The Namesake is a novel published in 2003 by Indian-British-American writer Jhumpa Lahiri. It deals with the life experience of a migrant family to the US and follows their emotional journey over two generations, as they navigate the ups and down of the migrant experience. Each character has a different perspective on the reality of their new life in America.
Though the novel Picnic at Hanging Rock was published in 1967, the story is set in 1900. This is a point in time where historically nineteenth century Victorian values have not totally veered into twentieth century modernity. This, even though the novel is set in Australia, where colonial ideology and ....................
Far From the Madding Crowd was published in 1874. Thomas Hardy is famous for being the inventor of Wessex, an imaginary territory closely modelled on the South Western counties, where most of his fiction is set. The world of Thomas Hardy is the world of British peasantry. But far from being a world ..............
Pride and Prejudice is probably the most well-known of all Jane Austen’s novels and probably the one book for which there have been the most book and screen adaptations. The story of Elisabeth Bennet’s stormy confrontation with Fitzwilliam Darcy constitutes an interesting narrative through which the.............
Anita Desai is an internationally recognized Indian-English writer, with many prizes and awards to her credit. Her writing oscillates between lyrical poetic sensitivity and austere uncompromising starkness, in her critical vision of the character she puts under fictional scrutiny. The world she writes about are closely aligned to her own...
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier was published in 1938. It is often classified as a Gothic romance. It is this, as well as a study of Upper Class British society at the cusp of social transformation. Critics have identified intertextual references in the very structure of the novel, namely with echoes of Jane Eyre, Cinderella and...........
Evelyn Waugh (1903-1968) was an English writer from the upper class of British society. While the trend in English literature at the time was arching towards understanding the consciousness of the newly visibe urban population, Evelyn Waugh wrote about the world he knew- the English gentry- chronicling...........
Jean Rhys (1890-1979) was a native of the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. Her family was among those who could be considered the privileged of the newly created post-plantation republic. Though not exactly from the privileged plantation family, with her parentage being a Welsh doctor on the one hand............
The Inheritance of Loss was published in 2006. As a novel, situates itself at the conjunction of the postcolonial and the diasporic novel. Holding the narrative together is the central story of Judge Jemubhai Patel and his tense, reluctant relationship with his granddaughter Sai, whom he is forced to take into hisitrary.....
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