriika by M.G. Vassanji [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Canadian Asian Pacific American, Fiction, Indian African, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American

AmriikaThe premise of this disappointing novel revolves around Ramji, who, by the time he arrives in the U.S. in 1968 from his home in Dar es Salaam, East Africa (now Tanzania), he is already doubly displaced....

The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni [in aMagazine: Inside Asian America]

01 Jun, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian American

Unknown Errors of Our LivesThank goodness for reliable standbys: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's latest is a wonderful short story collection that deals poignantly, patiently, remarkably with the ten­sions between old world...

Diamond Dust by Anita Desai [in aOnline]

05 Jul, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, British Asian, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian, South Asian American

Diamond DustA word of advice: Don’t read The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (which just won the Pulitzer for fiction) at the same time as Anita Desai’s new collection of short stories, Diamond Dust....

How to Know God: The Soul’s Journey into the Mystery of Mysteries by Deepak Chopra + Author Interview [in aOnline]

15 May, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Author Interview/Profile, Indian American, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian American

How to Know GodThe Divine Dr. Deepak Chopra Named by Time Magazine as one of their 100 heroes and icons of the century, earning him the title of “the poet-prophet of alternative medicine,” Dr....

Ashok by Any Other Name by Sandra S. Yamate, illustrated by Janice Tohinaka [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

04 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Indian American, Japanese American, Repost, South Asian American

Ashok by Any Other NameAshok, a young Indian American boy, wishes he had a more "American" name. So each day, Ashok tries a new moniker, from Tom to Walter to Frances, until...

Fat Gopal by Jacquelin Singh, illustrated by Demi [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

04 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Children/Picture Books, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost

Fat GopalThe ruling Nawab requests the Maharajah to do an impossible task: to measure the earth and to count the stars, the sun’s rays, and the men on the moon. The Majarajah’s servant, Fat Gopal,...

Gay-Neck: The Story of a Pigeon by Dhan Gopal Mukerji, illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

03 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Gay-NeckGay-Neck, an especially talented pigeon, is the pride of his owner, a young Indian boy from Calcutta. The bird spends a summer in the Himalayan mountains, honing his skills, and eventually proves to be a hero...

Bombay Talkie by Ameena Meer [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

Bombay TalkieIndependent, headstrong Sabah heads to India in search of her ethnic identity. What she finds in the wealthy world of her Indian relatives is a liberal Westernized culture bound by strict traditions, where the...

A River Sutra by Gita Mehta [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian, Indian American, Repost, South Asian, South Asian American

River SutraA retired civil servant living along the holy Narmada River whose banks are believed to contain 400 billion sacred places, comes into contact with numerous travelers and their mesmerizing stories, including an ascetic monk...

Arranged Marriage: Stories by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian American

Arranged MarriageA collection of 11 short stories about young Indian and Indian American women, some married, some single, in various stages of claiming independence from their well-meaning but suffocating families and their oppressive patriarchal heritage....

House of Waiting by Marina Tamar Budhos [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Caribbean American, Fiction, Indian American, Jewish, Repost, South Asian American

House of WaitingSarah, a young and naive New York Jew, impulsively marries Roland, an Indian immigrant from the Caribbean. Months after the wedding, Roland returns to his native Guiana, embroiled in its political turmoil....

Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse by Vikram Seth [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Indian American, Nonethnic-specific, Poetry, Repost, South Asian American, Verse Novel/Nonfiction

Golden GateA novel written entirely in verse, about the machinations of love in the modern age. John’s lonely, so Jan secretly runs a personal ad on his behalf. John finds Liz. Recently divorced Phil ends...

Love, Stars, and All That by Kirin Narayan [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American

Love, Stars and All ThatA delightful novel that follows immigrant graduate student Gita through her bumpy search for her ideal mate. In Chaitra 2040 – that is, March 1984 for the rest...

The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, Short Stories, South Asian American

Middleman and Other StoriesThe acclaimed winner of the 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award, Mukherjee's collection features displaced, diverse Americans, from a troubled Vietnam vet to an Iraqi Jew from Queens...

Jasmine by Bharati Mukherjee [in What Do I Read Next? Multicultural Literature]

02 Mar, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Adult Readers, Fiction, Indian American, Repost, South Asian American

JasmineBorn Jyoti, meaning "light," in a small Indian village, she is renamed Jasmine by her husband. Suddenly widowed at 17, Jasmine escapes to America where she begins an odyssey through the country, eventually landing in Iowa...

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