Tabish Khair

Author : Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández,Om Prakash Dwivedi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443857888

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Tabish Khair by Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández,Om Prakash Dwivedi Pdf

This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings (both his theoretical proposals and his novels) from numerous different perspectives. Contributors engage from varied critical stances with Khair’s academic writings in a fruitful dialogue, analyze his social, political and religious concerns, and elucidate his characteristics as a novelist and his literary powers. Furthermore, this volume is highly enriched by the presence of a hitherto unpublished play by Khair, entitled The One Percent Agency, which focuses on a tourism agency specializing in bringing “Bollywood”-style Indian weddings to foreign tourists. In the process, it becomes a satirical commentary on the packaging of international tourism as well as the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive. It depicts the “metropolitan” India of the new millennium and inter-community relations in subtle and powerful ways.

Author : Tabish Khair
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780330539838

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Filming by Tabish Khair Pdf

Set primarily in India and spanning the twentieth century, Filming tells a series of stories, including that of one-time prostitute Durga, who is persuaded to give away her young son, Ashok, and that of Saleem, the son of a prostitute and two-times star of the silver screen. As these stories intertwine and overlap, they combine to create a novel that is simultaneously about the small details and the bigger picture, weaving together major historical events – including Partition, the assassination of Gandhi, the rise of photography and the Bombay film industry, and the development of barbed wire – with the everyday moments that make up the fabric of our lives. ‘Its plot, like a Bollywood melodrama, teems with characters and incident’ Guardian ‘Elegantly structured and taut with understated passion, Filming is a brilliant recreation of the lost world of early cinema and the continuing tragedy of religious hatred . . . Its delights as well as its message should find admiring readers everywhere’ Independent ‘Absorbing . . . Filming is distinguished by its ambition, its structural inventiveness and its highly evocative prose’ TLS ‘Underpinning this intriguing novel is a concern for the truth . . . In keeping with Khair’s pertinent and thought-provoking musings on self-deception, its skill lies in making us question our assumptions about what we do and why we do it’ New Statesman

Author : Tabish Khair
Publisher : Interlink Publishing
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623710460

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How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position by Tabish Khair Pdf

A HILARIOUS, SATIRICAL NOVEL FROM AWARD-WINNING INDIAN WRITER. Funny and sad, satirical and humane, this novel tells the interlinked stories of three unforgettable men whose trajectories cross in Denmark: the flamboyant Ravi, the fundamentalist Karim, and the unnamed and pragmatic Pakistani narrator. As the unnamed narrator copes with his divorce, and Ravi—despite his exterior of skeptical flamboyance—falls deeply in love with a beautiful woman who is incapable of responding in kind, Karim, their landlord, goes on with his job as a taxi driver and his regular Friday Qur’an sessions. But is he going on with something else? Who is Karim? And why does he disappear suddenly at times or receive mysterious phone calls? When a “terrorist attack” takes place in town, all three men find themselves embroiled in doubt, suspicion, and, perhaps, danger. An acerbic commentary on the times, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position is also a bitter-sweet, spell-binding novel about love and life today.

Author : Tabish Khair
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547731681

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The Thing About Thugs by Tabish Khair Pdf

A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian man’s misadventures in Victorian London as the city is racked by a series of murders In a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological research back home: Amir Ali, confessed member of the infamous Thugee cult. With tales of a murderous youth redeemed, Ali gains passage to England, his villainously shaped skull there to be studied. Only Ali knows just how embroidered his story is, so when a killer begins depriving London’s underclass of their heads, suspicion naturally falls on the “thug.” With help from fellow immigrants led by a shrewd Punjabi woman, Ali journeys deep into a hostile city in an attempt to save himself and end the gruesome murders. Ranging from skull-lined mansions to underground tunnels a ghostly people call home, The Thing about Thugs is a feat of imagination to rival Wilkie Collins or Michael Chabon. Short-listed for the 2010 Man Asian Literary Prize, this sly Victorian role reversal marks the arrival of a compelling new Indian novelist to North America.

Author : Tabish Khair
Publisher : Viking Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015052206888

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Where Parallel Lines Meet by Tabish Khair Pdf

In Where Parallel Lines Meet, his fourth collection of poems, Tabish Khair captures with uncanny lyrical precision, the fragile beauty of the past. This past is preserved in a country (India) he no longer inhabits, but in which lives the language of his memory. Each poem tells a storyýwhether it is in the smell of rain on earth, in the taste of mangoes ripening in the straw, in an old nurseýs tales, or in a murder in South Delhi. In poems about love, the family, landscapes, and belonging and exile, Khair returns to a time and place that hold within them all his deeply-felt experiences of both innocence and discovery, cruelty and charm. They express his acute awareness of how rooted we really are in both history and the physical world. Rich in metaphor and intensity, Khairýs poems shine with an inner luminosity and sensuality.

