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Tabish Khair
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Author : Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-03-17
Tabish Khair written by Cristina M. Gámez-Fernández and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 Furthermore, this volume is highly enriched by the presence of a hitherto unpublished play by Khair, entitled The One Percent Agency, which focuses on a tourism agency specializing in bringing “Bollywood”-style Indian weddings to foreign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.
Tabish Khair
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Author : Om Prakash Dwivedi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Tabish Khair written by Om Prakash Dwivedi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Where Parallel Lines Meet
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Author : Tabish Khair
language : en
Publisher: Viking Books
Release Date : 2000
Where Parallel Lines Meet written by Tabish Khair and has been published by Viking Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Poetry categories.
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.
The Thing About Thugs
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Author : Tabish Khair
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-02-20
The Thing About Thugs written by Tabish Khair and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-20 with Fiction categories.
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.
How To Fight Islamist Terror From The Missionary Position
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Author : Tabish Khair
language : en
Publisher: Interlink Publishing
Release Date : 2014-01-01
How To Fight Islamist Terror From The Missionary Position written by Tabish Khair and has been published by Interlink Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-01 with Fiction categories.
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.
Man Of Glass
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Author : Tabish Khair
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2010-06-11
Man Of Glass written by Tabish Khair and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-11 with Poetry categories.
Man of Glass is the first collection of poems by Tabish Khair in a decade, following the critically acclaimed Where Parallel Lines Meet (2000). In the three sections of this new collection, Khair draws upon three writers from across centuries, cultures, literary genres and languages: Kalidasa and his fifth-century Sanskrit play The Recognition of Shakuntala, Asadullah Khan Ghalib and his early nineteenth-century Urdu ghazals, and H.C. Andersen and his Danish 'fairy tales'. All three are united not only by Khair's chosen language of creativity, English, but also by a concern with reflecting about life and loss, identity and indoctrination, humanity and divinity, and the nature of things and being. Drawing subtly upon the past, Khair engages powerfully and movingly with many issues and events, particular and perennial, of vital concern to the reader today: immigration, Afghanistan, terror, love, loss, death, human duplicity, faith, prejudice, the Iraq War, genocide...
How To Fight Islamist Terror From The Missionary Position
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Author : Tabish Khair
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2014-02-20
How To Fight Islamist Terror From The Missionary Position written by Tabish Khair and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-20 with Fiction categories.
CAN THE GLASS EVER REALLY BE MORE THAN HALF-FULL? A young Pakistani academic relives his days sharing a cramped apartment in Aarhus, Denmark, with two unlikely bedfellows. They are Ravi, his incorrigible best friend and a wry observer of the human condition; and Karim, their fundamentalist Muslim landlord, whose apparent double life soon intrigues his tenants. While Ravi finds his jaded world outlook challenged when he falls for an unlikely Danish girl, and our narrator embarks upon a complicated love affair of his own, Karim's bizarre and secretive behaviour leads to creeping suspicions that something might, indeed, be rotten in the state of Denmark . . . By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position is a sparkling account of strangers in strange lands, told with wit and humanity.
Filming
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Author : Tabish Khair
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-06-14
Filming written by Tabish Khair and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-14 with Fiction categories.
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
Night Of Happiness
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Author : Tabish Khair
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2018-05-03
Night Of Happiness written by Tabish Khair and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-03 with Fiction categories.
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.
The Bus Stopped
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Author : Tabish Khair
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2012-07-12
The Bus Stopped written by Tabish Khair and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-12 with Fiction categories.
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