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Interview with Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day
In her debut novel, Preeta Samarasan tells the story of both one ethnic Indian family and the whole country of Malaysia, reminding us that History is the individual people it happens to. This is a tale...
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Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger wins Booker Prize
The White Tiger is 33-year-old Adiga’s first book, and one judge praised it as “the perfect novel.” Plot summary from BBC: “…a tale of two Indias…the story of Balram, the son of a rickshaw puller in...
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In the Convent of Little Flowers, by Indu Sundaresan
Indu Sundaresan’s fourth book and first story collection, In the Convent of Little Flowers (Simon & Schuster, 2008), contains India’s multitudes, all in relationships of opposition – men vs. women,...
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Interview with Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga / copyright: Mark Pringle About Aravind Adiga Before his first novel, The White Tiger, debuted in 2008, Aravind Adiga had already had a substantial career as a journalist, writing for the...
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[Reviewlet] Quarantine, by Rahul Mehta
In his debut publication, Rahul Mehta confounds reader preconceptions. Mehta’s short story collection, Quarantine, features a cast of homosexual Indian-American men. The book artfully interweaves...
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[Reviewlet] The Artist of Disappearance, by Anita Desai
Until recently, we have lived in an age of exceptionalism. Idols and Stars and the Talented, voted into fame by a nation of cell-wielding aspirants. But the tide has shifted. Ninety-nine percent no...
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The Newlyweds, by Nell Freudenberger
The cover of Nell Freudenberger’s third book, The Newlyweds, is clean and simple. The heads of two birds, a red cardinal and a yellow finch, realistically drawn, face each other on a cream background....
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The Garden of Evening Mists, by Tan Twan Eng
In Tan Twan Eng’s new novel The Garden of Evening Mists (Weinstein Books), Yun Ling is quickly losing her memory. In an effort to “dance with the music of words, for one more time,” and to remember her...
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[Reviewlet] The Beach at Galle Road, by Joanna Luloff
Joanna Luloff’s debut collection, The Beach at Galle Road (Algonquin), meticulously avoids the fighting in its depiction of wartime Sri Lanka. Students, teachers, innkeepers, and a few foreign...
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