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and this third book that Im writing takes place in Toronto and New York and Paris among the diaspora.Arudpragasam jumps from novels to the politics of caste to philosophy to Sanskrit poetry to Tamil-language writing and back again with ease.

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I have this little voice in my head that says I need to try—but those elements of novel writing are not what I am interested in.These are the psychological and the class conditions that make it the case that its impossible to hold me to a high level of truth or accuracy.and it showed me that there was a place in fiction and novels for a lot of what interested me about philosophy.

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INTERVIEWERAre you ready to say anything else about your new book yet?ARUDPRAGASAMI look at every novel I write as a kind of apprenticeship.and it certainly wasnt the case with this novel—even though I didnt mean for A Passage North to be about the genocide.

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Maybe it has to do with coming from a context in which books are not readily available and when you see a book.

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