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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Geetanjali Shree books in publication order
5 books
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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