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Meena Kandasamy
A fierce, tender, political collection that asks how to express the fullness of identity and desire in the face of a hostile state.
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A narrative of the early modern Indian sculpture known as the Mithuna couple.
Meena Kandasamy writes about the Mithuna couple, a seventeenth-century ivory sculpture from Tamil Nadu, India, depicting lovers…
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018
SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2018
A BEST BOOK OF 2017 Financial Times The Guardian…
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The Book of Desire is the award-winning (and Women’s Prize-shortlisted) writer Meena Kandasamy’s luminous translation of the Kamattu-p-pal, a 2000-year-old song of love and pleasure and the third part of…
A timely re-release of the astonishing, provocative debut by the Women’s Fiction Prize 2018-shortlisted author of When I Hit You
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Caught in the hook of love, a young woman marries a dashing university professor. She moves to a rain-washed coastal town to be with him, but behind closed doors she…
A slim, inventive novella that questions what divides fiction and memoir - Exquisite Cadavers is a bricolage of influence and a daring modernist short.
Varavara Rao: A Life in Poetry is the first-ever collection in English of poems by the Telugu poet, selected and translated from sixteen books that he has published. Having begun…
This book addresses issues related to the integration of digital evolutionary technologies and provides solutions to various challenges encountered during the implementation process. With real-time case studies, the book explains…
A collection of essays offering a creative look at crises past, present, future, and speculative.
Starting with the shared experience of crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and a…
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