Rohintion Mistry In Flood Of Fire

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Anglian fiction. Flood of fire is about a world of sepoys sahibs and rajahs who are travelling from Assam to Calcutta to Canton.

“Vikrm Seth attained dizzy height of success with The Golden Gate (1986) and A Suitably Boy (1993). He stunned the literary world with his novel. Upamanya Chatterjee, with his novel English August (1988) was a great success”.
Chatterjee’s tone was ironic and shown all the administration. Chatterjee brightly uses Indianised English in the novel. His contemporary Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel, (1989) is one of the greatest success of Indian English fiction. In the 1990,sRohintion Mistry has arisen as a significant novelist.
Such a Long Journey (1991) is his initial attempt in the genre in which he deals
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Sex is implicit in these novels, but depicted more explicity in Socialite Evenings (1989) by other women writers Anita Desai in her psychological novels, presents the image of suffering women preoccupied with her inner world. The image of women in fiction has undergone a change during the last four decades. Female writers have moved away from traditional description of enduring, self- sacrificing women towards female characters finding for identity, no longer characterized and defined simply in terms of their …show more content…
The Golden Gate (1986) is a novel in verse collected of five Hundred and Ninety Onega stanzas. It follows the lives of a a group of yuppies in San Franciso. A Suitable Boy (1993) follows the story of folk families over a period of eighteen months as a mother examines for a a suitable boy to marry her daughter. An Equal Music (1997) is about Michel, a practiced violinist, who is unable to forget his love for Julia, a pianist he met as a student in Vienna. Arun Joshi one of the foremost novelists in India published his first novel in the year 1971. The Foreigner (1971) is the story of a young man, Surinder Oberoi who is depressed and almost alienated, a man who sees himself as a stranger wherever he lives or goes to Kenya where he is born, in England where he is a student and in India where he finally resolves. The strange case of Billy Biswas (1971) is a novel about she struggles of a woman who is through the emotional shock of a divorce plus a cruel divorce settlement imposed on her.
Rich Like Us (1985) is a historical fiction of the fate of two upper – class females. Plans for Departure (1985) is a novel of haunting power and superb craftsmanship, rich in its intrigue, tender humour and wonderful observation. Mistaken Identity (1988) is a story of love and obsession that brilliantly command up the turmoil of India in the dusk years of

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