50 Writers, 50 Books

by Pradeep Ed Sebastian, Chandra Siddan

Overview

A unique anthology of writing on Indian fiction. This book is the first of its kind: 50 essays by 50 writers who thought so passionately of their favourite book that they leapt to the task of representing it here. Within these pages ,Siddharth Chowdhury celebrates Upamanyu Chatterjee as 'a bona fide home-grown rockstar' and Anita Roy quotes David Godwin's description of The God of Small Things as 'a shot of heroin in the arm'. They are all celebrating moments of rupture in literary history. Not all of these essays may convince, or convince equally: some very humbly and modestly focus on what the work offers, without making any worldly claims of it being an 'Indian classic' or 'one of the top fifty'. But each of these essayists, several being novelists themselves, is fashioning their argument in a sarcophagus of their love of this book, not really caring who else will be at this party. And who can resist the beauty of such passionate claims?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789350294765
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers India
Publication date:	04/15/2013
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
File size:	755 KB

About the Author

Chandra Siddan was born and raised in Bangalore where she studied English literature. After a few years in New York, USA, and Karlsruhe, Germany, where she studied film-making, Chandra moved to Toronto, Canada, where she currently lives, writes and makes films.