Raj Fiction with Photography Theme

Fiction where a photographer or story of a photographer is a major theme in the story.

Straight to the Heart

Straight to the Heart
Author: Roberta Llewellyn
Publisher: Outskirts Press, Littleton, Colorado, US (2007)

Percy, an African-American Vietnam veteran, is a photographer, who becomes romantically involved with Sarah, a mature, passionate woman living in the Bay Area.Read more

Voices in the Gompa

Author: Paco Taylor
Publisher: A Ho'o Mai Teie Puta Taioro Ma Editions (1985)

Novel about a photographer who visits a lamasery, or gompa, in Ladakh (northern India) to take pictures of sacred frescoes. There is a snowstorm, and he is stuck there the whole winter.Read more

Filming: A Love Story

Filming: A Love Story
Author: Tabish Khair
Publisher: Macmillan UK (2009)
Binding: Paperback, 400 pages

Set primarily in India and spanning the 20th century, Filming tells a series of stories, including that of one-time prostitute Durga, who is persuaded to give away her young son, Ashok, and that of Saleem, the son of a prostitute and two-times star of the silver screen. As these stories intertwine and overlap, they combine to create a novel that is simultaneously about the small details and the bigger picture,Read more

Train to Pakistan

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By Khushwant Singh, Margaret Bourke-White (Photographer) and Pramod Kapoor (Concept). Roli Books, Delhi, 2007.

This unique illustrated edition of a novel first published soon after India’s independence includes previously unpublished pictures by internationally acclaimed photographer Margaret Bourke-White.Read more

Siddharta

Siddharta
Will McBride
Paris: Contrejour, 1982

Photography book inspired by Herman Hesse's novel Siddhartha, with 98 pages of beautiful colour photography exploring the everyday, erotic and spiritual aspects of India, and accompanying text in French. The same year it was also published in German by a German publisher.Read more

Looking Through Glass

Author: Mukul Kesavan
Publisher: Chatto & Windus (1995)
Binding: Hardcover, 374 pages

A first novel about an ambitious young photographer who is suddenly transported back to India in 1942, where he journeys through Muslim neighbourhoods, Hindu wrestling academies and splendid colonial enclaves, and meets a change-mongering nationalist, a pioneering pornographer, and his own grandmother.

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