Margaret Mascarenhas | Red Room Writer Profile

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Margaret Mascarenhas is a consulting editor, columnist and novelist, the author of the Diasporic novel, Skin, Penguin India 2001 (published in French translation by Mercure de France in 2002, and in Por ...
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Love in the Time of Cholera, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Temple of My Familiar, Canto General, Anthills of the Savannah, Sula, ...and others

(Dead and Alive) Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jean Paul Sartre, Milan Kundera, Margaret Atwood, John Irving, Alice Walker, Michael Ondaatje, Toni Morrison, Chinua Achebe, Isaac Singer, Pablo Neruda, Bernard Malamud, Colette, Dorothy Parker, Ernesto Goldman, Ben Okri, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ellen Gilchrist, Louise Erdrich, Orhan Pamuk, Ann Pachette, Penelope Lively, Alice Sebold,JM Coetzee, Saramago, Ursula Leguin, Ariel Dorfman...and others

I read several books at the same time. At the moment I'm reading: Solo by Rana Dasgupta,The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone by Shashi Tharoor, and A Mercy by Toni Morrison.