CONTEMPORARY INDIAN FICTION
One Monday and three Wednesdays
Wednesday, March 23, April 20, and May 4, Noon - 1:30 p.m
Monday, April 4, 12:30 - 2 pm
Compass Bank, Second Floor, 2001 Kirby at San Felipe
There has been a burgeoning of fiction by Indian and Indian American
authors in the last decade, and this seminar will focus on four exciting
books, each very different, in an attempt to analyze what is unique
about these writers and their visions. We will discuss Jhumpa Lahiri’s
The Interpreter of Maladies; Arundhati Roy’s The
God of Small Things; Manil Suri’s The Death of Vishnu;
and Chitra Divakaruni’s Queen of Dreams, in this order.
Chitra Divakaruni is the author of two prize-winning story
collections, Arranged Marriage and The Unknown Errors of
Our Lives, four volumes of poetry, and the bestselling novels,
The Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, and The
Vine of Desire. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker
and the Atlantic Monthly, among others. Ms. Divakaruni teaches
creative writing at the University of Houston.
