Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgements v
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Imagining Cosmopolitics
6. Chapter 1. Families against the World: Ian McEwan 37
7. Chapter 2. James Kelman’s Cosmopolitan Jeremiads 66
8. II. Tour du Monde
9. Chapter 3. The World Begins Its Turn with You, or How David Mitchell’s Novels Think 97
10. III. Creating the World
11. Chapter 4. Global Noise: Arundhati Roy, Kiran Desai, Hari Kunzru 127
12. Chapter 5. Suburban Worlds: Rachel Cusk and Jon McGregor 154
13. Coda: The Cosmopolitan Imagination 180
14. Bibliography 187
15. Index 197