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The toss of a lemon : a novel  Cover Image E-book E-book

The toss of a lemon : a novel / Padma Viswanathan.

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  • ISBN: 9780307375810 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0307375811 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource.
  • Publisher: [New York, New York] : Vintage Canada, 2010.

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Subject: Women > India > Fiction.
Families > India > Fiction.
India > Social life and customs > Fiction.
India > Social conditions > 20th century > Fiction.
Genre: Electronic books.

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PADMA VISWANATHAN’s fiction has been published in eight countries and shortlisted for the PEN USA Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her stories, essays and short translations have appeared in Granta, The Boston Review, BRICK, and elsewhere. Her translation of the novel São Bernardo, by the Brazilian novelist Graciliano Ramos, was published in 2020 by New York Review Books. Originally from Edmonton, Alberta, she now divides her time between Montreal, Quebec, and Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she is Professor of Fiction at the University of Arkansas. She has served as fiction faculty at the Banff Centre, the Vermont Studio Center, Kundiman Asian-American Writers Retreat, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences and the Low-Residency MFA of Fairleigh-Dickinson University. She is married to the poet and translator Geoffrey Brock.


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