Eleven-year-old Gopal and his family leave their rural Indian village for life with his uncle in Mumbai, but when they arrive his father goes missing and Gopal ends up locked in a sweatshop from which there is no escape.

A retelling of one of the Indian fables relating to the former births of Buddha in which as a monkey he manages to outwit the crocodile who decides to capture him.

The orphan Kim, whose father was an Irish soldier, makes his living by begging on the streets of Lahore and running errands. An aged Tibetan Lama is on a journey to find the mythical "River of the Arrow" and in doing so free himself from the Wheel of Things. Becoming his disciple, Kim joins the Lama to travel along the Grand Trunk Road. But Kim also gets himself involved in the Great Game, Russia and Britain's political conflict in Central Asia,

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When British schoolboy Ash Mistry goes to India for a vacation, he quickly falls into a world of rakshasas, or demons, overseen by the evil Lord Alexander Savage.

After hearing a loud sound while out in the woods, Musa is struck with fear, but must find a way out and back to his village.

In this "candid, perceptive and intelligent" trio of novellas, the acclaimed travel writer presents tales of Westerners transformed by sojourns in India (Independent, UK). These three intertwined novellas by the author of The Great Railway Bazaar capture the tumult, ambition, hardship, and serenity that mark today's India. Theroux's Westerners risk venturing far beyond the subcontinent's well-worn paths to discover truth, peace, or woe. A middle-aged...

In India, Raju is angry about spending two months on his aunt and uncle's farm while his family attends a wedding in England, but things looks much brighter after he becomes mother to a newly-hatched chick.

A courageous mongoose thwarts the evil plans of Nag and Nagaina, two big black cobras who live in the garden.

In Chicago in the early 1970s, Francisco's Konkan father, Lawrence, wants desperately to assimilate into American culture-pursuing a corporate job and launching an uphill battle to join the local country club. But Francisco's American mother, Denise, a Peace Corps veteran who finds the suburbs utterly boring, wants to preserve the family's heritage, feeding Francisco's imagination with proud visions of India and Konkan history-with enthusiastic help...