Stephen Alter, Author . Harcourt $25 (384p) ISBN 978-0-15-100585-7
In his latest travel memoir, Alter (Amritsar to Lahore) tracks the inexorable path of "progress" and various human responses to it. Progress is embodied in the roads and new dams that exist where before there were only footpaths for Hindus...
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Stephen Alter, Author . Harcourt $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-15-100646-5
Alter (Sacred Waters
), a writer-in-residence at MIT, was born and raised in India, and in 2001 and 2002 he traveled to various parts of that country, observing elephants roaming wild in national parks and sanctuaries and in captivity in forest...
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Stephen Alter, Author . Bloomsbury $16.95 (210p) ISBN 978-1-58234-738-7
Once you've seen a ghost, everything around you looks a little bit different." Readers will feel like they have in fact seen ghosts thanks to a clever design trick that helps to elevate Alter's memorable ghost story, his first book for...
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Stephen Alter, Author . Harcourt/Harvest $15 (260p) ISBN 978-0-15-603084-7
I
ndian cinema goes by the shorthand Bollywood, which refers to Hindi-language films produced in Mumbai (formerly Bombay). The style of filmmaking is distinct—elaborate plots, lots of song and dance and colorful costumes. It's got its own
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Stephen Alter, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5158-2
As a boy, Alter visited the Taj Mahal by moonlight, kept homing pigeons as pets, observed cremations along the Ganges and toured Himalayan valleys and peaks, speaking a mixture of Hindi and English. Born in 1956 to American Presbyterian missionaries
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Stephen Alter, Author Trafalgar Square Publishing $19.95 (161p) ISBN 978-0-233-97963-2
Alter, the son and grandson of American missionaries, approaches India from a unique perspective, and his ambivalence about his adopted country is evident in this brooding third novel ( Neglected Lives ; Silk and Steel ). Adopted as an infant by...
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Stephen Alter. Arcade, $25.99 (342p) ISBN 978-1-62872-651-0
In Alter’s busy sequel to 2016’s The Rataban Betrayal, Col. Imtiaz Afridi, an Indian intelligence officer, is patient and thorough in his pursuit of a Pakistani warlord known only as Guldaar through the United States, India, and Pakistan. Guldaar (wh
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