I am a big fan of Librarything.com, and particularly their Early Reviewer program. I have found quite a few good, new or at least new-to-me, authors and books that way. Most recently I was introduced to Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch. It's called Rivers of London in the UK. OMG, where to start! Okay, first it's a mash-up of genres, which is a ( Read more... )

x-posted, because I am desperate to find someone else to talk to about this book.  From my limited knowledge of the cultures in question, this looks to be a successful case of "writing the other," and I am extremely interested to hear what folks who are more knowledgeable than I have to say about it.
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I saw this book on the Dabwaha site as one of ( Read more... )

So several of the Desi folks commenting on the Global Represent thread have mentioned reading genre fiction in Bengali. Who are the authors you recommend? What's been translated to English or other languages?