two-time winner of the CWA Historical Dagger and has won the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing. His books have also been shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger and the HWA Gold Crown. His novels, A Rising Man and Smoke and Ashes were both selected as Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Smoke and Ashes was also chosen as one of The Times' Best Crime and Thriller novels since 1945.
The newest Wyndham & Banerjee novel is The Shadows of Men.
At the Guardian Mukherjee tagged ten top books about Calcutta, including:
The Namesake by Jhumpa LahiriRead about another entry on the list.
The story of the Ganguli family, their emigration from tradition-bound life in Calcutta and their fraught transformation into Americans.Soon after their arranged marriage, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who pines for her family in Calcutta. When their son is born, the task of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old ways to a new world. Named for the Russian writer by his Indian parents in memory of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd name. Lahiri brings great empathy to Gogol as he stumbles along the first-generation path, dealing with the clash of cultures, conflicts of assimilation and the tangled ties between generations.
The Namesake is among Maura Roosevelt's five juicy, complicated, and otherwise strange family tales and Amanda Bullock's twelve best dates in fiction.
--Marshal Zeringue
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