作者: Geetanjali Shree

Während Sunaina mit ihrem Bruder durch den Guavenhain streift und auf Mangobäume klettert, ist ihre Mutter Mai stets zu Hause. Unter den Argusaugen ihrer Schwiegermutter stampft sie Linsen, röstet Pa …

In einer fiktiven indischen Stadt nehmen die Spannungen zwischen Hindus und Muslimen immer weiter zu. Ideologisches Zentrum der Hindu-Fundamentalisten ist ein bedeutendes Kloster der Stadt. Es kommt …

Geetanjali Shrees Erzählungen handeln von Familien- und Beziehungsstrukturen, von sozialen und religiösen Konflikten ebenso wie vom Übergang aus der Tradition in die Moderne. Dabei erzeugt die Schrif …

In northern India, an eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband, and then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of conve …

The history of walls – as a way to keep people in or out – is also the history of people managing to get around, over and under them. From the Berlin Wall and the Mexico-US border, to the barbed wire …

WINNER OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZEA playful, feminist, and utterly original epic set in contemporary northern India, about a family and the inimitable octogenarian matriarch at its heart.A …

A bomb explodes in a university cafe, claiming the lives of nineteen students. The Empty Space begins with the identification of those nineteen dead. The mother who enters the cafe last to identify t …

In this beautifully crafted novel, roofs have a special place; they are meant for wild things, for romance and for play, they are places to dry pickles and grains while exchanging gossip about quiet …

An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces to gain a new lease on life. Her determination to fly in the face of convention – including striking …