Padma Viswanathan is the author of two novels, The Toss of a Lemon and The Ever After of Ashwin Rao, published in eight countries and shortlisted for major prizes, and short stories published in such journals as Granta Online and the Boston Review. She has also written plays, personal essays, cultural journalism, and reviews. Her translation of the Graciliano Ramos novel São Bernardo is forthcoming from New York Review Books in their Classics series.
Statue of Ramos at Ponta Verde beach, Maceió, Brazil / Wikipedia
In her new translation of Graciliano Ramos’s São Bernardo, forthcoming early next month from New York Rev...
Toronto / Berkeley, California. Random House Canada / Soft Skull Press. 2014. ISBN 9780307356345 / 9781593766139
In her second novel, Padma Viswanathan takes on a difficult subject—the 1985 bombing of...