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The New New Delhi Book Club
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Tranquebar
| Author:
Radhika Swarup
| Language:
English
| Format:
Hardback
Publisher:
Tranquebar
Author:
Radhika Swarup
Language:
English
Format:
Hardback
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THE PORTRAIT OF A COMMUNITY, IN THIS CASE A DELHI NEIGHBOURHOOD, FACING THE UNCERTAINLY OF THE PANDEMIC TOGETHER.
As the pandemic brings India to a halt, an elderly woman falls down in her home and hears her leg break. Next door, a young girl stuck indoors persuades her taciturn old neighbour to set up a book club. A few doors down, a wife contemplates the plans she once made with an ex-boyfriend as her husband grows distant. A young boy falls in love with a girl on the rooftop opposite his. A migrant labourer sets off on foot back to his village as his work dries up. A market trader battles against being housebound until his cousin is felled by the virus. And the neighbourhood’s night watchman continues to come into work even as the rest of the area retreats indoors.
An interconnected collection of short stories, The New New Delhi Book Club shows both the hopes and fears of life during the pandemic.
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THE PORTRAIT OF A COMMUNITY, IN THIS CASE A DELHI NEIGHBOURHOOD, FACING THE UNCERTAINLY OF THE PANDEMIC TOGETHER.
As the pandemic brings India to a halt, an elderly woman falls down in her home and hears her leg break. Next door, a young girl stuck indoors persuades her taciturn old neighbour to set up a book club. A few doors down, a wife contemplates the plans she once made with an ex-boyfriend as her husband grows distant. A young boy falls in love with a girl on the rooftop opposite his. A migrant labourer sets off on foot back to his village as his work dries up. A market trader battles against being housebound until his cousin is felled by the virus. And the neighbourhood’s night watchman continues to come into work even as the rest of the area retreats indoors.
An interconnected collection of short stories, The New New Delhi Book Club shows both the hopes and fears of life during the pandemic.
About Author
Radhika Swarup is a lapsed banker and now a writer. Her work explores the themes of identity and exile. Her last novel Civil Lines looked at India's 2018 Me Too moment, and was longlisted for the Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Best Novel Award. Where the River Parts, her debut novel, dealt with the lives and fortunes of a Hindu–Muslim couple parted in Punjab during the Partition of India and Pakistan and was chosen by Amazon India as one of their memorable books of 2016. It was also long listed by the Authors' Club for the Best First Novel Award.
Radhika lives in London and visits Delhi often.
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