Delhi Noir - Softcover

Sawhney Hirsh

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ISBN 10: 8172238533 ISBN 13: 9788172238537

Publisher: HarperCollins India, 2009

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Fourteen writers, young and established, male and female, gay and straight, use the devices of crime fiction and film noir to provide gripping, incisive and alternative perspectives on this city where people wake up to news stories every day about rape and murder, incest and corruption, mindless road rage and sudden political flare-ups. What they uncover is a chilling, often sordid and sometimes sensuous layer of life that surprises, shocks and amuses at the same timeAllan Sealy, Omair Ahmed, Radhika Jha, Hartosh Singh Bal, Siddharth Chowdhury, Ruchir Joshi, Meera Nair, Nalinaksha Bhattacharya, Mohan Sikka, Palash Krishna Mehrotra, Tabish Khair, Uday Prakash, Manjula Padmanabhan and Hirsh Sawhney

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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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