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Geetanjali Shree Books in Order

Explore Geetanjali Shree books in order, with short summaries and a guide to the series and standalone titles to help you choose where to start reading.

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Mai

by Geetanjali Shree

1993

In a north Indian household spanning three generations, a quiet mother stands at the center of competing expectations. Her children want to free her from patriarchal constraints, but their efforts reveal how little they understand her choices and strength.

The Empty Space

by Geetanjali Shree

2006

After a university café bombing kills nineteen students, a bereaved mother brings home both her son’s remains and a surviving three-year-old boy. Their intertwined lives explore how memory, grief and identity persist in the space violence leaves behind.

The Roof Beneath their Feet

by Geetanjali Shree

2013

Two women form a close friendship within a housing complex linked by shared rooftops, provoking discomfort and gossip among their neighbors. After separation and death, a nephew pieces together their histories and confronts unsettling questions about his own origins.

Our City That Year

by Geetanjali Shree

2025

As communal tensions escalate in an Indian city, Shruti, Hanif and Sharad struggle to maintain relationships and ordinary life. Their experiences reveal a society approaching rupture, where growing extremism and suspicion threaten bonds that once seemed secure.

Tomb of Sand

by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell

An elderly widow in northern India emerges from grief with a new determination to live on her own terms. Her insistence on traveling to Pakistan confronts her family with unresolved memories of Partition and challenges boundaries of nation, gender, and generation.

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Standalone Geetanjali Shree books

  1. Book cover for "Mai"

    Mai

    by Geetanjali Shree

    1993Silently Mother
  2. Book cover for "The Empty Space"

    The Empty Space

    by Geetanjali Shree

    2006
  3. Book cover for "The Roof Beneath their Feet"

    The Roof Beneath their Feet

    by Geetanjali Shree

    2013
  4. Book cover for "Our City That Year"

    Our City That Year

    by Geetanjali Shree

    2025
  5. Book cover for "Tomb of Sand"

    Tomb of Sand

    by Geetanjali Shree and translated by Daisy Rockwell

    Publication date unknown

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