The Novelist Extraordinary
Arundhati Roy has emerged as the most significant novelist on the contemporary literary scene. Perhaps no other Indian writer has reached in so many parts of the world and won such enthusi• astic response. Her novel The God of Small Things, the Booker Award winner, has been hailed as a modern classic. The novel has such a rich texture that it is eminently amenable to multiple ap• proaches and interpretations. It is therefore both interesting and rewarding to observe how readers situated in the wider world have responded to the novel. Eminent scholars—from America, Canada, England, Germany, Italy, Finland, Australia, Sri Lanka, and all parts of India—have contributed to the richness and variety of the present volume.
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The Novels of Amitav Ghosh: Critical Studies R.K. Dhawan, ed. ISBN: 81-7551-011-0 1999 Rs. 500, S 25
History-Fiction Interface: Mulk Raj Anand, Nayantara Sahgal, Salman Rushdie, Shashi Tharoor & O.V. Vijayan T.N. Dhar ISBN: 81-7551-059-5 1999 Rs. 500, $ 25
Patterns of Feminist Consciousness in Indian Women Writers Anuradha Roy ISBN: 81-7551-064-1 1999 Rs. 400, $ 20
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