This compendium of 16 papers attempts to study the different perspectives of different Booker Prize winning writers. Critically analyzing the characters, plots, settings, description and conversations of their respective novels, it addresses the issue of the loss of lineage, tug of war between the rich and the poor, the crisis of human values, anxiety of being a foreigner, intricacies of displacement, assimilation and cultural clash, the problems of minority community, and post-colonialism and post-modernism.

The Booker Prize winning writers studied in this book include Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai, Arvind Adiga, Arundhati Roy, J. M. Coetzee and Nadine Gordimer.