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Vinod Kumar Shukla’s Delightful ‘Novel in Twenty-Six Storeys’, Now in English!

 

YASI, RASA and TA are three restless children who live modest lower-middle-class lives at the edge of town, but their imaginations gleam with threads of many colours. Bored bicycles move away from their owners in the hope of being stolen … A light bulb in a sari shop mischievously switches itself on and off … Chalk doodles squirm and squiggle when adults are in the room … Sandals lying by the door plead to be worn…

The adults who play their games must enter many worlds – the one that prevails and the ones that are possible. They mumble and ask questions, but time and again they realize that a single glance won’t take in the whole sky.

In The Windows in Our House Are Little Doors, Vinod Kumar Shukla unrolls dreamy wisdom and brocade-like moments that catch the light and dazzle. This ‘novel in twenty-six stories’ is a thing of sublime joy and pure delight.

About the author:

Vinod Kumar Shukla is a poet and novelist from Raipur, Chhattisgarh. His first novel, Naukar ki Kameez, was published in 1979 and made into a film by Mani Kaul. In 1999, Shukla was given a Sahitya Akademi award for his novel Deewar Mein Ek Khidki Rehti Thi. A collection of his short stories translated into English as Blue Is Like Blue by Arvind Krishna Mehrota and Sara Rai received the Atta Galatta Prize for Best Fiction in 2019.

About the translator:

Satti Khanna teaches Indian Cinema and Modern Hindi Literature at Duke University. He has translated the works of Vinod Kumar Shukla, Mohan Rakesh, Suryakant Tripathi Nirala amongst others. About HarperCollins India: HarperCollins India is a subsidiary of HarperCollins Publishers. HarperCollins India publishes some of the finest writers from the Indian subcontinent and around the world, publishing approximately 200 new books every year, with a print and digital catalogue of more than 2000 titles across 10 imprints. HarperCollins India authors have won almost every major literary award including the Man Booker Prize, the DSC Prize, the New India Foundation Award, the Atta Galatta Prize, the Shakti Bhatt Prize, the Publishing Next Award, the Sahitya Akademi Award and the Crossword Book Award. HarperCollins India also represents some of the finest publishers in the world including Oneworld, Bonnier Zaffre, Usborne, Dover and Lonely Planet. HarperCollins India is also the only publisher to have been awarded the Publisher of the Year Award three times: at Publishing Next in 2015, and at Tata Literature Live! in 2016 and 2018.

B Paperback | pp 232 | Rs. 399/-

For interviews, reviews and excerpts, please email Jaseya.Fazili@harpercollins.co.in; 

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