Passport with Books: How the Book Travels Time, Place, and Generations

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun, set before and during the Biafran War, was recently called a “transcendent novel of many descriptive triumphs” by Publishers Weekly. Her first novel, Purple Hibiscus, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction and awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book.

Rebecca Caldwell is an arts reporter and editor for The Globe and Mail.

Kiran Desai’s prose was described by Salman Rushdie as “welcome proof that India’s encounter with the English language continues to give birth to new children, endowed with lavish gifts.” Her latest book, The Inheritance of Loss, was recently longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.

Gautam Malkani’s Londonstani was called an “enthralling book” and a “bold and vigorous debut” by The Independent on Sunday.