Collected Short Fiction Read Free Page B

Burgess:
Earthly Powers
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    HISTORICAL EVENTS: An independent Zimbabwe formed.
    1981
    AUTHOR’S LIFE:
Among the Believers
.
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Rushdie:
Midnight’s Children
.
    1982
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Falklands War.
    1983
    AUTHOR’S LIFE: Honorary Fellow, University College, Oxford.
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Narayan:
A Tiger for Malgudi
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Reagan proposes ‘Star Wars’.
    1984
    AUTHOR’S LIFE:
Finding the Centre
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Famine in Ethiopia. Indira Gandhi assassinated.
    1985
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Márquez:
Love in the Time of Cholera
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Riots in South Africa. Gorbachev General Secretary in USSR.
    1986
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Walcott:
Collected Poems
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Gorbachev–Reagan summit.
    1987
    AUTHOR’S LIFE:
The Enigma of Arrival.
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Morrison:
Beloved
.
Levi:
The Drowned and the Saved
.
    1988
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Rushdie:
The Satanic Verses
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Gorbachev announces big troop reductions. Benazir Bhutto Prime Minister of Pakistan.
    1989
    AUTHOR’S LIFE:
A Turn in the South
.
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Márquez:
The General in his Labyrinth
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Fall of the Berlin Wall. Tiananmen Square massacre in China.
    1990
    AUTHOR’S LIFE:
India: A Million Mutinies Now
. Knighthood for Services to Literature.
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Updike:
Rabbit at Rest
.
Walcott:
Omeros
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Nelson Mandela released from jail after 27 years’ imprisonment. German reunification. John Major becomes Prime Minister in UK. Attempted coup by Islamic fundamentalists in Trinidad.
    1991
    LITERARY CONTEXT: M. Amis:
Time’s Arrow
.
Okri:
The Famished Road
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Gulf War. Yeltsin President of Russia. USSR disbanded.
    1992
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Bill Clinton elected US President. Civil war in former Yugoslavia.
    1993
    AUTHOR’S LIFE: Wins the first David Cohen Prize for Literature.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Israel hands over West Bank and Jericho to Palestinians. Storming of White House, Moscow.
    1994
    AUTHOR’S LIFE:
A Way in the World
.
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Heller:
Closing Time
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Mandela and ANC sweep to victory in South African elections. Rwandan massacres. Russian military action against Chechen republic.
    1996
    AUTHOR’S LIFE: Wife Patricia Naipaul dies (3 February); marries Nadira Khannum Alvi (15 April).
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Márquez:
News of a Kidnapping
.
    1997
    AUTHOR’S LIFE:
Letters.
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Bellow:
The Actual
.
Roth:
American Pastoral
.
Roy:
The God of Small Things
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Tony Blair elected Prime Minister in UK (first Labour government since 1979). Princess Diana is killed in a car accident in Paris.
    1998
    AUTHOR’S LIFE:
Beyond Belief
.
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Morrison:
Paradise
.
Pamuk:
My Name is Red
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Northern Ireland Referendum accepts the Good Friday Agreement. Clinton orders air strikes against Iraq.
    1999
    AUTHOR’S LIFE:
Between Father and Son: Family Letters
.
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Coetzee:
Disgrace
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Serbs attack ethnic Albanians in Kosovo; US leads NATO in bombing of Belgrade.
    2000
    AUTHOR’S LIFE:
Reading and Writing: A Personal Account
.
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Ishiguro:
When We Were Orphans
.
Smith:
White Teeth
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Milosevic’s regime in the former Yugoslavia collapses. George W. Bush is elected President of the US. Putin becomes Russian President. Palestinian
intifadah
.
    2001
    AUTHOR’S LIFE:
Half a Life;
Nobel Prize.
    LITERARY CONTEXT: McEwan:
Atonement
.
Franzen:
The Corrections
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Al-Qaeda terrorist attacks of 9/11. US and allied military action against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
    2002
    AUTHOR’S LIFE:
The Writer and the World: Essays
.
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Martel:
Life of Pi
.
    HISTORICAL EVENTS: Guantanamo Bay detention camps established by Bush administration.
    2003
    AUTHOR’S LIFE:
Literary Occasions: Essays
.
    LITERARY CONTEXT: Atwood:
Oryx and