The walls of Delhi / Uday Prakash ; translated by Jason Grunebaum.

By:

Udaya Prakāśa, 1951- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Grunebaum, Jason [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Hindi Publication details: Crawley, W.A . : UWA Publishing, 2012.Description: 227 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781742583921 (pbk.)
9789350096260 (pbk.)
174258392X (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 891.433 PRA 008675

Contents:

The walls of Delhi -- Mohandas -- Mangosil.

Summary: A sweeper discovers a cache of black money and escapes to see the Taj Mahal with his underage mistress. An untouchable races to reclaim his life stolen by an upper-caste identity thief. A slum baby's head gets bigger and bigger as he gets smarter and smarter, while his family tries to find a cure. In The Walls of Delhi, gifted storyteller Uday Prakash tells three stinging and comic tales of living and surviving in today's globalized India. Prakash is one of India's most original and audacious writers, and the India that he presents in his fiction is much different from what one generally finds in English-language writing by South Asian writers. Prakash portrays the realities about caste and class, and there is a charming and compelling authenticity in his stories that is sometimes absent from other fiction about South Asia. This writing sits at the center of a modernist aesthetic, as well as being highly political without a bit of didacticism or other heavy-handedness. These stories are tremendously popular in India, having been translated into several Indian languages.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore Reference	891.433 PRA 008675 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		008675
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore Reference	891.433 PRA 008676 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		008676

The walls of Delhi -- Mohandas -- Mangosil.

A sweeper discovers a cache of black money and escapes to see the Taj Mahal with his underage mistress. An untouchable races to reclaim his life stolen by an upper-caste identity thief. A slum baby's head gets bigger and bigger as he gets smarter and smarter, while his family tries to find a cure. In The Walls of Delhi, gifted storyteller Uday Prakash tells three stinging and comic tales of living and surviving in today's globalized India. Prakash is one of India's most original and audacious writers, and the India that he presents in his fiction is much different from what one generally finds in English-language writing by South Asian writers. Prakash portrays the realities about caste and class, and there is a charming and compelling authenticity in his stories that is sometimes absent from other fiction about South Asia. This writing sits at the center of a modernist aesthetic, as well as being highly political without a bit of didacticism or other heavy-handedness. These stories are tremendously popular in India, having been translated into several Indian languages.

Translated from Hindi.

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