The Holder of the World explained

The Holder of the World
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Publisher:	Alfred A. Knopf (US) Chatto and Windus (UK)
Release Date:	September 1993
Media Type:	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages:	286 pp
Isbn:	0-394-58846-0
Dewey:	813/.54 20
Congress:	PR9499.3.M77 H65 1993
Oclc:	27641604
Preceded By:	Jasmine
Followed By:	Leave It to Me

The Holder of the World, (1993) is a novel by Bharati Mukherjee. It is a retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1850 novel The Scarlet Letter, placing the story in two centuries (17th and 20th). The novel involves time travel via virtual reality, locating itself in 20th century Boston, 17th century Colonial America, and 17th century India during the spread of the British East India Company. It also references Thomas Pynchon's novel, V.. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]} The Holder of the World was among the contenders in a 2014 list by The Telegraph of the 10 all-time greatest Asian novels^[6]

Further reading

• Luo, S. P. (2003). "Rewriting Travel: Ahdaf Soueif ’s The Map of Love and Bharati Mukherjee’s The Holder of the World." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 38 (2), 77–104.
• Srikanth, Rajini. The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004: 187–192.

External links

• Holders of the Word:An Interview with Bharati Mukherjee
• Breaking the Borders of Gendered Space: Female Characters in Aritha van Herk's No Fixed Address and Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World
• Reader's guide
• Powells book review
• A Selected Annotated Bibliography

Publication history

• Hardcover —, published in September 1993 by Alfred A. Knopf.
• Paperback —, published in September 1994 by Random House

Notes and References

1. Book: j.ctvgs0bhh.9 . Mukherjee's 1990s Writing . Maxey . Ruth . Understanding Bharati Mukherjee . 2019 . 75–96 . University of South Carolina Press . 10.2307/j.ctvgs0bhh.9 . 9781643360003 . 240671860 .
2. News: Appiah. K. Anthony. Giving Up the Perfect Diamond. The New York Times. October 10, 1993.
3. 4021775 . Playing Games with History . Gornick . Vivian . The Women's Review of Books . 1993 . 11 . 3 . 15 . 10.2307/4021775 .
4. 40150581 . Parameswaran . Uma . Reviewed work: The Holder of the World, Bharati Mukherjee . World Literature Today . 1994 . 68 . 3 . 636–637 . 10.2307/40150581 .
5. 822192 . Patterns in American Literature . Abair . Jacqueline M. . Cross . Alice . The English Journal . 1999 . 88 . 6 . 83–87 . 10.2307/822192 .
6. Web site: 2014-04-22. 10 best Asian novels of all time. 2020-12-06. The Telegraph. en-GB.