His Fathers Disease is a work of fine literary sleight of hand, weaving tales that immerse you deep in Assamese realities only to pull you up inexorably into the stiff wind of global India. Through ten extended stories, Aruni unveils the worlds second most populous country as youve rarely seen it: its natural magic on display alongside the tragic abuses and erasures that power the posters of technological progress that scream from its super-populated cities. Each story, by degrees, adds to a question that haunts the entire collection: what do we lose when we try to distill an entire universe into a convenient stereotype? As characters from folklore shed leaves on the pages, ethnic and religious prejudice are laid bare, underpinned with wry humour. His Fathers Disease deals with pivotal questions about the environment and territorial sovereignty, giving urgent insights into the experiences of an often-silenced and marginalised culture.
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Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
Publication Date: 25 Feb 2021
Publisher: Flipped Eye Publishing Limited
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780954157098
About Aruni Kashyap
Aruni Kashyap is a writer translator and Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. His short stories poems and essays have appeared globally including in Catapult The Boston Review The Oxford Anthology of Writings from Northeast The Kenyon Review The New York Times The Guardian UK the Hindu Juked Evergreen Review and Karthika Review. Winner of the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship for Creative Writing to the University of Edinburgh his poetry collection There is No Good Time for Bad News (Future Cycle Press 2021) was a finalist for the 2018 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize and 2018 Four Way Books Levis Award in Poetry. Aruni is the author of two novels; one in English and the other in Assamese: The House With a Thousand Stories (Penguin 2013) and Noikhon Etia Duroit (Panchajanya Books 2019). His Father's Disease is his first collection of short stories.