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Modern South Asian Literature in English

Looks at the work of fifteen authors who were born in India, Pakistan, or Sri Lanka, and whose work is based at least partly there, including R.K. Narayan, Salman Rushdie, and Arundhati Roy.

The passages about Pakistan foreshadow the portrait of that nation he would
create in his next novel. Shame (1983) is a scarifying satire of the history of
Pakistan. It is a much shorter novel than Midnight's Children, and it is tempting to
recommend beginners to start with it; yet it lacks much of the charm and humor of
his earlier novel. If Rushdie has a love/hate relationship with India, his feelings
toward Pakistan are much more unambiguous. Rushdie's personal animosity to
the country's ...