His Father’s Disease
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His Father’s Disease is a work of fine literary sleight of hand, weaving tales that immerse you deep in Assamese realities only to pull you up – inexorably – into the stiff wind of global India. Through ten extended stories, Aruni unveils the world’s second most populous country as you’ve rarely seen it: its natural magic on display alongside the tragic abuses and erasures that power the posters of technological progress that scream from its super-populated cities. Each story, by degrees, adds to a question that haunts the entire collection: what do we lose when we try to distill an entire universe into a convenient stereotype? As characters from folklore shed leaves on the pages, ethnic and religious prejudice are laid bare, underpinned with wry humour. His Father’s Disease deals with pivotal questions about the environment and territorial sovereignty, giving urgent insights into the experiences of an often-silenced and marginalised culture.
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| Dimensions | 127 × 203 mm |
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| Author | Aruni Kashyap |
| Author Bio | Aruni Kashyap is a writer, translator and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. His short stories, poems, and essays have appeared globally, including in Catapult, The Boston Review, The Oxford Anthology of Writings from Northeast, The Kenyon Review, The New York Times, The Guardian UK, the Hindu, Juked, Evergreen Review and Karthika Review. Winner of the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh, his poetry collection, There is No Good Time for Bad News (Future Cycle Press, 2021) was a finalist for the 2018 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and 2018 Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. Aruni is the author of two novels; one in English and the other in Assamese: The House With a Thousand Stories (Penguin, 2013) and Noikhon Etia Duroit (Panchajanya Books, 2019). His Father's Disease is his first collection of short stories. |
| ISBN | 9780954157098 |
| Number of Pages | 164 |
