Re: Lists of best new young novelist books

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: I'm reading Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Beautiful descriptions of people and settings. Like this: : Jaja did not move. Papa swayed from side to side. I stood at the door, watching them. The ceiling fan spun round and round, and the light bulbs attached to it clinked against one another. Then Mama came in, her rubber slippers making slap-slap sounds on the marble floor. She had changed from her sequined Sunday wrapper and the blouse with puffy sleeves. : Now she had a plain tie-dye wrapper tied loosely around her waist and that white T-shirt she wore every other day. It was a souvenir from a spiritual retreat she and Papa had attended; the words GOD IS LOVE crawled over her sagging breasts. She stared at the figurine pieces on the floor and then knelt and started to pick them up with her bare hands. : The silence was broken only by the whir of the ceiling fan as it sliced through the still air. Although our spacious dining room gave way to an even wider living room, I felt suffocated. The off-white walls with the framed photos of Grandfather were narrowing, bearing down on me. Even the glass dining table was moving toward me. : : : The New Yorker and Granta Magazine have both had their say about which of the latest crop of young novelists are the best. What do you all think of their picks? Have they left anybody out? : : Here is the New Yorker list: : : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 32 : : Chris Adrian, 39 : : Daniel Alarcón, 33 : : David Bezmozgis, 37 : : Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, 38 : : Joshua Ferris, 35 : : Jonathan Safran Foer, 33 : : Nell Freudenberger, 35 : : Rivka Galchen, 34 : : Nicole Krauss, 35 : : Yiyun Li, 37 : : Dinaw Mengestu, 31 : : Philipp Meyer, 36 : : C. E. Morgan, 33 : : Téa Obreht, 24 : : Z Z Packer, 37 : : Karen Russell, 28 : : Salvatore Scibona, 35 : : Gary Shteyngart, 37 : : Wells Tower, 37 : : Granada Magazine has been picking what they see as the best young British writers for years. Here are their lists: : : 1983 : : Martin Amis : : William Boyd : : Maggie Gee : : Kazuo Ishiguro : : Adam Mars-Jones : : Salman Rushdie : : Julian Barnes : : Ursula Bentley : : Pat Barker : : Buchi Emecheta : : Ian McEwan : : Shiva Naipaul : : Graham Swift : : Rose Tremain : : Clive Sinclair : : Alan Judd : : Philip Norman : : A. N. Wilson : : Christopher Priest : : Lisa St Aubin de Terán : : : : 1993 : : Kazuo Ishiguro : : Hanif Kureishi : : Ben Okri : : Esther Freud : : Caryl Phillips : : Will Self : : Iain Banks : : Adam Lively : : Helen Simpson : : Tibor Fischer : : Nicholas Shakespeare : : Philip Kerr : : Lawrence Norfolk : : Louis de Bernieres : : A. L. Kennedy : : Alan Hollinghurst : : Candia McWilliam : : Anne Billson : : Adam Mars-Jones : : Jeanette Winterson : : : : 2003 : : Monica Ali : : Nicola Barker : : Rachel Cusk : : Peter Ho Davies : : Susan Elderkin : : Philip Hensher : : A. L. Kennedy : : Hari Kunzru : : Toby Litt : : David Mitchell : : Andrew O'Hagan : : David Peace : : Dan Rhodes : : Ben Rice : : Rachel Seiffert : : Zadie Smith : : Adam Thirlwell : : Alan Warner : : Sarah Waters : : Robert McLiam Wilson : : And here is their list of the best young American novelists: : : 1996 : : Sherman Alexie : : Madison Smartt Bell : : Ethan Canin : : Edwidge Danticat : : Tom Drury : : Tony Earley : : Jeffrey Eugenides : : Jonathan Franzen : : David Guterson : : David Haynes : : Allen Kurzweil : : Elizabeth McCracken : : Lorrie Moore : : Fay Myenne Ng : : Robert O'Connor : : Chris Offutt : : Stewart O'Nan : : Mona Simpson : : Melanie Rae Thon : : Kate Wheeler : : : : 2007 : : Daniel Alarcon : : Kevin Brockmeier : : Judy Budnitz : : Christopher Coake : : Anthony Doerr : : Jonathan Safran Foer : : Nell Freudenberger : : Olga Grushin : : Dara Horn : : Gabe Hudson : : Uzodinma Iweala : : Nicole Krauss : : Rattawut Lapcharoensap : : Yiyun Li : : Maile Meloy : : ZZ Packer : : Jess Row : : Karen Russell : : Akhil Sharma : : Gary Shteyngart : : John Wray

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