Locating the Periphery: Booker Prize & Indian English Novel

This anthology brings together the very best of contemporary critical thinking on the booker prize winning Indian English novels - Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children", Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things", Aravind Adiga's "The White Tiger" and Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss". By examining different issues surrounding the illusive, enigmatic and often controversial topics related to each of these novels, this anthology provides in-depth intellectual and critical analysis of the text from a broad scholarly perspective. Investigating the major thematic issues, this book not only focuses new light on the thematic, social or cultural issues, but also enables the readers to rethink the position of the text from an international and broader intellectual context.