Tishani Doshi Bücher

Prem Kumar Patel ist entsetzt. Zum Studium hat er seinen Sohn Babo nach London geschickt - sicher nicht, damit er sich dort verliebt, und erst recht nicht in eine Engländerin! Jetzt ist Entschiedenheit gefragt. Prem Kumar zwingt Babo zur sofortigen Rückkehr, nimmt ihm den Pass ab und stellt ein Ultimatum: Sollten sechs Monate Trennung das Paar nicht zur Vernunft bringen, kann die Hochzeit stattfinden - allerdings in Indien. Und selbstverständlich werden Babo Patel und Siân Jones die folgenden zwei Jahre im Haus der Familie Patel verbringen. Doch Babo und Siân kann das nicht erschüttern, und so beginnt die Geschichte der Familie Patel-Jones. Eine Geschichte vom Zusammenwachsen und Zusammengehören, vom Einander- Fremdwerden und Sich-Wiederfinden.

'A shattering study of disaffection and belonging ... This is a concise novel of staggering depth ...Disturbing, deep and utterly extraordinary' Bidisha, ObserverAn Irish Times Book of the Year 2019Escaping her failing marriage, Grace has returned to Pondicherry to cremate her mother. Once there, she finds herself heir to an unexpected inheritance. First, there is the strange pink house, blue-shuttered, out on a spit of the wild beach, haunted by the rattle of fishermen in their catamarans. And then there is the sister she never knew she had: Lucia, who has spent her life in a residential facility.Soon Grace sets up a new and precarious life in this lush, melancholy wilderness, with Lucia, the village housekeeper Mallika, the drily witty Auntie Kavitha and an ever-multiplying litter of puppies. Here in Paramankeni, with its vacant bus stops colonised by flying foxes, its temples and step-wells shielded by canopies of teak and tamarind, where every dusk the fishermen line the beach smoking and mending their nets, Grace feels that she has come to the very end of the world. But Grace's attempts to play house prove first a struggle, then a strain, as she discovers the chaos, tenderness, fury and bewilderment of life with Lucia. Luminous, funny, surprising and heartbreaking, Small Days and Nights is the story of a woman caught in a moment of transformation, and the sacrifices we make to forge lives that have meaning.

Tishani Doshi is an award-winning poet, writer and dancer of Welsh-Gujarati descent. This is her first new book of poems since Countries of the Body, winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2006.

Tishani Doshi's Forward-shortlisted collection A God at the Door spans time and space, drawing on the extraordinary minutiae of nature and humanity to elevate the marginalised. Extending the territory of her zeitgeist collection Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, these new poems traverse history, from the cosmic to the quotidian.

Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods is Tishani Doshi's third book of poems, following two earlier, highly praised collections, Everything Belongs Elsewhere, published by Bloodaxe in 2012, and her debut, Countries of the Body, winner of the Forward Prize for best first collection