Böcker av Ritu Sharma

Edith Wharton contrived in her novels to sacrifice the portrait of ¿life in time¿ to ¿life by value¿. But even granting this, one can observe that the profound skill employed by Edith Wharton in moving specially her female characters through large areas and epochs is used not primarily in order to guarantee their ¿reality¿, but to suggest the essential rootlessness and restlessness that characterise woman¿s, nay man¿s existence in modern world. Her novels are not peripheral to the central facts of American experience. They are an integral part of the social world. Her fiction is nothing short of an ¿all over¿ picture, where every inch is charged with line and colour and the total metamorphosis of the surface presents textual and material canvass that depicts symbols of a larger reality. The considerable value of her novels as social documents cannot be denied. Like a great artist, Edith Wharton integrates her sense of the amoral individual into a carefully controlled moral context and her fiction can be viewed as ¿a telescope upon a tower¿ which seems to correct false social history and to provide meaning to social life.

33 women from 5 continents share their phenomenal stories of transformation.

Khushwant Singh is generally known for his achievements in journalism but his success in writing novel is proved by this novel Train to Pakistan. Khushwant Singh can be described as the man about town with a merry heart and a comic view of life, if he was ever upset by any tragic event; it was the mass killing that preceded the partition of the continent. This is well reflected in his outstanding work Train to Pakistan, which is rightly regarded as an epic of modern India. This novel is a study of anatomy of communal riots. This is a hallmark of Khushwant Singh's style that he shows exactly what happens in communal riots and how it affects people both physically and mentally. This novel attracts the interest of every kind of reader. It contains love scenes, sensual scenes, horror scenes, pathetic scenes, comic scenes, violence scenes and all these scenes together make a landmark in the history of Indian writing in English. Khushwant Singh wrote this novel from the very core of his heart. He was very much disturbed from the physical and mental violence at the time of partition. Even after so many years, this novel has same craze among its readers as it had at the very beginning.