Locating the Periphery: Booker Prize & Indian English Novel

by Nilanshu Kumar Agarwal

This collection brings together the very best of contemporary critical thinking on the Booker prize winning Indian English novels Salman Rushdies Midnight s Children, Arundhati Roy s The God of Small Things, Kiran Desai s The Inheritance of Loss and Aravind Adigas The White Tiger. By examining the different issues surrounding the illusive, enigmatic and often controversial topics related to these novels this collection acts as an indispensable companion to the readers. Investigating the major thematic issues, this book will not only focus new light on the thematic, social and cultural issues, but will also enable the readers to rethink the position of the text from an international and broader intellectual context.

150 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2013