Ms. Maggie Kayayan
Modern Literature
|
Here are some suggestions
of works by modern authors that you might like to read. Balzac and the
Little Chinese Seamstress – by Sijie Dai. Two teenage boys are sent to the countryside
for “re-education” during the Cultural Revolution in Beneath
a Sky of Porphyry by Aïcha Lemsine. Describes life in an Algerian village
before, during & after the war of liberation against French. Child of the Dark:
The Diary of Carolina Maria De Jesus by Carolina Maria De Jesus,
Written
between 1955 and 1960, journal of a single mother who supports her three
young children by picking through garbage in a Brazilian slum. The Clear Light of
Day by Anita Desai Present day Indian family
and their experiences since the death of Gandhi. A
Girl Named Disaster by
Nancy Farmer. Girl’s hard life
in a village in House of the
Winds by Mia Yun.
A family whose lives have been affected by Japanese occupation and
the Korean War The Kite Runner Amir, haunted
by his betrayal of Hassan, the son of his father's servant and a childhood
friend, returns to |