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Michael Ondaatje, from The English Patient. London: Vinage, 1993 Vikram Seth, from An Equal Music, 1999. 7.Archaeologies of the Self: Fictionalising the Other Salman Rushdie, from Joseph Anton, 2012. Aleksandar Hemon, The Noble Truths of Suffering, 2008; Stairway to Heaven, 2006. 8.New East-European Diasporas: Questioning Return Kapka Kassabova, from Street without a Name Domnica Radulescu, from Train to Trieste 9-10. Gender, Diaspora and Memoir Yiyun Li, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers, 2005; Gold Boy, Emerald Girl, 2008. Ha Jin, The House Behind a Weeping Cherry, 2008. Vesna Goldsworthy, from Chernobyl Strawberries, London: Atlantic, 2005. Lara Vapnyar, from Memoirs of a Muse, 2006; Luda and Milena, 2007 Marina Lewycka, from A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, London: Penguin, 2005. 11-12.Globalising the Exotic Other Vikram Chandra, Eternal Don, 1997 Salman Rushdie, The Shelter of the World, 2008. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, The Headstrong Historian Zadie Smith, Hanwell Senior, 2007 Aravind Adiga, The Elephant, 2009. 13.From Diasporic Identity to Global Nomadism in Romanian and Romanian American Writing Ruxandra Cesereanu and Andrei Codrescu, Forgiven Submarine (bilingual edition, translated from the Romanian by Andrei Codrescu), Boston, MA: Black Widow Press, 2009. 14.Conclusion
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