Imaginary homelands Essays and criticism, 1981-1991
Book - 1991
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- Published
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London : New York :
Granta Books
[1991]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Item Description
- "For this paperback, the author has written a new essay to mark the third anniversary of the fatwa"--P. [4] of cover.
- Physical Description
- 439 pages
- ISBN
- 9780140140361
9780670839520
- Imaginary homelands
- 'Errata': or, unreliable narration in Midnight's Children
- The riddle of midnight: India, August 1987
- Censorship
- The assassination of Indira Gandhi
- Dynasty
- Zia Ul-Haq 17 August 1988
- Daughter of the east
- 'Commonwealth literature' does not exist
- Anita Desai
- Kipling
- Hobson-Jobson
- Outside the whale
- Attenborough's Gandhi
- Satyajit Ray
- Handsworth songs
- The location of Brazil
- The new empire within Britain
- An unimportant fire
- Homefront
- V. S. Naipaul
- The painter and the pest
- A general election
- Charter 88
- On Palestinian identity: a conversation with Edward Said
- Nadine Gordimer
- Rian Malan
- Nuruddin Farah
- Kapuscinski's Angola
- John Berger
- Graham Greene
- John Le Carre
- On adventure
- At the Adelaide festival
- Travelling with Chatwin
- Chatwin's travels
- Julian Barnes
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Michel Tournier
- Italo Calvino
- Stephen Hawking
- Andrei Sakharov
- Umberto Eco
- Gunther Grass
- Heinrich Boll
- Siegfried Lenz
- Peter Schneider
- Christoph Ransmayr
- Maurice Sendak and Wilhelm Grimm
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- The language of the pack
- Debrett goes to Hollywood
- E. L. Doctorow
- Michael Herr: an interview
- Richard Ford
- Raymond Carver
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Philip Roth
- Saul Bellow
- Thomas Pynchon
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Grace Paley
- Travels with a golden ass
- The divine supermarket
- Naipaul among the believers
- 'In God we trust'
- In good faith
- Is nothing sacred?
- One thousand days in a balloon.
