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41) Shantaram
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Polish
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Shantaram to zdumiewająca historia młodego Australijczyka, który porzucony przez żonę znalazł pocieszenie w heroinie. Z czasem zaczął napadać na banki (ubrany zawsze w garnitur okradał tylko ubezpieczone firmy, przez co media zwały go rabusiem-dżentelmenem). Schwytany, skazany na dwadzieścia lat, w biały dzień uciekł z więzienia i przedostał się do Indii. Ukrywał się w slumsach, gdzie leczył biedaków, był żołnierzem bombajskiej...
42) Bombay blues
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Indian American Dimple Lala questions her heart while on a trip to Bombay, on which her boyfriend pushes her away to embark on a spiritual journey, her cousin tests the boundaries of tradition, and her sister opens up about her homosexuality.
44) The other man
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"Heir to his father's Mumbai business empire, Ved Mehra has money, looks, and status. He is also living as a closeted gay man. Thirty-eight, lonely, still reeling from a breakup, and under pressure from his exasperated mother, Ved agrees to an arranged marriage. He regrettably now faces a doomed future with the perfectly lovely Disha Kapoor. Then Ved's world is turned upside down when he meets Carlos Silva, an American on a business trip in India....
46) The blue monsoon
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A ritual murder at a Mumbai temple exposes the city's dark secrets and ravages the personal life of a detective in this sequel to The Blue Bar. Amid incessant rains pounding down on Mumbai, Senior Inspector Arnav Singh Rajput is called to a shocking crime scene. A male body is found dismembered on the steps of a Kaali temple. Drawn into his flesh are symbols of a tantra cult. The desecration of a body at a Hindu place of worship puts the city on edge...
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Polish
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Ram Mohammad Thomas is in a jail cell in Mumbai, arrested on suspicion of cheating after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, "Who will win a billion?". How could a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school win such a contest? But through a series of exhilarating tales, Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question.
50) Bombay stories
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This sometimes shocking collection of short stories about life in mid-20th-century Bombay captures the city's seedy underbelly of prostitutes, pimps and gangsters as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame.
54) Rāja rājananuṃ
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Gujarati
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Novel based on underworld activities in Mumbai, India.
55) Incredible India
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English
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Amber and Jeremy enjoy many interesting and well-known places in India while on a mission for the Secret World Adventure Team to help find a very special creature stolen from a snake charmer.
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Inspector Ghote mysteries volume 13
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English
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Inspector Ghote is sent to California to try to find the daughter of a wealthy Indian businessman who is missing from her college and supposedly living in an ashram headed by a suspect Swami. Ghote intends to discredit the Swami, but ends up investigating his death.
58) Private India
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"When Santosh Wagh isn't struggling out of a bottle of whisky, he's head of Private India, the Mumbai branch of the world's finest PI agency. In a city of over thirteen million, he has his work cut out at the best of times. But now someone is killing women--seemingly unconnected women murdered in a chilling ritual, with strange objects placed carefully at their death scenes. As Santosh and his team race to find the killer, an even greater danger faces...
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"On the day that Hindu nationalists and their controversial leader have won a spectacular election victory, a large apartment building collapses in Mumbai. The rescue operation finds only one survivor, a man trapped under a beam, mumbling in delirium. But what he is saying is that two people are on their way to carry out a terror attack. Not only must they get him out, the police must find out what he knows, and act quickly. A young woman, Akhila...
60) Low
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"Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife's ashes... When Ullis discovers that his wife Aki has committed suicide, he escapes to Bombay with a bag of drugs for one final party. On the plane, he finds himself sitting by a glamorous society lady called Payal, and a friendship of sorts blooms into life. Over the coming days they embark on a...
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