I finished one not long ago that I thought was very good, but I hesitated to recommend it here due to a very frustrating printing error.
Cracking India, by Bapsi Sidhwa, is a novel with autobiographical elements. The novel is about the partitioning of India into Pakistan and India in 1948 (I believe.)
The story is set in Lahore, in a Parsee household, and is told from the perspective of a young girl with a Hindu ayah. In turn, the ayah, a beautiful young woman, has many admirers - Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh. The story follows the extended household as communities are torn apart, Muslim set against Hindu and vice versa.
The movie "Earth," directed by Deepa Mehta, was based on this novel and was what led me to it.
I really loved the novel but in the last 25 pages or so, a printing error caused facing pages to be entirely blank - and the last few pages of the novel were missing entirely! So don't buy a copy unless you can check the pages first.
