
Clone
Priya Sarukkai Chabria(Author)
Zubaan (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 15. April 2019
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-93-85932-43-4 (ISBN)
Description
A revolutionary take on the classic dystopian science fiction novel, Clone inaugurates a new kind of writing in India. Priya Sarukkai Chabria weaves the tale of a fourteenth-generation clone in twenty-fourth-century India who struggles against imposed amnesia and sexual taboos in a species-depleted world. With resonant and allusive prose, Chabria takes us along as the clone hesitantly navigates through a world rendered unfamiliar by her expanding consciousness. This slow transformation is mirrored in the way both she and her world appear to the reader. The necessary questions Chabria raises revolve around a shared humanity, the necessity of plurality of expression, the wonder of love, and the splendor of difference.
Clone's adventurous forays into vastly different times, spaces, and consciousness-animal, human, and post-human-build a poetic story about compassion and memory in the midst of all that is grotesque.
Clone's adventurous forays into vastly different times, spaces, and consciousness-animal, human, and post-human-build a poetic story about compassion and memory in the midst of all that is grotesque.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New Delhi
India
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-93-85932-43-4 (9789385932434)
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Priya Sarukkai Chabria is a writer, poet and translator. She has written several books, including Dialogues and Other Poems, Not Springtime Yet, and Generation 14.