Two women, living in America’s heartland, unearth shocking secrets about the men they love and question the lives they chose. P is on deadline. She should be translating. Instead, she’s writing obsessively about her favorite color: chartreuse. A literary translator in Arkansas (of all places), ……
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This is the first and only piece of fiction I have ever set in Brazil. I first went there in 1999 (I think) to do research toward a play. The play never congealed, but my interest in Brazil, which was ……
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From internationally acclaimed New Face of Fiction author Padma Viswanathan, a stunning new work set among families of those who lost loved ones in the 1985 Air India bombing, registering the unexpected reverberations of this tragedy in the lives of ……
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The debut novel of Random House’s 2008 New Face of Fiction: “This soaring new novel, inspired by the author’s family history, will draw comparisons to The God of Small Things, but Viswanathan has a voice and a vision all her ……
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