Is Kiran Desai’s The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny the great American–Indian novel?
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Rushdie feared until he dealt with the attempt on his life, he ‘wouldn’t be able to write anything else’. The book is a clearly cathartic story of courage and resilience, but it’s curiously one-eyed.
Rushdie’s books have inspired generations of readers and writers – and a recent attempt to kill him.
Salman Rushdie, great writer and outspoken defender of writers’ freedom of expression, has been under a fatwa for more than 30 years. He’s set to recover from a shock stabbing last Friday in New York.
On the 75th anniversary of India’s partition, scholars from the US, Canada, France, UK and Australia write about their favorite book or film that best explains the trauma of a violent division.
The novel goes to the heart of Muslim religious beliefs and challenges some of its most sensitive tenets.
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Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Murdoch University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
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Assistant Professor the history of modern and contemporary India, University of Nottingham
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FBA Professor of English Literature, King's College London
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Affiliated Faculty of Bioethics, Religion, and Society, Department of Religious Studies, DePaul University
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Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, The University of Melbourne
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Professor & Director, Global Ecological Change & Sustainability Laboratory, University of Guelph
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Maîtresse de conférences HDR en anglais, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord