BOOK LAUNCH of ‘MAY WE BORROW YOUR COUNTRY’ by The Whole Kahani
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https://www.waterstones.com/events/may-we-borrow-your-country-with-the-whole-kahani/london-gower-street
May We Borrow Your Country is a contemporary collection of stories and poems that looks at dislocation and displacement with sympathy, tolerance and humour. It is peopled by courageous, poignant, eccentric individuals who cross borders, accommodate to new cultures and try to establish an identity in a new place. In the process, they encounter different versions of themselves, like reflections in a room of trick mirrors.
a rich collection…with dry humour and poetic verve.
– Preti Taneja, Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize 2018
A thoroughly modern and lively collection which reaches out across multiple histories and distinctive worlds to capture some of the best in contemporary British Asian women’s writing today.
– Susheila Nasta MBE, Editor in Chief of Wasafiri
Read my blog on the wider meanings within the book title here: https://www.linen-press.com/may-we-borrow-your-country/.
Photograph by Jags Parbha.
Order the book:
Linen Press: https://www.linen-press.com/shop/may-we-borrow-your-country/
Foyles: https://www.foyles.co.uk/witem/fiction-poetry/may-we-borrow-your-country,the-whole-kahani-9781999604660
Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/may-we-borrow-your-country/the-whole-kahani/9781999604660
Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/May-We-Borrow-Your-Country/dp/1999604660/
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Amazon India: https://www.amazon.in/MAY-WE-BORROW-YOUR-COUNTRY/dp/1999604660/
Read all about The Whole Kahani and the previous anthology Love Across A Broken Map here: https://kavitajindal.com/love-across-a-broken-map/.
Flash Fiction in Popshot Nostalgia Edition
I didn’t know this fragment of her personal history till my own sixteenth year.
Delighted that my flash fiction ‘Surjit, the Sweet’ is in the Nostalgia issue of Popshot magazine.
Just out now.
The piece is a lightly fictionalised memoir of my grandmother in about 300 words.
Get the Nostalgia edition of Popshot here: https://www.popshotpopshot.com/magazine/20181116-issue-22-the-nostalgia-issue/.
Cover Unveiled for “May We Borrow Your Country” by The Whole Kahani
“May We Borrow Your Country” is a wry sideways look at individuals who cross borders, adapt to new cultures and select a self-identity, within their country or a foreign land.
The book, published by Linen Press, will be launched on January 26, 2019 at Waterstones, Gower Street. Save the date!
Cover design by Noruttam Dobey.
Read all about Love Across A Broken Map, the previous anthology by The Whole Kahani here: https://kavitajindal.com/love-across-a-broken-map/.
Photograph by Jags Parbha.
Poem for National Poetry Day
On the theme of ‘Change’
Coming Up in November: Mythic Harvest
at Lisnavagh House, County Carlow, Ireland
A wonderful writing retreat with the lovely people at Writing on Water sojourns.
I’ll be Guest Artist for the week and am looking forward to my time at Lisnavagh House.
Inspiring workshops with daily feedback for the participants, a marvellous location, comfortable accommodation, great food…AND the organisers have put together optional excursions too.
Limited places available. Details here: https://www.writingonwater.net/ireland2018
Ha’penny Bridge, River Liffey, Dublin.
Linen Press signs ‘The Whole Kahani’
Fab news: “May We Borrow Your Country”, the second anthology from the writing collective that I co-founded ‘The Whole Kahani’, will be published by the lovely Linen Press in early 2019.
Read all about Love Across A Broken Map, the previous anthology here: https://kavitajindal.com/love-across-a-broken-map/.
