I went through an Indian author phase a few years back- I remember Anita Desai being really good. I think I also read a sort of creepy book by Arundhati Roy (The God of Small Things) that won the Booker Prize.

Also Yukio Mishima, who had kind of wild life and I recall reading and enjoying "Death in Midsummer" for a class in high school.

I'll second linley's rec of Sandra Cisneros! Yay!