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About the Book

This edition of Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Asian Novels and Novelists is a pioneering attempt to redesign an in-depth information about 222 best Asian novels and 289 novelists of 37 prominent Asian languages— Arabic, Assamese, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Dogri, English, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian,   Japanese,  Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Korean, Lithuanian, Maithili, Malayalam, Malaysian, Manipuri, Marathi, Oriya, Persian, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Surinamese,  Taiwanese, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese—from its beginning to the present day. Contained here are entries on types of novels and novelists, on technical and formal aspects of novels, on critical approaches and theoretical frameworks that critics have developed for discussing the genre, as well as entries relating to various factors behind the rise, spread, and enormous popularity of the novels and novelists. The Encyclopaedia also contains entries tracing the origins and development of the novel in countries and regions around Asia. This edition incorporated many views about the nature of novels and the role of novelists in shaping its history.

About the Author

R.P. Malhotra is a noted writer and journalist. He did M.A. in Punjabi and History from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He has contributed a number of articles in journals and newspapers of national repute. Earlier he was associated with some of the important newspapers as Journalist. Presently, he is doing freelance journalism and has written several books.