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Namaste Trump and Other Stories

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"The short story 'Namaste Trump' starts in a deceptive domestic setting, where a servant from the hinterlands is patronized and exploited by an upwardly mobile urban family. But as the nation celebrates Trump's visit and copes with the pandemic, it ends up becoming a prophecy of endless haunting. This sets the agenda for a series of stories that delve into fracturing or broken lives in small-town India over the past fifty years. ... By turns poetic, chilling, and heartbreaking, ranging from understated realism to gothic terror, this is a book of stories about precarious lives in a world without tolerance"--

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781623717483
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 278
  • Udgivet:
  • 25. juli 2023
  • Størrelse:
  • 131x23x200 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 318 g.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..

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"The short story 'Namaste Trump' starts in a deceptive domestic setting, where a servant from the hinterlands is patronized and exploited by an upwardly mobile urban family. But as the nation celebrates Trump's visit and copes with the pandemic, it ends up becoming a prophecy of endless haunting. This sets the agenda for a series of stories that delve into fracturing or broken lives in small-town India over the past fifty years. ... By turns poetic, chilling, and heartbreaking, ranging from understated realism to gothic terror, this is a book of stories about precarious lives in a world without tolerance"--

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