October Indian fiction: Bring in the festive season with these six new novels
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All Our Evenings, Ruthvika Rao
In 1990s Hyderabad, three teenagers – Arjun, Ruhee and Ganesh – forge an unexpected bond. Over the course of a single sun-drenched summer, they discover love, friendship and solace from their troubled families. They also discover the Red House, an abandoned house in their neighbourhood, which becomes the site of their intimate friendship. But one night at the Red House, an unexpected act of violence shatters their lives forever.
A decade later, Ruhee returns to Hyderabad, and Arjun, who has never forgotten his first love, is given a chance to tell the truth, both to himself and to those around him. But the tangled threads of fate, class and desire remain, as does a lacerating secret.
Zone, Manjula Padmanabhan
Meiji is the only young woman to have survived the brutal decimation of all women and girls of her birth-culture. In this thrilling end to her saga, begun in Escape and continued in The Island of Lost Girls, we follow Meiji’s trajectory across the Zone, the name given to the continent we call Africa today, in the lawless future in which these novels are set.
Meiji faces sentencing for losing control of the giant flying lizard named Smaug, on whose back she was riding when it went...