Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I Imagining Cosmopolitics; Chapter 1 Families against the World: Ian McEwan; Chapter 2 James Kelman's Cosmopolitan Jeremiads; Part II Tour du Monde; Chapter 3 The World Begins Its Turn with You, or How David Mitchell's Novels Think; Part III Creating the World; Chapter 4 Global Noise: Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru; Chapter 5 Suburban Worlds: Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor; Coda: The Cosmopolitan Imagination; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Advances the idea of the cosmopolitan novel and delineates its main features
