Percival Everett’s novel “James” is told from the perspective of Jim, Huck’s unlikely companion in the Mark Twain classic “Huckleberry Finn.” Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic “Huckleberry Finn.” Published in March to widespread critical acclaim,“James” is told from the perspective of Jim, the escaped slave …
Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. He was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2017 for his novel, cryptically called 4 3 2 1, the story of four lives, “made of the same genetic material.” In books, we read Salman Rushdie’s trauma memoir, Gurcharan Das on the perils of being a liberal in contemporary India, Percival …
