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Letters to a Writer of Color (Paperback)
Deepa Anappara, Taymour Soomro; Contributions by Madeleine Thien, Tiphanie Yanique, Xiaolu Guo
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On the train from Karachi, as dusk begins to fall, Fahad's dreams
of his summer in London are fading. He is headed to Abad, the
family's feudal estate, where his father intends to toughen up his
sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family -- to make
him a man. Instead, over the course of one shimmering, indolent
season, Fahad finds himself seduced by the wildness of the land and
by the people he meets: those who revere and revile his father;
cousin Mousey, who lives alone with a man he calls his manager; and
Ali, a teenager like him, whose presence threatens to unearth all
that is hidden. Other Names for Love is a truly exceptional novel:
a luminous tale of memory and desire, inheritance and love, and the
search for a sense of home. Written with urgency and unusual
beauty, it marks the arrival of a stunning new voice in fiction.
Filled with empathy and wisdom, personal experiences and creative
inspiration, this is a vital collection of essays on the power of
literature and the craft of writing from an international array of
writers of colour. 'Electric essays that speak to the experience of
writing from the periphery . . . a guide, a comfort, and a call all
at once' Laila Lalami, author of Conditional Citizens What if we
reconsidered our assumptions about how fiction should be written?
And can we then apply our discoveries to both what we read and how
we read? This book explores these questions and encourages us into
a more inclusive conversation about storytelling, featuring: *
Taymour Soomro on resisting rigid stories about who you are *
Madeleine Thien on how writing builds the room in which it can
exist * Amitava Kumar on why authenticity isn't a license we carry
in our wallets * Tahmima Anam on giving herself permission to be
funny * Ingrid Rojas Contreras on the bodily challenge of writing
about trauma * Zeyn Joukhadar on queering English and the power of
refusing to translate ourselves * Kiese Laymon on hearing that no
one wants to read the story that you want to write * Deepa Anappara
on writing even through conditions that impede the creation of art
Plus essays from Tiphanie Yanique, Xiaolu Guo, Jamil Jan Kochai,
Vida Cruz-Borja, Femi Kayode, Nadifa Mohamed in conversation with
Leila Aboulela, Myriam Gurba, Mohammed Hanif and Sharlene Teo.
'Bracing and moving . . . No one interested in how we read and
should read fiction can afford to miss this' Pankaj Mishra, author
of Run And Hide
Discover this hypnotic novel about a boy's life-changing summer: an
unmissable read for fans of Damon Galgut, Brandon Taylor and Hisham
Matar. On the train from Karachi, as dusk begins to fall, Fahad's
dreams of his summer in London are fading. He is headed to Abad,
the family's feudal estate, where his father intends to toughen up
his sensitive boy, to teach him about power, duty, family -- to
make him a man. Instead, over the course of one shimmering,
indolent season, Fahad finds himself seduced by the wildness of the
land and by the people he meets: those who revere and revile his
father; cousin Mousey, who lives alone with a man he calls his
manager; and Ali, a teenager like him, whose presence threatens to
unearth all that is hidden. Other Names for Love is a truly
exceptional novel: a luminous tale of memory and desire,
inheritance and love, and the search for a sense of home. Written
with urgency and unusual beauty, it marks the arrival of a stunning
new voice in fiction. 'Such a deftly told and evocative story of
duty, masculinity and desire' Kamila Shamsie, author of Home Fire
The summer's unmissable literary debut, for fans of Damon Galgut,
Brandon Taylor and Hisham Matar On the train from Karachi, as dusk
begins to fall, Fahad's dreams of his summer in London are fading.
He is headed to Abad, the family's feudal estate, where his father
intends to toughen up his sensitive boy, to teach him about power,
duty, family -- to make him a man. Instead, over the course of one
shimmering, indolent season, Fahad finds himself seduced by the
wildness of the land and by the people he meets: those who revere
and revile his father; cousin Mousey, who lives alone with a man he
calls his manager; and Ali, a teenager like him, whose presence
threatens to unearth all that is hidden. Other Names for Love is a
truly exceptional novel: a luminous tale of memory and desire,
inheritance and love, and the search for a sense of home. Written
with urgency and unusual beauty, it marks the arrival of a stunning
new voice in fiction.
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