Author : Edited by Keki N Daruwalla
Publisher : Ratna Sagar
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8183321763

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Poetry Magic 7 by Edited by Keki N Daruwalla Pdf

Poetry heals. In a world torn by strife and shaken by stress, poetry is what children need. Poetry Magic takes children to the magical world of poetry and aspires to inculcate in them a love for it. Selected and edited by two of India s greatest living poets, Ruskin Bond and Keki N Daruwalla, these books are carefully graded into eight parts. Also available web support at www.ratnasagar.co.in

Author : Tabish Khair
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781447230939

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The Bus Stopped by Tabish Khair Pdf

A very angry bus driver, abandoned by his wife and going nowhere in his career; a sanctimonious conductor; a hijra, or eunuch, a remnant of India's Muslim glory days; a nervous, half-Indian businessman clutching a briefcase-full of cash; a right-wing Hindu matriarch; a young boy returning to his village after robbing his employer . . . They meet – and witness a tragic event – only because they are all travelling on the same bus, in the same direction, on the same day. With exceptional poise and beguiling simplicity, Khair introduces a range of voices, thoughts, ideas and identities, allowing each individual’s story to unfold gradually. ‘A novel that reflects deeply into the nature and circumstances of human mobility in our modern, unforgiving world’ Siddhartha Deb, Outlook ‘There is much to enjoy here . . . The twist at the end is hilarious. Khair’s talent is as a miniaturist’ Fiona Hook, The Times ‘It’s a fine work: short, sweet and brutal’ James Smart, Sunday Herald ‘A lyrical journey through small-town India’ Independent ‘[The Bus Stopped] allows stories to emerge with immediacy and leisure, with abrupt shafts of humour’ Guardian

Author : Tabish Khair
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529000979

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Night of Happiness by Tabish Khair Pdf

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. As layers and layers of Ahmed’s history are peeled off, Mehrotra finds himself confronting some deeply unsettling questions. Does Ahmed really have a wife? Does he keep her imprisoned in their flat? Is Ahmed deranged, or is he just making desperate sense of the horrors that afflicted him in the past? By turns poetic, chilling and heartbreaking, Night of Happiness is an unforgettable novel set in a world without tolerance.

Author : Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487006693

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The Family Clause by Jonas Hassen Khemiri Pdf

From acclaimed Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri comes a novel about a family on the verge of collapse. A grandfather who lives abroad returns home to Sweden to visit his adult children. His son is a failure. His daughter is having a baby with the wrong man. Only the grandfather himself is perfect — in his own eyes, at least. Over the course of ten intense days, relationships unfold and painful memories resurface. The grandfather confronts his past. The daughter faces an impossible choice. The son tries to write himself free. Something has to give. According to a long-standing family agreement, the grandfather has maintained his Swedish citizenship by coming to stay with his son in Stockholm every six months. Can this clause be negotiated, or will it chain the family to its past forever? Through a series of quickly changing perspectives, Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s The Family Clause intimately portrays a chaotic and perfectly normal family, one deeply wounded by the death of a child and the disappearance of a father.

Author : Tabish Khair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1902932544

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Just Another Jihadi Jane by Tabish Khair Pdf

Author : Tabish Khair
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789356292901

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The Body by the Shore by Tabish Khair Pdf

Harris Malouf, a killer with an erased official past, is visited by someone who could not be alive. In Aarhus, police officer Jens Erik cannot forget the body of a black man recovered from the sea some years ago. On an abandoned oil rig in the North Sea, Michelle, a young Caribbean woman, realizes that the man she has followed to this job is not what he claims to be. Set in the post-pandemic world around 2030, but moving back in time to cover all of the 21st century, The Body by the Shore is a novel about reason and emotion, love and despair, greed and hope. When all the narrative strands come together, a world of great terror and beauty is revealed.

Author : T. Khair,Johan Höglund
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137272621

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Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires by T. Khair,Johan Höglund Pdf

Throughout the ages, vampires have transgressed the borders of gender, race, class, propriety and nations. This collection examines the vampire as a postcolonial and transnational phenomenon that maps the fear of the Other, the ravenous hunger of Empires and the transcultural rifts and intercultural common grounds that make up global society today.

Author : Tabish Khair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195679032

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Babu Fictions by Tabish Khair Pdf

This book presents readings of contemporary Indian fiction in English, using "discourse" and class divisions in "Babu-Coolie" terms. It includes analyses of writings by such eminent authors as R. K. Narayan, Raja Rao, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Amitav Ghosh and others.

Author : Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780857283061

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Postliberalization Indian Novels in English by Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan Pdf

“Postliberalization Indian Novels in English: Politics of Global Reception and Awards” is a critical handbook that focuses on trends in contemporary Indian novels and discusses the global reception of these works. The volume provides a systematic approach to the study of Indian novelists that have not been (with certain exceptions) extensively examined.

Author : T. Khair
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230251045

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The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness by T. Khair Pdf

Starting with a re-examination of the role of the colonial/racial Other in mainstream Gothic (colonial) fiction, this book goes on to engage with the problem of narrating the 'subaltern' in the post-colonial context. It engages with the problems of representing 'difference' in lucid conceptual terms, with much attention to primary texts, and highlights the strengths and weaknesses of colonial discourses as well as postcolonialist attempts to 'write back.' While providing rich readings of Conrad, Kipling, Melville, Emily Brontë, Erna Brodber, Jean Rhys and others, it offers new perspectives on Otherness, difference and identity, re-examines the role of emotions in literature, and suggests productive ways of engaging with contemporary global and postcolonial issues.