Good Indian Girls: Stories - Couverture souple

Sidhu, Ranbir Singh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1593765312 ISBN 13 : 9781593765316

Editeur : Counterpoint, 2013

Synopsis

In twelve startling and vividly imagined stories, Ranbir Singh Sidhu overturns the lives of ordinary Indians living in America to bring us a bold debut collection, Good Indian Girls.

A woman attends a de-cluttering class in search of love. A low-level, drunkard diplomat finds himself mysteriously transferred to the Consulate in San Francisco, where everyone believes he is a great, lost poet. An anthropological expedition searching for early human fossils goes disastrously wrong and the leader turns to searching for the very first sounds made by humans. The wife of a retiring Consul pays tribute to her pet python by preparing to serve him to her dinner guests. A strange skull discovered outside an orphanage results in the creation of a cult around one of the charismatic young residents.

Unsettling, moving, insightful, humorous -- these beautifully written stories travel between despair and redemption as they illuminate the lives of often deeply flawed characters, and mark the emergence of a major new voice in American fiction.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ranbir Singh Sidhu was born in London and grew up in California. He is a winner of the Pushcart Prize in Fiction. a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and other awards. Trained as an archaeologist, he has lived and traveled throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Counterpoint
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1593765312
• ISBN 13: 9781593765316
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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• Personne responsable: non disponible