John Sutherland, chairman of last year's Man Booker judges and author of How to Read a Novel, said: "Desai's novel registers the multicultural reverberations of the new millennium with the sensitive instrumentality of fiction, as Jhabvala and Rushdie did previous eras..
Between 1951 and 1965, he produced four uncommonly sensitive books of fiction -- "Catcher," "Nine Stories," "Franny and Zooey" and "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters" -- before retreating to his home in Cornish and refusing to publish any more.
An extraordinary novel by a Soviet Jewish doctor who died unpublished in 1982; its hero is Dostoyevsky, and its central enigma is the anti-Semitism of a great writer whose fiction is profoundly sensitive to human suffering and the pain of others, proclaiming the right to life and sunshine of every creature not Jewish.
(Brantley)20100603 'COLLECTED STORIES'Linda Lavin gives a smart, sensitive and funny performance as a fiction writer who acquires an adoring prot?e (Sarah Paulson) who is not as innocent as she might seem.
His sadistic sexual proclivities are about as sensitive as his classroom ravagings of student fiction.
This is a clean, bare, sensitive and undoubtedly well-intentioned piece of fiction by someone still in his 20s.
Her fiction is noted for its sensitive, sometimes wry look at the challenges and complexities of modern life in England and the United States.
"Checkpoint" is a work of fiction from one of America's most sensitive, sensible and observant writers.
Fiction by women seems the most sensitive to the variety, ambiguities and contradictions of radicalism.
Orwell's first novel, Burmese Days (1934), established the pattern of his subsequent fiction in its portrayal of a sensitive, conscientious, and emotionally isolated individual who is at odds with an oppressive or dishonest social environment.
