REviews & other coverage
of Love Marriage

Greetings From Polysyllabia (The Washington Post)

Review (The Financial Times)

Voyaging beyond a Sri Lankan marriage (The Irish Times)

Sleeping with the enemy who isn’t one (The Independent, UK)

Review (San Francisco Chronicle)

Honest relationships in east-end Toronto (Toronto Star)

Is This Book Worth Getting? (New York Magazine)
A no-frills guide to five just-published first novels.

Tiger Burning Bright (Ms. Magazine (via Powells.com))

‘Love Marriage’ is a read best savored slowly (Charlottesville Daily Progress)

Review (Boston Globe)

Vignettes of Sri Lanka (The Star, Malaysia)

Mixed ‘Marriage’ (Ultrabrown)

When Every Happy Plot Doesn’t End With a Marriage Knot (Sepia Mutiny review)

Girls in the shadow (Himal Southasian)

Insight into the wider, human, aspect of the Sri Lankan tragedy (Confluence)

Review (Waterstone’s Books Quarterly)

Tragic union (India Today)

Interviews for Love Marriage

Masala Canada (Radio Canada International)
Scroll down to September 26, 2009, and click to listen.

Los Angeles’ KFPK, 90.7 (Radio Intifada)
Scroll down to August 20, 2009, and click to play or download.

BBC Tamil Service
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New York’s WBAI, 99.5 (Asia Pacific Forum)
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San Francisco’s KPFA, 94.1 (The Morning Show)
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New York’s WBAI, 99.5 (Asia Pacific Forum)
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SAJA Blogtalk Radio (Interview with Sree Sreenivasan)
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You can find additional audio and video here.

‘I wanted to write how war affects civil life’ (Rediff.com)

Using Her Grey Matter (Metro, UK)

A novel that feels true (The Sunday Times Magazine, Sri Lanka)
A daughter of Tamil immigrants in USA, V.V. Ganeshananthan, discusses her maiden novel that has been long listed for the Orange Prize for fiction

Tamil ties that bind (Toronto Star)
Novel set partly in Scarborough, explores rich family stories told to young daughter

Using Her Grey Matter (Metro, UK)

Sister Double Happiness (Ultrabrown, contains YouTube clips of reading)

Confronting Truth, Even When it Hurts (Esquire.com)
The author of Love Marriage, out in April, discusses how fact and imagination play into her writing.

Q&A with V.V. Ganeshananthan, author of “Love Marriage” (Sepia Mutiny)

India Inc. (The New York Observer)
A Bollypolitan elite is the newest creative class to kick into New York with art, fashion, literature

New Books by Stuart Taylor and Sugi Ganeshananthan (Washingtonian Magazine)

’02 Novelist: From Lowell House to Random House (The Harvard Crimson)
Former Crimson managing editor inks deal to publish two books of fiction