| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1847374034 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84737-403-5 |
| No of pages | 319 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Published Date | 05 May 2009 |
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| Language | English |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1847374034 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84737-403-5 |
| No of pages | 319 |
| Font Size | Medium |
| Book Publisher | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Published Date | 05 May 2009 |
Tania James was raised in Louisville, Kentucky after a brief stint in Chicago from ages 0 to 4. She graduated from Harvard University with a degree in filmmaking and received an MFA from Columbia's School of the Arts.
Her debut novel Atlas of Unknowns was published by Knopf in 2009, and was a New York Times Editor's Choice, an Indie Next Notable, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and a Best Book of 2009 for The San Francisco Chronicle and NPR.
Atlas was also shortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian literature. Her short stories have appeared in a number of journals, including Boston Review, Grant, Guernica, Kenyon Review, One Story, Orion, and A Public Space.
She has also written for the New York Times, Courier Journal, and Elle India. The title story of her collection was a finalist for Best American Short Stories 2008 and a Pushcart Prize nominee.
Tania is the recipient of fellowships from the Ragsdale Foundation and the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
In 2011-2012, she was a Fulbright fellow to India living in New Delhi. She lives in Washington D.C.
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When seventeen-year-old Anju wins an all-expenses-paid scholarship to study in New York for a year, she jumps at the chance to leave her home town in Kerala and embrace all that America has to offer. But there are bittersweet consequences ahead, not only for Anju, but also for the father and older sister she has left behind. For when the lie behind Anju's scholarship is suddenly revealed she is left without a visa and, too proud to confess to her family, goes into hiding.
She accepts a job in a suburban beauty salon and the offer of a roof over her head from the kindly Bird, who strangely seems to know more about Anju's past than Anju herself has told her. Meanwhile, Anju's family are on a mission to find her, trying not to contemplate the possibility that they might never see her again...Atlas of Unknowns is vibrant, moving and breathtakingly told -- the debut of an irresistible and utterly original new voice in fiction.