The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Bangladeshi author K. Anis Ahmed's recent novel, The World in my Hands.
English-writing Ahmed, who studied at Brown, Washington University, and NYU, is obviously very familiar with Western writing and tastes, but this is still a novel meant for (relatively) local readers -- published by Random House India, with no US/UK editions yet -- local English-language popular fiction of the sort I'd really like to be reading a lot more of -- not just from Southeast Asia, but other areas as well. (Local popular literature in translation would also be great to see, but that's an even taller order .....)
English-writing Ahmed, who studied at Brown, Washington University, and NYU, is obviously very familiar with Western writing and tastes, but this is still a novel meant for (relatively) local readers -- published by Random House India, with no US/UK editions yet -- local English-language popular fiction of the sort I'd really like to be reading a lot more of -- not just from Southeast Asia, but other areas as well. (Local popular literature in translation would also be great to see, but that's an even taller order .....)