Helium

Name: Helium
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
SKU: 9781408833872
Price: 13.59 EUR
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By (author): Jaspreet Singh

On November 1st 1984, a day after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a nineteen-year-old student travels back from a class trip with his mentor and chemistry teacher, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, douses him in petrol and sets him alight. Years later the student, Raj, is compelled to find his professors widow, the beautiful Nelly. As the two walk through the misty mountains of Shimla, Nelly comes up against a nation in denial and Raj faces the truth about his fathers role in the terrible pogrom against the Sikhs. See more

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Weight: 256g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 08 May 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781408833872

About Jaspreet Singh

Born in India Jaspreet Singh moved to Canada in 1990. He is a novelist essayist short story writer and a former research scientist. He received his doctorate in chemical engineering in 1998 from McGill University Montreal and two years later decided to focus full time on writing. Seventeen Tomatoes his debut story collection won the 2004 Quebec First Book Prize. Chef his first novel about the damaged landscapes of Kashmir was a 2010 Observer 'Book of the Year' and won the Canadian Georges Bugnet Prize for Fiction. He has also been a finalist for four awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. His work was longlisted for DSC Prize for South Asia Literature and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and has been translated into French Spanish Italian Punjabi and Farsi. He lives in the Canadian Rockies. http://www.jaspreetsinghauthor.com/