Blind - Couverture souple

Kumar, Sukrita Paul

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 935136478X ISBN 13 : 9789351364788

Editeur : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2016

Synopsis

In the blind home that Baba runs, the residents can see. Sharfu sees through fingers that weave bamboo strands into beautiful baskets. Even blinded by desires, Roni sees through her lovers. Bhola keeps a watchful eye over his friends through intuition and guile. Yet, when Baba, the guardian and mentor to them all, regains sight in an accident, all he sees is a corrupt and decadent world. Joginder Paul, one of the greats of Urdu literature, tells a powerful story about sight and perception, and how it impacts many facets of the human existence: territoriality, greed, selfishness, corruption, acceptance and discovery. Blind is a powerful metaphor for a country and a society that is crippled by spiritual and moral degeneration. Sparked off by a visit to a blind home in Nairobi, Paul's story appears to ask: of what use is sight for those who only look but do not see?

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

From one of the most cherished writers of Urdu literature comes a rare story about sight and blindness. Forged from his experience visiting a blind home in Nairobi, Joginder Paul crafts a masterly novel addressing basic issues vis-a-vis human existence - territoriality and borders, strife for political power, relationships and vested interests, corruption, accepting our frailties and discovering the truths about our own selves. Paul also includes a gentle indictment of those with sight: of what use is your sight when you can only look but not see. The blind home of the novel develops as a metaphor for the whole country, recording the spiritual malaise and blindness of contemporary society, its degeneration into sloth, corruption and darkness through journeys into the minds of its characters.

Biographie de l'auteur

Joginder Paul has published over thirteen collections of short stories. He is the recipient of the Qatar International Award, SAARC Lifetime Award, Iqbal Samman and Ghalib Award. Sukrita Paul Kumar holds the Aruna Asaf Ali Chair at the University of Delhi. Her poetry, translated by Gulzar, has been published as a bilingual book, Poems Come Home (HarperCollins).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Publishers India
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 935136478X
• ISBN 13: 9789351364788
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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