印度英语文学的繁荣已经作为二十世纪末世界文坛的一大亮点载入史册。进入新世纪后,这种繁荣保持着强劲的发展后势,新近问世的一部印度长篇小说就是一个证明。据美国《时代》周刊2002年2月11日报道,二十年来一直以编辑为业的印度企鹅出版公司中年出版家戴维·戴维达斯在经过将近十年的努力之后,2002年1月在印度出版了他的长篇小说处女作《青芒果之家》(The House ofBlue Mangoes.维登菲尔德与尼科尔森版, The prosperity of Indian English literature has been recorded as a highlight of the world literature at the end of the twentieth century. After entering the new century, this prosperity has maintained a strong momentum in the development of a newly published Indian novel is a proof. According to a report by the U.S. “Time” magazine on February 11, 2002, David DeVidas, a middle-aged publisher of the Indian Penguin Publishing Company that has been editing for more than two decades, has spent nearly 10 years after January 2002 India published his novel debut The House of Blue Mangoes. Verdenfeld and Nicholson Edition,