A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2014 A New York Times Notable Book A Guardian Best Book of the Year A New York Times Bestseller Nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award "Hardly a soul writes of the listening and playing of music with such insight and tenderness. . . . There are moments of epiphany gracefully expressed, especially in regard…
Exquisite Cadavers' experiment delivers a book that is slyly funny and profoundly thoughtful. It is common for critics and readers to belittle women by assuming they write out of catharsis rather than to create. Exquisite Cadavers is not just a fierce rebuttal. It's a work of brilliance. ― Financial Times An inventive fusion of fact and fiction. ― Observer Fascinating... The cleverness of Kandasamy's bricolage is that…
Joseph contrasts the inner and outer lives of her characters, and the uneasy friction between new and old cultures, with all the wit and delicacy of a latter-day Mrs Gaskell.’ The Times ‘Joseph writes beautifully about quietness and stillness…’ Sunday Times ‘Joseph’s skill is finding the poetry inside modest dreams, small tragedies and disappointments.’ Metro ‘Joseph’s is a deep and unusual talent; she…
This is like Kafka in Deoria. Or Camus in the cow belt. But more accurate to say that Legal Fiction is an urgent, literary report about how truth goes missing in our land. I read it with a racing heart. -- Amitava Kumar, author of The Lovers Chandan Pandey goes looking for the story that lurks just out of sight, getting under the skin…
