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Song of India

By GAIUTRA BAHADUR (NYT)

A comedy of manners about a musician coming of age in status-conscious 1980s Bombay.

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‘;The Discoverer’

By JAN KJAERSTAD; translated by BARBARA HAVELAND (NYT)

“Behold this man. Behold this man, as he feels three tugs on the rope and slowly, after smiling uncertainly, proceeds to traverse, to edge out onto those dauntingly airy galleries.”