Hindustan Times
Long before Mohsin Hamid startled us with The Reluctant Fundamentalist (how many of you have read his debut, Moth Smoke ? You should, though; it’s very fine), Kamila Shamsie acquired a following in India, and HM Naqvi made a flamboyant, unbuttoned debut, Aamer Hussein began to build a body of eloquent, understated, beautiful work. Read more
(5 votes, average: 4.8 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, March 29, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged HM Naqvi, hussein, Kamila Shamsie, Mohsin Hamid, moth smoke, Pakistani writers, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
This is, as with most things to do with this blog, selective and arbitrary. Given that we are in the second week of the last month of the last year of the decade known as the noughties, some stock taking is necessary. But I am terrible at taking stick, awful at anthologizing, because I feel guilty about leaving things out. Read more
(4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, December 7, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Alice Munro, Andre Agassi, Colm Toibin, JM coetzee, John Updike, Kamila Shamsie, Orhan Pamuk, Philip Roth
