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•Taw Twang Eng •| The Gift Of Rain We focus on there Work.
•Musharraf Ali Farooqi •| Between Clay And Dust What it's all about?
•Jeet Thyil •| Narcopolis Summary!
•Kim Thúy •| Ru Lessons!
•Nayomi Munaweera •| Island Of A Thousand Mirror
 Tan Twang Eng
Tan Twan Eng was born in Penang and lived in various places in Malaysia as a
child.Tan's first novel, The Gift of Rain (2007), was longlisted for the Man
Booker Prize and has been translated into Italian, Spanish, Greek Romanian,
Czech and Serbian.
 •The Gift of Rain
• What is the gift of rain about/summary?
The Gift of Rain tells a riveting and poignant tale about a young man caught in
the tangle of wartime loyalties and deceits.When the Japanese savagely invade
Malaya, Philip realizes that his mentor and sensei-to whom he owes absolute
loyalty-is a Japanese spy. Young Philip has been an unwitting traitor, and must
now work in secret to save as many lives as possible, even as his own family is
brought to its knees.
 It's all about
The Gift of Rain is shot through with universal themes, a novel about agonizingly
divided loyalties and unbearable loss. But it is also about human courage and—
ultimately—about the nature of enduring loyalty.
 Qoute!!!
The mind forgets, but the heart will always remember. And what is the heart's
memory but love itself?
Twan Eng Tan, The Gift of Rain
Tags: heart, love, memory, mind
 Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Musharraf Ali Farooqi is a critically acclaimed Pakistani author, novelist and
translator.

His novel "Between Clay and Dust" was shortlisted for The Man Asian Literary
Prize 2012 and longlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature.
 Between Clay And Dust
What is the story between clay and dust about/summary?

Between Clay and Dust tells the story of two characters: an aged wrestler who's
struggling with the passing down of his title to his brother, and a beautiful
prostitute with a prestigious past, both living in a small city in Pakistan, both
coming to terms with the slow decay of their power.
 Other more
Who was a critically acclaimed Pakistani author whose novel between clay and
dust was shortlisted for the man?

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

In this unforgettable novel, Musharraf Ali Farooqi weaves together the stories of
these two extraordinary characters in the twilight of their lives as their world
crumbles around them. Between Clay and Dust is an arresting account of love,
honor, betrayal, and the ways in which we wrestle with history.
 Jeet Thyil
Jeet Thayil (born 1959 in Kerala) is an Indian poet, novelist, librettist and
musician. He is best known as a poet and is the author of four collections:
His first novel, Narcopolis, (Faber & Faber, 2012), was shortlisted for the 2012
Man Booker Prize and the Hindu Literary Prize 2013
 Narcopolis
The novel Narcopolis is about an Indian city named Bombay that has undergone a
drastic change over three decades. The author does not present an innocent and
aesthetic picture of the city rather he explored the ugly reality of the drug culture
and day-to-day social transaction of the underworld.
 It's book is all about
It is a book about drugs, sex, death, perversion, addiction, love, and God and has
more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or
Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent's familiar literary lights.
 Theme
What is the theme of the novel Narcopolis?
The novel draws on Thayil's own experiences as a drug addict, and what he calls
"the lost 20 years of my life." As the title suggests, Narcopolis touches on many of
the intense themes of greed, glamour, power and vice which haunt the streets of
an extreme, multifaceted city like Bombay.
 Qoute
Then there are the addicts, the hunger addicts, the rage addicts, the poverty
addicts , and power addicts, and the pure addicts who are addicted not to
substances but to the oblivion and the tenderness the substances engender. An
addict, if you don't mind me saying so, is like a saint. What is a saint but someone
who has cut himself off, voluntarily, from the world's traffic and currency.
Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis
Tags: addicts
 Kim Thúy
Kim Thúy arrived in Canada in 1979, at the age of ten. She has worked as a
seamstress, interpreter, lawyer and restaurant owner. She currently lives in
Montreal where she devotes herself to writing.Her debut novel Ru won the
Governor General's Award for French language fiction at the 2010 Governor
General's Awards. An English edition, translated by Sheila Fischman, was
published in 2012 and was a shortlisted nominee for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller
Prize.
 The book is all about!?
The book tells the story of the first wave of Boat People who fled Vietnam
between 1977 and 1979 and the trauma they lived through, taking the reader on
their journey. It is estimated that more than 200,000 boat people fled, many of
which drowned.
 Qoute
Elsewhere, people are too preoccupied by their day-to-day survival to take the
time to write their collective history.
Kim Thúy, Ru
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 Nayomi Munaweera
Nayomi Munaweera's debut novel, "Island of a Thousand Mirror" was long-listed
for the Man Asia Literary Prize and the Dublin IMPAC Prize. It won the
Commonwealth Regional Prize for Asia and was short-listed for the Northern
California Book Award.
 Island Of A Thousand
Mirror
Island of a Thousand Mirrors follows the fate of two families, one Tamil, one
Sinhala as they straddle opposite sides of the long and brutal Sri Lankan civil war.
Narrated by the eldest daughter of each family, the story explores how each
woman negotiates war, migration, love, exile, and belonging.
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