- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Akashic Books (10 Sep 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 193335478X
- ISBN-13: 978-1933354781
- Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 434,909 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The legendary city of Delhi, India, provides fertile ground for stories of darkness and despair. Brand new stories by: Irwin Allan Sealy, Omair Ahmad, Radhika Jha, Ruchir Joshi, Nalinaksha Bhattacharya, Meera Nair, Siddharth Chowdhury, Mohan Sikka, Palash K. Mehrotra, Hartosh Singh Bal, Hirsh Sawhney, Tabish Khair, Uday Prakash, and Manjula Padmanabhan. The eyes of the world are gazing at India - the world s largest democracy. But the books you read about this Asian giant only show part of the picture. Delhi Noir offers bone-chilling, mesmerizing takes on the country s chaotic capital, a city where opulence and poverty are constantly clashing, where old-world values and the information age wage a constant battle. Delhi Noir's 14 original stories are written by the best Indian writers alive today - the ones you haven t yet heard of but should have. They are veteran authors who have appeared on the Booker Prize shortlist and budding geniuses who your grandchildren will read about in English class. Delhi Noir is a world of sex in parks, male prostitution, and vigilante rickshaw drivers. It is one plagued by religious riots, soulless corporate dons, and murderous servants. This is India uncut, the one you re missing out on because mainstream publishing houses and glossy magazines can t stomach it.
About the Author
HIRSH SAWHNEY has written for the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, Time Out New York, Outlook, and the Indian Express. His parents migrated from Delhi to New York in the 1960s, and he moved to the Indian capital s Green Park area in 2005. He now splits his time between Delhi and Brooklyn and is working on his first novel. Read his writing at www.hirshsawhney.com.
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Format:Paperback
This is not a book for the faint hearted. In the India of today there are no cities more inscrutable than Delhi - and this book captures something of that flavour. The book is divided into thematic sections, and is tightly edited, and if anything, a little too tightly edited - all the stories feel like they are written by the same author. This is a good and bad thing at the same time - the narrative doesn't feel disjointed, but at the same time there's a strange similarity to the way in which the characters talk and curse.
Ultimately, this is a book about people who are controlled by destiny in strange ways - people who feel as if they are in control of their own lives, but are inexorably pulled into a vicious tangle of human relationships set in everyday delhi.
Ultimately, this is a book about people who are controlled by destiny in strange ways - people who feel as if they are in control of their own lives, but are inexorably pulled into a vicious tangle of human relationships set in everyday delhi.
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Delhi Noir
15 Sep 2009
Format:Paperback
The ancient Indian capital is the latest venue of the Noir Series and "India Uncut" is the most apt description that comes to mind. A talented line-up of writers, including both seasoned and new, tell tales of an urban existence unadulterated by political correctness, the agendas of governments and corporations, or the common perception of modern India as an emerging, secular superpower. Delhi Noir proves to be a thoroughly vivid, entertaining and insightful read. In editor Hirsh Sawhney's own words: "It's only natural that Delhi's book buying and publishing citizens would avoid such writing. Any insight into their hometown's ugly entrails would threaten their guilt-free gilded existence and the bubble of nationalistic euphoria in which their lives are contained."
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Very noir
6 Dec 2009
Format:Paperback
Delhi Noir is an interesting collection of stories written by new and old writers! The organization by neighborhood was especially fun for those of us who are well familiar with Delhi and the stories do reflect something of the dark side of these places. It is a nice corrective to the easy glamour of much of India's popular culture's self-representation and also to the endless gloomy statistics of writers focused on the need for reform and such in India. Like all noir, it shows the good, the bad and the ugly but unlike Maximum City's voyeuristic representation of the underbelly of Bombay/Mumbai, Delhi Noir explores the experience of Delhi with a much broader set of lenses. Particularly nice is the story by Uday Prakash, which is beautifully translated by Jason Grunebaum. If you love Delhi or you love noir or, like me, you love both, get this book!
Embellished Exotic Hype
13 Mar 2012
Format:Paperback
The stories I managed to sample struck me as plain insipid, clunky or humorless. If this is the crème de la crème of Delhi writing, perhaps they need to cast a wider geographical net to solicit more talented writers. The Introduction and Glossary were the sole saving grace.
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