It takes twelve-year-old Kevin, and the mumbled confession he overhears from his ailing grandmother, to set in motion a journey into the unknown to discover the truth.

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Meaning only to avoid punishment, he causes the death of his father and the dissolution of his family.

Arundhati Roy’s Booker Prize-winning novel was the literary sensation of the 1990s: a story anchored to anguish but fuelled by wit and magic. Such a Long Journeyrecordsthe anxieties, uneasiness,problems and the distinct identity of a Parsi community within the boundary of India, and tried to preservethe ethnic identity of the community.

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As pessimistic ‘old veteran’ Moses watches their attempts, they gradually learn to survive and come to love the heady excitements of London. And as rebellions simmer and unspoken jealousies intensify, Lilith’s powers and sense of purpose threaten not just her own destiny, but the destinies of all the slave women in Jamaica. Since literature is the only medium of the expression of a person’s experiences, there has been an abundance of diasporic literature in the past few years. Scholars have offered different viewpoints on partition, but no where do we find any sign of positive change, one thing that remains constant is that it was a traumatic experience. This list is The Big Jubilee Read and features 70 titles – ten from each decade of the Queen’s reign.Bapsi Sidhwa is a realist and critic of society as she deals with the issues of social evils like dowry system, child marriage, humiliation of widows etc. The book was included in the Big Jubilee Read to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II in 2022. When we look into the ethnic identity of Parsi community, it is completely different from other communities. Mistry had been commissioned to do a documentary on the corpse bearers on channel 4, movie never happened but he wrote book, which is a story of marginalised community of khandhias, within the dwindling Parsi community in India.

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It was soon after its first publication that I read The Crow Eaters, a bit of an oddity then, a Pakistani novel in English and thoroughly enjoyable to boot. She confronts with the domineering patriarchal system of Pakistani literature by providing an alternative image of a strong and confident female. She was his Beggar Maid, ‘meek and voluptuous, with her shy white feet’, and he was her knight, content to sit and adore her. I wish she could grant a leave of absence to Jerbanoo and ask her to take her cleansing ritual right in the midst of other straight-laced novels.The dream of going to America and adopting a first world lifestyle is a very common wish of the middle class families of the Indian sub-continent. In 1980, it was published by Sangam Books of Mumbai, India and by Cape in London ( ISBN 9780224018500).

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Critics such as Indira Bhatt, Novy Kapadia, Makrand K Paranjape and others alienate the escapee--Zaitoon--from countless women . But when tragedy forces Freddy to rethink his legacy, intimations of historic change loom on the country’s horizon. Whereas the former is mainly controlled by the state, the latter is generally influenced by language and ethnicity.Looking at both the cruelty and the beauty of family life and the harshness of India’s modern history, Clear Light of Daybrilliantly evokes the painful process of confronting and healing old wounds.