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The launch of Rupture by Sampurna
Chattarji - 6 September 2009 |
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HarperCollins Publishers India
and Siyahi Rupture by Sampurna Chattarji on Sunday, 6 September 2009 at 6.30 p.m. at Albert's 1589 Albert Hall Museum, JLN Marg, Jaipur - 302001 The author will be in conversation with Neeta Gupta, Publisher-Editor, Yatra Books. This will be
followed by an interactive session Chattarji probes
the actions and psyche of a cast of introspective misfits
across social strata and, at her best, throws a searing
light upon the inner feelings triggered by the pressures of
the outside world. Tehelka What would you do if the world were about to end? She is running on dream walkways into the day that will dawn bright, like any other, hanging by a thread on a piece of news, a pendulum swinging from now to then, before to after, panic to peace to panic, capital to city, city to suburb, remembering to forgetting? In the course of twenty-four hours, nine characters across five cities are faced with a pressing need to examine their past. As each of them confronts the realities within, the world itself explodes into chaos, the disintegration of civic order mirroring the breakdown of individual sanities. A powerful first
novel from a critically acclaimed poet, translator and
fiction-writer, Rupture is a book in which every
word, every emotion, resonates with a heightened sense of
intensity. Sampurna Chattarji brings to her writing a poetry
and potency that is rare, and the sheer pace of the
narrative pulls the reader in with its urgency. |
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