eivormykle: Thoughts On Three Authors...

Our goal in this curriculum now is to focus on literature and choose a book and read it. Before we do this we are going to do some quick research on three authors and decide who we find the most interesting. The authors are Amy Tan, Moshin Hamid and Andrea Levy, who are all prize-winning and talented writers that uses different techniques and tools.

Amy Tan

Amy Tan is an American author with Chinese background, who are known to write about mother-daughter bonds. Tan has won several prizes for her work and she has conducted a very important message through her work. Her book The Joy Luck Club was written in 1989 was a best seller. The plot concern four Chinese families and consists of sixteen different stories about the families, with two parts that focuses on the mothers and two parts concerning the daughters.

Moshin Hamid

Moshin Hamid is a Pakistani British novelist who has written three best-sellers and is known worldwide. His work work have been translated into several languages and he has won many important prizes. The style of writing he usually goes for is slightly different than other British writers. His style of writing is called Dramatic Monologue. His book The Reluctant fundamentalist is one of my choices to read. The book has an interesting point of view, where the main person sits at a café and tells a retrospective story.

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Andrea Levy

Andrea Levy is an English author with Jamaican background who didn't start her writing until she was in her mid-thirties. She wrote novels that she wished to read as a young woman. At that time there was no books about african people in Britain. Levy succeeded with conveying a strong message through her work. She managed to show the world how the Jamaican people, like herself, had been treated. She describes her father's generation who returned to Britain after fighting in the Second world war and explores their adjustments and problems they received from this life. The cultural difference and culture clash comes trough in this novel, gives an interesting touch to the book.