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Sharma, Arnav Das

 
9780143439929: Darklands

Synopsis

The timeless tale of love retold India is reeling from an environmental catastrophe, water has replaced oil as the most valuable commodity and our cities have become nightmarish places infested with gangs, secretive corporations and powerful religious figures. An advanced form of technology enables the manufacture of humans in laboratories. In this ever-frightening world, Haksh, born in a lab, does what he shouldn t have: he falls in love with a human. Darklands a radical reworking of Emily Brontë s classic, Wuthering Heights is a coming-of-age novel about violence, revenge, transgression, boundaries and, above all, love: both all consuming and redemptive. Dark and bleak, it heralds Arnav Das Sharma as a major new voice in Indian YA fiction.

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À propos de l'auteur

Arnav Das Sharma is a New Delhi-based author and journalist. His work has appeared in publications across the country, like the Caravan, Vice, the Indian Express, Outlook, the Wire, Scroll and Hindustan Times. He has also held positions at Reuters and, most recently, the Quint. He's working on his second book.

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