Imagining London
Subtitle: Postcolonial Fiction and the Transnational Metropolis
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: April 27, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780802094551
Subjects: Cultural studies; General & Literary Fiction; Literary studies: general; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Historical - General; Authors, Commonwealth; Authors, English; England; English fiction; History and criticism; Homes and haunts; London
First sentence: In Arundhati Roy's novel The God of Small Things (1997), the ill-fated English girl Sophie Mol arrives in Ayemenem from London with gifts for her Indian cousins.