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Namaste Trump and Other Stories
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ISBN10: 1623717485
ISBN13: 9781623717483
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: Jul 25 2023
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.95
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781623717483
Publisher: Interlink Books
Published: Jul 25 2023
Pages: 278
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.95
Language: English
A collection of other stories from shining India--those not often told. The short story Namaste Trump starts in a deceptive domestic setting, where a servant from the hinterlands is patronized and exploited by an upwardly mobile urban family. But as the nation celebrates Trump's visit and copes with the pandemic, it ends up becoming a prophecy of endless haunting. This sets the agenda for a series of stories that delve into fracturing or broken lives in small-town India over the past fifty years. In the novella-length Night of Happiness, pragmatic entrepreneur Anil Mehrotra has set up his thriving business empire with the help of his lieutenant, Ahmed, an older man who is different in more ways than one. Quiet and undemanding, Ahmed talks in aphorisms; bothers no one; and always gets the job done. But when one stormy night, Mehrotra discovers an aspect to Ahmed that defies all reason, he is forced to find out more about his trusted aide. What will he discover: madness or something worse? In a series of three linked stories, The Corridor, The Ubiquity of Riots and Elopement, Khair traces, through the eyes of an adolescent, the tensions of living as a liberal Muslim in India in the 1970s and 1980s, tensions that isolate families, break friendships, and point to the violence to come. The narrator of these stories, now a busy professional, returns in the third person in another story, Olden Friends are Golden, about belonging and exclusion on WhatsApp. Then there is Scam, a flippantly narrated story about a crime that
can only be comprehended as a scam perpetuated by the victim, and in Shadow of a Story violence returns to a village family in an unimaginable shape. The Thing with Feathers is perhaps about hope, but it is hope beyond despair, hope perhaps gone mad: or, is all hope mad now? Finally, The Last Installment narrates two farmers, a father and a son, in a village of North India, caught in a corporate vice: the breathless sentences of the story making the reader sense the desperation of the central character as he finally fights to breathe, to live. By turns poetic, chilling, and heartbreaking, ranging from understated realism to gothic terror, this is a book of stories about precarious lives in a world without tolerance. Praise for Tabish Khair Ingenious and mischievous ...
- The New Yorker Khair writes brilliantly ... Unmissable ...
- The Times Irreverent, intelligent, and explosive.
- The Independent For a book so concise and witty, it is also surprisingly textured ...
- The New Republic The picture that emerges may sear your soul much like your all-time favorite film.
- India Today Intelligent and argumentative ...
- London Review of Books
- The New Yorker Khair writes brilliantly ... Unmissable ...
- The Times Irreverent, intelligent, and explosive.
- The Independent For a book so concise and witty, it is also surprisingly textured ...
- The New Republic The picture that emerges may sear your soul much like your all-time favorite film.
- India Today Intelligent and argumentative ...
- London Review of Books
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