Literary Comparison Flashcards
1
Q
‘Whom he shares a name not a life’
A
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
2
Q
‘Even she had once been someone else’
A
Americanah - Chimamanda Adichie
3
Q
‘Long enough to have lost their place in the society from which they had emigrated’
A
Sour Sweet - Timothy Mo
4
Q
‘It made him feel like a gatecrasher’
A
Sour Sweet - Timothy Mo
5
Q
‘She was a nobody here’
A
Brooklyn - Colm Toibin
6
Q
‘They had begun to be viewed with blatant hostility’
A
Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo
7
Q
‘The new emigrants were still tasting it, lost in wonder’
A
The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
