Language English Name The of Publication date September 1993 Country United States of America | Pages 286 pp Genres Novel, Parallel novel ISBN 0-394-58846-0 | |
Publisher Alfred A. Knopf (US)Chatto and Windus (UK) Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Similar Bharati Mukherjee books, India books | ||
Originally published September 1993 | ||
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..
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