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The end of a century is a mile-stone in the history of a nation and its civilization. The century that has come to an end brought India its independence and hence led to a breaking away from the earlier centre and attempting to find its own identity. The literature of the latter half of the 20 century naturally reflects all these. We chose the last decade because of the interesting variety and number that is seen here.
Though winner of several awards for his novels, Amitav Ghosh has not received the attention that he so well deserves. This volume attempts to fill this Lacuna in critical appreciation of his novels. He has elicited extreme responses of infinite variety. This book attempts to examine the multiple layers of meaning, the complex narrative technique, the continuous time-space shifts, the motifs and metaphors, history and subversion of history, the personal and the ...
Hailed as a 'writer of uncommon elegance and poise', Jyumpa Lahiri blazed a trail of fame with the publication of Interpreter of Maladies-a collection f short stories of Bengal, Boston and Beyond, this collection clearly reveals the 'liminal state' in which expatriate writers and hence most of their characters live. The search for an identity is the 'leitmotif' of this collection. The success of her first book was soon replicated with her first novel The ...