If You Are Afraid Of Heights - Softcover
Look at the picture on the cover, there's a child, a girl in a red dress; there's a bird, a crow in a blue white sky. And then there are a few things you cannot see.
-f r o m If You Are Afraid of Heights
But the crow sees everything: In Part One, a man and a woman meet in a midnight road accident and fall in love. In Part Two, a reporter arrives in a small town to uncover the story of a child's rape and murder. In Part Three, a young girl, shaken by suicides in her neighborhood, begins to fear for her parents' lives. And the lives of all of these characters overlap and intersect in a magical realm that lies somewhere between fantasy and reality. Ultimately, multiple coincidences and recurring motifs pull the parts together and reveal the ways in which all three tales are both their own stories and the many sides of one story.
-f r o m If You Are Afraid of Heights
But the crow sees everything: In Part One, a man and a woman meet in a midnight road accident and fall in love. In Part Two, a reporter arrives in a small town to uncover the story of a child's rape and murder. In Part Three, a young girl, shaken by suicides in her neighborhood, begins to fear for her parents' lives. And the lives of all of these characters overlap and intersect in a magical realm that lies somewhere between fantasy and reality. Ultimately, multiple coincidences and recurring motifs pull the parts together and reveal the ways in which all three tales are both their own stories and the many sides of one story.
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A ghostly, elliptical piece of prose of quite magical quality. -- Evening Standard
A powerful, haunting and sometimes shocking novel that deserves to be read at one sitting and then re-read. -- Irish Times
Almost a coming of age of the Indian novel. -- John Fowles
Enchanting . . . Jha is not afraid to risk emotion, but he never falls into the trap of sentimentality. -- Daily Telegraph
Jha combines the energy of a Salman Rushdie with the precise lyricism of an Amit Chaudhuri . . . It is a powerful novel, and I found myself haunted by it. -- New York Times Book Review
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A powerful, haunting and sometimes shocking novel that deserves to be read at one sitting and then re-read. -- Irish Times
Almost a coming of age of the Indian novel. -- John Fowles
Enchanting . . . Jha is not afraid to risk emotion, but he never falls into the trap of sentimentality. -- Daily Telegraph
Jha combines the energy of a Salman Rushdie with the precise lyricism of an Amit Chaudhuri . . . It is a powerful novel, and I found myself haunted by it. -- New York Times Book Review
This new novel by the author of The Blue Bedspread is truly one of the most profoundly original, deeply moving and extraordinarily beautiful books I have ever worked on. Raj Kamal Jha is an author to watch and this book is a real gem.
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- PublisherMariner Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 0156031736
- ISBN 13 9780156031738
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages293
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