| Publisher |
Tranquebar |
| Publication Year |
2026 |
| ISBN-13 |
9789371970266 |
| ISBN-10 |
937197026X |
| Binding |
Paperback |
| Number of Pages |
256 Pages |
| Language |
(English) |
| Weight (grms) |
248 |
| Subject |
General Knowledge |
Inhabiting the weirdly wonderful world of Gooday Nagar are disillusioned playwrights and their trysts with soan papdi, vacuum-cleaner salesmen, armless ghosts and erstwhile revolutionaries with a fear of gobhi manchurian.
In this city that could be any and every city in India, lives have been disrupted by the Covid pandemic but put back together by thieving monkeys. People wake up in a post-apocalyptic world only to discover everything is made of cake, medieval English castles hide unlikely stories of murder and magic, and heaven-made marriages are unmade on earth.
Story after story in Karnoor’s surreal, spellbinding collection unearths the ironies of modern life and rewrites its philosophy with humour, in language that serves as both the medium and the message.
Maithreyi Karnoor
Maithreyi Karnoor was born in Hubli, Karnataka. She has studied for degrees and worked at jobs in Bijapur, Pune, Hyderabad, and Bangalore, and tries to make Goa her home every few years. She puts solkodi in pasta and thinks she knows Konkani because she knows the word moga.
She has won the Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati Prize for translation from Kannada to English. She was shortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, and twice for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her essays, poetry, translations and reviews have been published in most mainstream and literary journals in India.
She is currently putting together her poetry collection Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country, and collaborating with Rhys Hughes on Rainbow Territory, a cross-genre literary work.
Maithreyi Karnoor
Tranquebar