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Annie’s 2022 Year in Books
Take a look at Annie’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Annie Zaidi
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Dukhti-rag, India
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Sad Stories You are Old Enough to Hear
Eight years ago, I had my first essay accepted in the Griffith Review. 'Embodying Venus' was a meditation on women's bodies and (un)covering and the politics around it. There were a few more pieces in the journal since: 'Golden Girls' about the rise of young female wrestlers in India, 'Dangerous Little Things' about the significance of student politics, and a short story about ideological wars on
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Prelude to a Riot
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Love Stories # 1 to 14
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2012
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Gulab
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2014
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Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing
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2015
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Known Turf: Bantering with Bandits and Other True Tales
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2010
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Bread, Cement, Cactus: A Memoir of Belonging and Dislocation
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2020
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The Bad Boy's Guide To The Good Indian Girl
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2011
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City of Incident - A Novel in Twelve Parts
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Crush: 50 Poems
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2007
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| The Woman Who Climbed Trees is a searing tale of trauma, separation and the circumscription of women's lives on either side of the Indo-Nepal border. This debut novel shines with vivid detail, weaving in folklore and modern cinematic references to cr ...more | |
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| Do modern democracies inevitably succumb to majoritarian violence? This book seems to argue that it is not a bug and may well be a feature. Efforts to seek judicial redress have largely failed in India and it is true that exposure of the groups and i ...more | |
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| Have read this twice now. More poignant on the second reading, given how fraught questions of identity and community have become. These stories are remarkably varied in their approach and tonality. Some are about riots, others about losing trust and ...more | |
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| This is a great book. The title story forms an unusual trio of stories hyenas (it is not clear that the hyena is necessarily the same in each, or that the stories are connected). The Beast, a novella, is included in this collection and it is a sort o ...more | |
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| Indian Readers: 2013, dely is coming! | 205 | 289 | Dec 31, 2013 10:09AM | |
| Indian Readers: Who do you think is the newest kid on the block in Indian English Literature? | 59 | 384 | May 02, 2015 05:31AM |
“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.”
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“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”
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“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”
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“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
― Fear of Flying
― Fear of Flying
“There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.”
― The Sound of Things Falling
― The Sound of Things Falling
