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Namaste Trump and Other Stories

About Namaste Trump and Other Stories

"The short story 'Namaste Trump' starts in a deceptive domestic setting, where a servant from the hinterlands is patronized and exploited by an upwardly mobile urban family. But as the nation celebrates Trump's visit and copes with the pandemic, it ends up becoming a prophecy of endless haunting. This sets the agenda for a series of stories that delve into fracturing or broken lives in small-town India over the past fifty years. ... By turns poetic, chilling, and heartbreaking, ranging from understated realism to gothic terror, this is a book of stories about precarious lives in a world without tolerance"--

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781623717483
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 278
  • Published:
  • July 24, 2023
  • Dimensions:
  • 131x23x200 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 318 g.
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Expected delivery: December 26, 2024
Extended return policy to January 30, 2025
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Description of Namaste Trump and Other Stories

"The short story 'Namaste Trump' starts in a deceptive domestic setting, where a servant from the hinterlands is patronized and exploited by an upwardly mobile urban family. But as the nation celebrates Trump's visit and copes with the pandemic, it ends up becoming a prophecy of endless haunting. This sets the agenda for a series of stories that delve into fracturing or broken lives in small-town India over the past fifty years. ... By turns poetic, chilling, and heartbreaking, ranging from understated realism to gothic terror, this is a book of stories about precarious lives in a world without tolerance"--

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