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#DesiBooksReco September 2022
This is a #DesiBooksReco roundup of September 2022 new and notable books by writers of South Asian origin.
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#DesiCraftChat: N. Kalyan Raman on translating Vaasanthi’s Breaking Free and all that a translator brings to a text
Hello and welcome to Episode 83 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. In today’s #DesiCraftChat, we have Kalyan Raman discussing his latest Tamil-to-English translation of Vaasanthi’s novel, Breaking Free. We also discuss how he chooses the works to translate,…
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#DesiCraftChat: Nandita Dinesh on how the hybrid, nonlinear novel form helped her write about the effects of war
Hello and welcome to Episode 82 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. In today’s #DesiCraftChat, we have Nandita Dinesh discussing her debut novel, This Place That Place, and how the hybrid, nonlinear novel form helped her write about the…
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#DesiReads: Namrata Patel reads from her debut novel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave
Hello and welcome to Episode 81 of Desi Books—news and views about desi literature from the world over. I’m your host, Jenny Bhatt. Thank you for tuning in. Today, in the #DesiReads segment, we have Namrata Patel reading from her debut novel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave.
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#DesiBooksReco August 2022
This is a #DesiBooksReco roundup of August 2022 new and notable books by writers of South Asian origin.
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Taking Indian horror fiction further, Chandrima Das reveals what terrifies young, urban India
P.S. Nissim reviews Chandrima Das’ horror story collection, Young Blood: Ten Terrifying College Tales.
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Microbes are the new frontiers in Tabish Khair’s post-pandemic speculative future
Jey Sushil reviews Tabish Khair’s The Body by the Shore.
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Nariman Karkaria and the Gujarati travelogue tradition
Veena Narayan reviews The First World War Adventures of Nariman Karkaria by Nariman Karkaria (tr. by Murali Ranganathan).
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Editor’s Note
Editor’s Note by Jenny Bhatt for the third edition of #DesiBooksReview
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#DesiBooksReview 3: Krishna Sobti shows us the horrors of a country at the brink of change
Suhasini Patni reviews A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There by Krishna Sobti, translated from the Hindi into English by Daisy Rockwell.
