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  1. 1 day ago · Here are some of the best Jhumpa Lahiri novels you must read. The Namesake. The story is about an Indian couple settled in the United States. It is about the trials and tribulations they face as immigrants to blend into the American culture. Interpreter of Maladies.

  2. 2 days ago · Jhumpa Lahiri is an English-born American novelist and short-story writer whose works illuminate the immigrant experience, in particular that of East Indians. Her notable books include the short-story collection Interpreter of Maladies and the novels The Namesake and The Lowland.

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  3. 6 hours ago · In the 75 years since its publication, 1984 has left a lingering mark on our world – well beyond the year it was fictionally set in. The novel’s representation of people being watched by an all-seeing totalitarian leader has entered the everyday imagination, language, and even inspired the reality TV show, Big Brother. Its vernacular is now commonplace. Politicians of every persuasion describe any measure they are opposed to as Orwellian, a namesake for the novel’s author, George Orwell.

  4. 1 hour ago · The novel traces the life of Sashikala, a Sri Lankan Tamil girl growing up in a village near Jaffna, a town in the Tamil-dominated northern part of the island. She finds her own fate and that of her family inexorably threaded with the trajectory of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). The LTTE and other Tamil separatist groups sprang up ...

  5. 1 day ago · In his latest novel, the extreme realist dips into fantasy—and taps into the human hunger for meaning. By Lev Grossman. Illustration by Mark Pernice. September 30, 2024, 7 AM ET. There’s a ...

  6. 6 hours ago · Still, for Sumner, 1984 represents a pre-internet understanding of surveillance – a uni-directional gaze, observing from a distance and often framed as between a citizen and the state. The turn of the 21st century and the arrival of ‘big data’ irrevocably changed that. Surveillance is now more ubiquitous than when Orwell’s novel was ...

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  8. 3 days ago · British literature is from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. This article covers British literature in the English language. Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion of Latin and Anglo-Norman literature, where literature in these languages ...