Delhi Noir

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Fiction/Mystery • A Trade Paperback Originál
DELHI NOIR
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of originál noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with BROOKLYN NOIR. Each book is comprised of all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. The legendary city of Delhi, India, provides fertile ground for tales of darkness and despair.
Every morning, papers in Delhi abound with alarming stories: accounts ofthe unmitigated corruption and contract killing that make this city of more than fifteen millión tick; indications of increasing divisions between rich and poor that lead servants to murder masters and foment Maoist movements in the country's hinterland; synopses of so many rapes and sexual assaults that readers become numb to them. Yet the everyday depravity and anguish of Delhi life remains confined to news copy. Despite notable exceptions, authors of literature—particularly those who write in English—usually choose to... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Fiction/Mystery • A Trade Paperback Originál
DELHI NOIR
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of originál noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with BROOKLYN NOIR. Each book is comprised of all new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the respective city. The legendary city of Delhi, India, provides fertile ground for tales of darkness and despair.
Every morning, papers in Delhi abound with alarming stories: accounts ofthe unmitigated corruption and contract killing that make this city of more than fifteen millión tick; indications of increasing divisions between rich and poor that lead servants to murder masters and foment Maoist movements in the country's hinterland; synopses of so many rapes and sexual assaults that readers become numb to them. Yet the everyday depravity and anguish of Delhi life remains confined to news copy. Despite notable exceptions, authors of literature—particularly those who write in English—usually choose to ignore the capital's stains . . .
Delhi Noir's contributors are diverse: They are Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs; Punjabis, Biharis, Bengalis, and Keralites; men and women; gay and straight. . . What they have in common is the inclination to write delectable literature that doesn't shy away from the city's uncomfortable underside. Their fiction isn't politically cor-rect and refuses to pander to popular perceptions about India or its capital, perceptions that conform with the agendas of governments, glossy magazines, and multinational corporations . . .
— HIRSH SAWHNEY, from the introduction
brand-new stories by: Irwin Allan Sealy, Omair Ahmad, Radhika Jha, Ruchir Joshi, Nalinaksha Bhattacharya, Meera Nair, Siddharth Chowdhury, Mohán Sikka, Palash Krishna Mehrotra, Hartosh Singh Bal, Hirsh Sawhney, Tabish Khair, Uday Prakash, and Manjula Padmanabhan. Vissza