How best to know a people? Let me count the ways. Madhuri Vijay writes about a Bangalore girl who goes off the beaten paths in Kashmir, looking for a tenuous connection to her past, in her highly acclaimed debut literary novel. Onaiza Drabu retells the stories that the Kashmiri folk tell each other, around the fire, on chilly winter nights. And P. S. Nissim, in reviewing these books, has something to say about how literary fiction contrasts with folk tales.
This is episode #5 of Bookasur, connecting two very different treatments of the beautiful state of Kashmir.
Books featured:
The Far Field, by Madhuri Vijay, published by 4th Estate.
The Legend of Himal and Nagrai, by Onaiza Drabu, published by Speaking Tiger.
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Published 11th Mar 2020. Find out more about Bookasur here: https://www.psnissim.com/p/bookasur.html
P.S. Nissim tweets at: https://twitter.com/ps_nissim
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