Memory of Light - Rilegato

Vanita, Ruth

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0670093513 ISBN 13: 9780670093519

Casa editrice: India Viking, 2020

Riassunto

<p>Preparations for King George the Third's fiftieth birthday gala are in full swing in Lucknow. As poets and performers vie to be part of the show, Chapla Bai, a dazzling courtesan from Kashi, briefly enters this competitive world, and sweeps the poet Nafis Bai off her feet. An irresistible passion takes root, expanding and contracting like a wave of light. Over two summers, aided by Nafis's friends, the poets Insha and Rangin, and Sharad, himself in love with a man, they exchange letters and verses, feeding each other the heady fruit of desire. When Chapla leaves for home, they part with the dream of building a life together. Can their relationship survive the distances?</p><p>Narrated in the voice of Nafis, <i>Memory of Light</i> weaves an exquisite web of conversations, songs, reminiscences around a life-changing love.</p>

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Informazioni sull'autore

<b>Ruth Vanita</b> taught at Delhi University for 20 years and is now professor at the University of Montana. She was founding co-editor of <i>Manushi</i>, 1978-90. She is the author of several books, including <i>Love&#8217;s Rite: Same-Sex Marriages in Modern India </i>(2005); <i>Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhti Poetry in India 1780-1870 </i>(2012); and <i>Dancing with the Nation: Courtesans in Bombay Cinema </i>(2017). She is the co-editor of <i>Same-Sex Love in India: A Literary History</i>, and has translated many works of fiction and poetry from Hindi and Urdu to English, most notably <i>Chocolate: Stories on Male-Male Desire </i>by Pandey Bechan Sharma &#8216;Ugra&#8217; (2008). This is her first work of fiction. She divides her time between Missoula and Gurgaon.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: India Viking
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0670093513
• ISBN 13: 9780670093519
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 210
• Contatto del produttore: Harder; https://www.edel.com; ; Neum�hlen 17; Hamburg; Hamburg; 22763; Germania