Books like Under the banyan tree by Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Narayan

A Fine Balance is Rohinton Mistry's critically acclaimed second novel, set in India in the mid-1970s and focusing on four unlikely individuals who come together in a city apartment during a state of emergency.

R. K. Narayan’s classic collection of short stories paints a vivid portrait of the imaginary Indian town of Malgudi, capturing everyday life and the quirky characters that populate it.

A woman's rise from poverty to political influence, inspired by stories told by a storyteller's daughter.

A collection of John Wyndham's science-fiction short stories.

Twelve short stories by Tobias Wolff exploring the characters' lives and search for the 'right path'.

793 pages ; 21 cm

Nine imaginative fantasy stories featuring unique imaginary lands, written by experts in the genre, including award-winning author Robin McKinley.

Short stories of life in a Louisiana bayou, featuring the Creole way of life and miscegenation, written by Kate Chopin, a prominent figure in American literature.

A collection of short stories by Irwin Shaw, spanning five decades of writing.

A collection of poignant tales that explore the awkward yet appealing intersection of sex and growing up.

The essential R.K. Narayan. Forty essays, travel pieces, character sketches and short stories from India's greatest living novelist, the majority collected here for the first time. The three sections of the book: 'The Fiction-Writer', 'Short Essays' and 'Malgudi Sketches and Stories' provide a rare glimpse into R.K. Narayan's beginnings as a writer and his evolution into a world-renowned novelist. More importantly, each essay and story is in itself a triumph of Narayan's genius as a close and perceptive observer of the small and ordinary things of life. Finally, taken together, the pieces in this collection (on crowds, films, restaurants, clothes, cats, the English language and school-children among others) give the reader fresh insights into the distinctive aspects of the Indian South which finally achieved immortality in the fictional world of Malgudi.