Brians, Paul

Modern South Asian literature in English/ by Paul Brians. - Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003. - vi, 247 p. ; 25 cm. - Literature as windows to world cultures; .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The fiction of Rabindranath Tagore: Quartet (1915) -- Raja Rao: Kanthapura (1938) -- Khushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan (1956) -- R.K. Narayan: The guide (1958) -- Attia Hosain: Sunlight on a broken column (1961) -- Anita Desai: Games at twilight (1978) -- Bapsi Sidhwa: Cracking India (1988) -- Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine (1989) -- Salman Rushdie: East, West (1994) -- Shyam Selvadurai: Funny boy (1994) -- Rohinton Mistry: A fine balance (1996) -- Arundhati Roy: The god of small things (1997) -- Michael Ondaatje: Anil's ghost (2000) -- Jhumpa Lahiri: Interpreter of maladies (2000) -- Manil Suri: The death of Vishnu (2001).

031332011X (alk. paper)


Indic literature (English)--History and criticism.
South Asian literature (English)--History and criticism.

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