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The Centre
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan UK
| Author:
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan UK
Author:
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
Original price was: ₹599.₹479Current price is: ₹479.
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Welcome to The Centre. The cost may be high, but you’ll never be the same . . .
Anisa Ellahi longs to become a translator of ‘great works of literature’, but right now she is stuck in her London flat writing subtitles for Bollywood films.
Then she is told about the Centre, an elite, invite-only programme that guarantees complete fluency in any language in just ten days. Seduced by all that it could make possible, Anisa enrols. But the Centre’s services come at a disturbing hidden cost. Still – it’s worth it, right? After all, success comes at a price . . .
By turns dark, funny and surreal, The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi takes the reader on a journey through Karachi, London and New Delhi. Throughout it interrogates the sticky politics of language, translation and appropriation and asks: what price would you be willing to pay for success?
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Welcome to The Centre. The cost may be high, but you’ll never be the same . . .
Anisa Ellahi longs to become a translator of ‘great works of literature’, but right now she is stuck in her London flat writing subtitles for Bollywood films.
Then she is told about the Centre, an elite, invite-only programme that guarantees complete fluency in any language in just ten days. Seduced by all that it could make possible, Anisa enrols. But the Centre’s services come at a disturbing hidden cost. Still – it’s worth it, right? After all, success comes at a price . . .
By turns dark, funny and surreal, The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi takes the reader on a journey through Karachi, London and New Delhi. Throughout it interrogates the sticky politics of language, translation and appropriation and asks: what price would you be willing to pay for success?
About Author
Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi has written plays, essays, book reviews and short stories. Her work has appeared in anthologies publications, and her plays have been staged widely. Ayesha also works as an editor and occasional translator. She was a contributing editor for The Trojan Horse Affair, a podcast by The New York Times. Ayesha is from Karachi and lives in London. The Centre is her debut novel.
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