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...SEASON OF THE WITCHEL: PW dumps on "Me Times Three" by Alex Witchel (Knopf; February 1). "NYT Style reporter Witchel makes her initial foray into fiction with a darkly humorous take on a young woman's growing pains...a disappointing offering from a writer whose privileged perspective on the culture, manner and style of NY in its 20th-century heyday might have yielded something less predictable, or at least more titillatingly revealing...
Published by Knopf, 418pp...
Published by Knopf...
...town of Yong Jing in Northern China is "so small that when the local canteen prepared a dish of beef and onions the smell reached the nose of every single inhabitant." And the 17-year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his friend Luo, 18, city youths from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, are dispatched to a small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting?and unwilling?assignees to a program of re-education through...
...Vidiadhar is also a great prose stylist and innovator. In The Enigma of Arrival and A Way in the World, he has evolved a signature blend of autobiography, artifice and journalism that tests (even by today's liberal definitions) the limits of conventional fiction. Half A Life (Knopf; 211 pages), the latest hybrid, begins in colonial India with a droll anecdote. The son of a Brahmin family marries a low-caste woman and forfeits his social standing. He is a maharaja's tax clerk who, influenced by Gandhi's politics of poverty, makes false account entries in favor of poor...