Profound lines by diaspora authors that will stir up your nostalgia

Reflecting the fluidity of identity in a foreign land, Salman Rushdie carefully weaves fiction with his personal experiences as a British Indian writer. His yearning for a comfortable space called home is clearly visible in most of his writings. The characters of his short stories in "East, West" also mirror his nostalgia for a long lost home.

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Rohinton Mistry's effort to strike a fine balance between his identity as an Indian and a Canadian is a major theme of most of his books. His personal struggle to adjust in a new place while holding on to the past nostalgias is identical to most of his characters.

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Asserting his identity as a Russian-American novelist, Vladimir Nabokov shapes his characters in a way that they reflect the Russian way of life. His debut novel "Mary", although is a story of Mary and her idea of love but symbolically it also speaks of a yearning to return to the past.

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"In other words" is a beautiful non fiction narrative by Jhumpa Lahiri that records her struggle as she tries to string words into meaningful sentences in Italian. It reflects shades of her character and her consistent longing to run back to her own known language.

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Born in Trinidad, V.S. Naipaul is a British writer constantly trying to reflect his roots in almost all of his works. His works reflect an idea of the past and how its memory frequently generates certain emotions in him.

Despite her parental background and stay in London, Anita Desai retains her identity as an Indian author. Almost all her works capture the essence of India and the plight of Indian women. Her collection of stories, "The Artist of Disappearance" presents characters that are held by their past and the memories of it.

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As an Afghan-born American novelist, Khaled Hosseini uses the diasporic liberty productively to present a dreadful picture of the war in Afghanistan. He beautifully portrays his reminiscences of the home back in Afghanistan and how even the war could not ruin the idea of it. Although his first novel, "The Kite Runner" is an emotional tale of friendship and unconditional love, it also reflects Hosseini's idea of a lost home.

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Describing the changes involved when moving from an accustomed setting to an unaccustomed one, Jhumpa Lahiri's "Namesake" is a narration of seeking acceptance in a foreign land. As an American author with Indian roots, Jhumpa Lahiri beautifully portrays the idea of belonging to the past in almost all of her works.

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An essence of the cultural uniqueness of Bangladesh is integral to almost all the works of Monica Ali. Although she immigrated to England when she was three, she retains an idea of a home back there. "Brick Lane", her debut novel beautifully captures the apprehensions of moving to a foreign land.

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