This experimental novel includes aspects of both realism and antirealism, and it mixes several narrative strands using different strategies and varying the point of view from one section of the novel to another. The novel opens with a kind of… Read More ›
A story of racial divisions in South Africa, The Conservationist shared the Booker Prize in 1975 with Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The story, told by a third-person objective narrator, opens with the arrival of Mehring, a successful… Read More ›
Using a third-person omniscient point of view, this four-part novel follows the four siblings of the Das family of Old Delhi. The eldest son is Raja; now living in Hyderabad and married to a Muslim woman, Benazir, he has become… Read More ›
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, and of the Mobil Pegasus Prize and the New Zealand Book Award in 1984, this novel is the first work by a part-Māori New Zealand author to receive international attention and awards. It… Read More ›
A discussion of postcolonial literature must first acknowledge the scope and complexity of the term “postcolonial.” Temporally, the term designates any national literature written after the nation gained independence from a colonizing power. According to this definition, all literature written… Read More ›
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