Around the World in Five Novels

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Authors from five continents talk about family, identity, and inclusion in their far-ranging novels. Chilean novelist María José Ferrada’s How to Order the Universe, translated by Elizabeth Bryer, follows a father and daughter’s lives as traveling salesmen in Pinochet-era Chile. In British author Claire Fuller’s Unsettled Ground, the lives of fifty-one year old twins unravel after the death of their mother. The Wall Street Journal calls it “Timeless.. [a] shadowy family saga … marked by illicit love, violence, and blood debts.” Saudi Arabian author Eman Quotah’s Bride of the Sea chronicles the abduction of young Hanadi by her mother, who brings her from Saudi Arabia to Ohio. There, Hanadi’s culture, religion, and family collide. Mauritius-born writer Vinod Busjeet’s Silent Winds, Dry Seas interweaves a boy and his family’s personal turmoil of hope, love, and heartbreaking tragedy, and the Mauritian bid for independence from colonial rule. Indian novelist Shinie Antony’s The Girl Who Couldn’t Love follows a middle-aged spinster, Roo, who distances herself from all close relationships, including with her invalid mother in order to stave off memories of a haunted childhood — until she meets a much younger man who brings her secrets to the fore. • This event is part of the Fall for the Book Festival. Like Subscribe this video and then view the full schedule at https://fallforthebook.org/schedule/. • Spanish to English translation courtesy of / andresrivera89

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