Configurations of exile

Toronto author Chelva Kanaganayakam seeks out 12 of today's most prominent South Asian writers across the globe: from Colombo (Sri Lanka) to New York, London to Sydney (Australia), Singapore to Toronto, who talk candidly about their life and work. In his turn, Kanaganayakam complements the picture by revealing the salient features behind the works, and the media, critical and public responses. What emerges is a fuller, insightful and sometimes surprising picture of some of today's most important and prolific transnational writers in their self-created world. With introduction and afterword, biographies and bibliography, and author photographs.