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The Keeper of Desolation: Stories
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HarperCollins India
| Author:
Chandan Pandey
| Language:
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Poignant and hard-hitting’ – GEETANJALI SHREE, winner of the InternationalBooker Prize 2022 for Tomb of SandA farmer urges the Prime Minister to change the formula for compound interest…A man refuses to make space for another on a train and is beaten to death…A family living in a single room forgets one member even exists…Surreal yet gritty, violent yet poetic – such is the world of Chandan Pandey’s fiction. Setdeep in the heart of present-day India, The Keeper of Desolation chronicles the warpedrealities our everyday lives must confront and battle. Immersive and provocative inequal measure, these stories from one of the most powerful voices of our generationmake for an arresting record of our times – while transcending time itself.
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Poignant and hard-hitting’ – GEETANJALI SHREE, winner of the InternationalBooker Prize 2022 for Tomb of SandA farmer urges the Prime Minister to change the formula for compound interest…A man refuses to make space for another on a train and is beaten to death…A family living in a single room forgets one member even exists…Surreal yet gritty, violent yet poetic – such is the world of Chandan Pandey’s fiction. Setdeep in the heart of present-day India, The Keeper of Desolation chronicles the warpedrealities our everyday lives must confront and battle. Immersive and provocative inequal measure, these stories from one of the most powerful voices of our generationmake for an arresting record of our times – while transcending time itself.
About Author
Chandan Pandey is the author of four short-story collections and two novels in Hindi. He
has won the Bharatiya Jnanpith's Navlekhan Award, the Vanmali Yuva Katha Samman,
the Shabd Chhaap Samman, and is a recipient of the Krishna Baldev Vaid Fellowship.
The translation of his acclaimed debut novel, Vaidhanik Galp, was published in English
as Legal Fiction in 2021.
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