Identify the correct pairs:
A) Ewan McEwan – Amsterdam
B) Italo Calvino – If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller
C) Amitav Ghosh – The Circle of Reason
D) D M Thomas – Everest Hotel
E) Doris Lessing – The Testaments
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Correct Answer :
A, B and C only.
Solution :
The correct answer is A, B and C only.
To identify the correct pairs, we can analyze each of the given author-book associations:
A) Ewan McEwan – Amsterdam: This pair is correct. Amsterdam is a Booker Prize-winning novel (1998) written by the acclaimed English novelist Ian McEwan (spelled as Ewan McEwan in the option).
B) Italo Calvino – If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller: This pair is correct. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a masterpiece of postmodern metafiction by the Italian writer Italo Calvino, published in 1979.
C) Amitav Ghosh – The Circle of Reason: This pair is correct. The Circle of Reason is the debut novel of the prominent Indian author Amitav Ghosh, published in 1986.
Now let us examine the incorrect pairs:
D) D M Thomas – Everest Hotel: This pair is incorrect. The Everest Hotel: A Novel was written by the Indian novelist I. Allan Sealy, whereas D. M. Thomas is renowned for his novel The White Hotel.
E) Doris Lessing – The Testaments: This pair is incorrect. The Testaments (2019) is a Booker Prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, written by Margaret Atwood, not Doris Lessing.
Since only pairs A, B, and C are correctly matched, the correct option is A, B and C only.
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