My review of Kalpana Swaminathan's Venus Crossing was published in Sahitya Akademi's, Indian Literature journal (No. 256, March-April, 2010).
Glad to note that this book is on the shortlist of the Vodafone-Crossword Book Award (fiction) 2009. The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri and three other accomplished authors are on the shortlist. May the best book win.
This is the fiction shortlist for the Vodafone-Crossword award:
- The Immortals by Amit Chaudhuri – Picador India
- Family Values by Abha Dawesar
– Penguin Books India
- If It Is Sweet by Mridula Koshy – Westland India
- Nothing Is Blue
by Biman Nath- Harper Collins India
- Venus Crossing: Twelve Stories of Transit by Kalpana Swaminathan
- Penguin Books India
This collection of a dozen short stories by Kalpana Swaminathan is not like anything you would expect from your average IWE (Indian Writing in English) title. Swaminathan’s surgical realism, if we may give it that name, makes a brave departure from the surfeit of baggy prose and exoticisation that has come to characterize a large part of fiction being produced by Indians in the English language ...
To read the full review click here or on the image below.
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| The Rainbow of Pain. Review of Venus Crossing, Kalpana Swaminathan (Penguin 2010) for IL journal |
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