Little Hands of Silk
Ajay Vishwanathan(Author)
Inkshares (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 15. June 2027
Book
Paperback/Softback
280 pages
978-1-950301-51-5 (ISBN)
Description
In southern India, in 1992, silkworms feed on Mulberry leaves and spin cocoons of silk.
Six days a week, twelve hours a day, fourteen-year-old Manju and his friend Shiva toil in the brutal confines of the Factory, which runs under the merciless leadership of Pandu. Lives improve for the two boys when they cross paths with Vishal, a city-bred lad whose family owns the silk business. Vishal, who is battling his own demons, finds unexpected comfort in the company of his new-found friends.
However, menacing currents within the Factory continue to simmer under the surface, and things rapidly come to a head. Little Hands of Silk is a novel of loss-loss of empathy, of innocence, of life itself, but it's also a tale of hope and friendship that blooms as an antidote to the surrounding evil.
Six days a week, twelve hours a day, fourteen-year-old Manju and his friend Shiva toil in the brutal confines of the Factory, which runs under the merciless leadership of Pandu. Lives improve for the two boys when they cross paths with Vishal, a city-bred lad whose family owns the silk business. Vishal, who is battling his own demons, finds unexpected comfort in the company of his new-found friends.
However, menacing currents within the Factory continue to simmer under the surface, and things rapidly come to a head. Little Hands of Silk is a novel of loss-loss of empathy, of innocence, of life itself, but it's also a tale of hope and friendship that blooms as an antidote to the surrounding evil.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Target group
Young adult
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-950301-51-5 (9781950301515)
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Person
Ajay Vishwanathan has work published or forthcoming in more than one hundred literary journals, including The Minnesota Review, Sou'wester, Southern Humanities Review, The Potomac, and The Baltimore Review. His flash fiction, "Blanks," was picked by Pulitzer Prize winning author Robert Olen Butler as one of the finalists for Best Short Fiction 2015. Author of From a Tilted Pail, a short story collection from Queen's Ferry Press, Ajay is the founding editor at Lucid Lines Academy. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.