Reading India
A reading list to start with, from Tagore to today.
Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913; his poetry collection Gitanjali was translated into Dutch by Frederik van Eeden. For India after independence, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth are the classics.
Other novels that make a good start: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, and Jhumpa Lahiri's stories about Indian families abroad. If you prefer something short, begin with R.K. Narayan's small-town stories.
Dutch public libraries hold most of these titles, often as e-books or audiobooks too.
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Useful links
- Dutch public libraries bibliotheek.nl
Search the catalogue and become a member (in Dutch). - Online Bibliotheek onlinebibliotheek.nl
Borrow e-books and audiobooks (in Dutch).