Identification of World Prose After 1925 - AP English Literature and Composition

This is We Need New Names, published in 2013 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The novel tells the coming-of-age story of a young Zimbabwean immigrant living in the Midwestern United States. Cutting for Stone (2009) is by Abraham Verghese, Arrow of God (1964)is by Chinua Achebe, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)is by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) is by Ayi Kwei Armah.

The author in question is Jhumpa Lahiri. Her writing often centers around Indian or Indian-American immigrant characters and their interfamilial relationships and strife. Interpreter of Maladies was published in 1999 and won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent book is The Lowland (2013)

Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss. Arundhati Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things. Salman Rushdie is the author of Midnight's Children (1981). Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007).

Jean Rhys’ 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea, a seminal postcolonial and feminist work, explores the Caribbean childhood of Bertha, the first wife of Jane Eyre ’s Mr. Rochester.

V.S Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997), Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899), and J.M Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) were all used as alternative answer choices.

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was first published in 1847.

This is Achebe’s 1958 novel Things Fall Apart. The title is taken from the famous W.B. Yeats poem The Second Coming (1919). The plot of Things Fall Apart follows the life (and downfall) of Okonkwo, a local hero and wrestling champion in a small fictional Nigerian community, as his community is slowly hedgmonized by colonial missionary and commercial influence.

V.S Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), J.M Coetzee's Disgrace (1999), Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist (1974), and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) were used as alternative answer choices.

The questions refers to The God of Small Things, which won the 1997 Booker Prize. The novel follows the lives of the aforementioned twins in an intergenerational family in the second half of the 20th century.

Salman Rushdie's Midnight’s Children (1981), J.G Farrell's Troubles (1970), Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone (2009), and Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi (1940) were used as alternative answer choices.

Published in 1961, A House for Mr. Biswas is one of Naipul’s most famous works and is set in his native Trinidad. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)is by Jean Rhys; A Small Place (1988) is by Jamaica Kincaid; Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) is by Edwidge Danticat; and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)is by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The correct answer is Nadine Gordimer, whose novels include The Lying Days (1953),Booker Prize-winning The Conservationist (1974), and No Time Like the Present (2012).

Chinua Achebe was Nigerian, as is Wole Soyinka; NoViolet Bulawayo is Zimbawean (although she has been living in the United States for many years; she teaches at Stanford University); Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is Kenyan.

The correct answer is The Woman Warrior (1976), a memoir that mixes autobiographical passages with Chinese folktales in order to investigate issues of immigration, gender, culture, and ethnicity.

Anne Fadiman's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (1997), Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club (1989), Mo Yan's Red Sorghum(1986), Yu Hua's To Live(1993) were used as alternative answer choices

This is the Chinese author Mo Yan (Mo Yan is a pen name that loosely translated means "don't speak," his given name is Guan Moye), who uses magical realism and folk tales to investigate political, sexual, and cultural identities. Yan was the recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Red Sorghum was published in 1986, Pow! was published in 2003, and Big Breasts and Wide Hips was published in 1997.

Ha Jin wrote the National Book Award winning In the Pond (1999). Xiaolu Guo is an author and filmmaker whose novels include UFO in her Eyes (2009) and 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (2008). Su Tong is the author of Binu and the Great Wall of China (2009). Yu Hua is a short story writer and novelist whose works include To Live (2003) and Brothers (2009).

This is Ahmad Fuadi, who is an important Indonesian entrepreneur as well as a novelist. Negeri 5 Menara (The Land of 5 Towers) was published in 2009. Pramoedya Ananta Toer wrote the Buru quartet, Ayu Utami wrote Saman (1998), Sapardi Djoko Damono wrote mainly lyric poetry, and Leila Chudori wrote The Last Night (1989).

While all of these titles are graphic novels, only Persepolis was written by Satrapi. The book is an autobiographical graphic novel and portrays the Iran-Iraq War, Islam, gender roles, and cultural identities in Iran.

Daniel Clowes' Ghost World (1997), Alan Moore's From Hell (1989), Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira (1982), and Art Spiegelman's Maus (1991) were used as alternative answer choices.

Jean Rhys’ 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea, a seminal postcolonial and feminist work, explores the Caribbean childhood of Bertha, the first wife of Jane Eyre ’s Mr. Rochester.

V.S Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things (1997), Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (1899), and J.M Coetzee's Disgrace (1999) were all used as alternative answer choices.

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was first published in 1847.

This is Achebe’s 1958 novel Things Fall Apart. The title is taken from the famous W.B. Yeats poem The Second Coming (1919). The plot of Things Fall Apart follows the life (and downfall) of Okonkwo, a local hero and wrestling champion in a small fictional Nigerian community, as his community is slowly hedgmonized by colonial missionary and commercial influence.

V.S Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas (1961), J.M Coetzee's Disgrace (1999), Nadine Gordimer's The Conservationist (1974), and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) were used as alternative answer choices.

The questions refers to The God of Small Things, which won the 1997 Booker Prize. The novel follows the lives of the aforementioned twins in an intergenerational family in the second half of the 20th century.

Salman Rushdie's Midnight’s Children (1981), J.G Farrell's Troubles (1970), Abraham Verghese's Cutting for Stone (2009), and Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi (1940) were used as alternative answer choices.

Published in 1961, A House for Mr. Biswas is one of Naipul’s most famous works and is set in his native Trinidad. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)is by Jean Rhys; A Small Place (1988) is by Jamaica Kincaid; Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) is by Edwidge Danticat; and Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)is by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

The correct answer is Nadine Gordimer, whose novels include The Lying Days (1953),Booker Prize-winning The Conservationist (1974), and No Time Like the Present (2012).

Chinua Achebe was Nigerian, as is Wole Soyinka; NoViolet Bulawayo is Zimbawean (although she has been living in the United States for many years; she teaches at Stanford University); Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o is Kenyan.

The author in question is Jhumpa Lahiri. Her writing often centers around Indian or Indian-American immigrant characters and their interfamilial relationships and strife. Interpreter of Maladies was published in 1999 and won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize. Her most recent book is The Lowland (2013)

Kiran Desai won the 2006 Booker Prize for The Inheritance of Loss. Arundhati Roy won the 1997 Booker Prize for The God of Small Things. Salman Rushdie is the author of Midnight's Children (1981). Mohsin Hamid is the author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007).

This is Adichie’s 2013 novel Americanah, which concerns the life of a young Nigerian woman who immigrates to the United States in order to pursue higher education. The novel investigates race and culture in the United States as well as class, shame, love, and colonialism in Nigeria.

V.S Naipaul's Guerillas (1975), Jhumpa Lahiri's The Lowland (2013), Paul Bowles' The Sheltering Sky (1949), and Zadie Smith's White Teeth (2000) were used as alternative answer choices.

This is We Need New Names, published in 2013 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The novel tells the coming-of-age story of a young Zimbabwean immigrant living in the Midwestern United States. Cutting for Stone (2009) is by Abraham Verghese, Arrow of God (1964)is by Chinua Achebe, Half of a Yellow Sun (2006)is by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) is by Ayi Kwei Armah.