The Holder of the World

1993 novel by Bharati Mukherjee

The Holder of the World

First edition (US)

Author| Bharati Mukherjee
Language| English
Publisher| Alfred A. Knopf (US)
Chatto and Windus (UK)

Publication date

| September 1993
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages| 286 pp
ISBN| 0-394-58846-0
OCLC| 27641604

Dewey Decimal

| 813/.54 20
LC Class| PR9499.3.M77 H65 1993
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 Mughal-ruled 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]

## References

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1. ^ Maxey, Ruth (2019). "Mukherjee's 1990s Writing". Understanding Bharati Mukherjee. University of South Carolina Press. pp. 75–96\. doi:10.2307/j.ctvgs0bhh.9. ISBN 9781643360003. JSTOR j.ctvgs0bhh.9. S2CID 240671860.
2. ^ Appiah, K. Anthony (October 10, 1993). "Giving Up the Perfect Diamond". The New York Times.
3. ^ Gornick, Vivian (1993). "Playing Games with History". The Women's Review of Books. 11 (3): 15. doi:10.2307/4021775. JSTOR 4021775.
4. ^ Parameswaran, Uma (1994). "Reviewed work: The Holder of the World, Bharati Mukherjee". World Literature Today. 68 (3): 636–637\. doi:10.2307/40150581. JSTOR 40150581.
5. ^ Abair, Jacqueline M.; Cross, Alice (1999). "Patterns in American Literature". The English Journal. 88 (6): 83–87\. doi:10.2307/822192. JSTOR 822192.
6. ^ "10 best Asian novels of all time". The Telegraph. April 22, 2014. Retrieved December 6, 2020.

## Further reading

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* 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

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* 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

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* Hardcover — ISBN 0-394-58846-0 (ISBN 978-0-394-58846-9), published in September 1993 by Alfred A. Knopf.
* Paperback — ISBN 0-449-90966-2 (ISBN 978-0-449-90966-9), published in September 1994 by Random House

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