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:

The correct answer is A, B and C only.

To understand why this is the correct choice, we can analyze the validity of each literary pair:

A) Ewan McEwan – Amsterdam (Correct Pair):
Amsterdam is a Booker Prize-winning novel published in 1998. The novel was written by the acclaimed English author Ian McEwan (represented in the question with a minor typographical variation as "Ewan McEwan"). Thus, this pair is correct.

B) Italo Calvino – If on a Winter’s Night A Traveller (Correct Pair):
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a famous postmodern frame-narrative novel published in 1979 by the renowned Italian writer Italo Calvino. Thus, this pair is correct.

C) Amitav Ghosh – The Circle of Reason (Correct Pair):
The Circle of Reason is the debut novel of the highly celebrated Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, published in 1986. Thus, this pair is correct.

D) D M Thomas – Everest Hotel (Incorrect Pair):
The Everest Hotel: A Novel is a 1998 book written by the Indian novelist Irwin Allan Sealy, not D. M. Thomas (who is best known for The White Hotel). Thus, this pair is incorrect.

E) Doris Lessing – The Testaments (Incorrect Pair):
The Testaments is a Booker Prize-winning dystopian novel published in 2019 by Margaret Atwood as a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. It was not written by Doris Lessing. Thus, this pair is incorrect.

Consequently, only pairings A, B, and C are correct.