Author Archives | Feroza Jussawalla
Feroza Jussawalla is Professor of English at the University of New Mexico, where she has taught since 2001. She is editor of Conversations with V.S Naipaul and of Interviews with Writers of the Post Colonial World. Her book of poems Chiffon Saris was published by the Toronto South Asian Review and Writers' Workshop, Kolkata.
Book Review: Khaled Hosseini’s “And the Mountains Echoed”
Beautifully wrought, with rich dialogue and painterly evocation of the landscape, Khaled Hosseini’s And the Mountains Echoed (2013) follows not only in the tradition of his own excellent work from the Kite Runner (2003) on, but in the literature about Afghanistan. The book follows in the grand tradition of Rabindranath Tagore’s Kabuliwala (1892) which like this one, tells, the story of the diasporic Afghan, impoverished, travelling for work, separated from his own daughter and another he attempts to make his own. Both books tell of the unhappiness of late life reunions...
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04. June 2013
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