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One of my favourite places to read about is India. I find that literature set within the vast and wondrous expanse of the country appeals to all of my senses, and instills in me a lot of wanderlust. I have yet to visit India, but I feel as though I continue to learn a lot about it through reading novels set there. Here are ten books set in India which I have not yet read, and which really appeal to me.
1. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
&#;With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magnificent novel captures all the cruelty and corruption, dignity and heroism, of India. The time is The place is an unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency, in whose upheavals four strangers&#;a spirited widow, a young student uprooted from his idyllic hill station, and two tailors who have fled the caste violence of their native village&#;will be thrust together, forced to share
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Rohinton Mistry was born in and grew up in Bombay, India, where he also attended university. In he emigrated to Canada, where he began a course in English and Philosophy at the University of is the author of three novels and one collection of short stories. His debut novel, Such a Long Journey (), won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book and the Governor General's Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was made into an acclaimed feature film in His second novel, A Fine Balance (), won many prestigious awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction and the Giller Prize, as well as being shortlisted for the Booker Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. His collection of short stories, Tales from Firozsha Baag, was published in In Faber published Mistry's third novel, Family Matters, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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Salman Rushdie and Rohinton Mistry: Fatal Attractions
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Mother and Son : Oedipus Wrecks
"Mummyji comes into the picture at a very early stage in a man's lifeOur whole attitude to sex was coloured by our mother Mama's views on it are clear enoughbad girls do it for pleasure. Good girls endure it as duty." [In Uncertain Liaisons eds. Shoba dem and Khushwant Singh, , p. 5]
Freud's audacity introduced the term "Oedipus Complex" to the public at large. This theory can easily be explained: in a male child's mind, a desire exists to see the death of the father and sexual desire is expressed towards the mother. (3) For the time being we will not interest ourselves in the countless feminist (amongst other) reappraisals of Freud. What we will look at though is how this theory is so uppenbart portrayed in Rushdie's fiery Zogoiby family in The Moor's gods Sigh. There are also variations on this groundbreaking, now obsolete, Freudian take, illust