"Raj Kamal Jha : She will Bulid Him A City" Book Launch at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 6:30pm on 2nd April 2015

Time : 6:30 pm Add to Calendar 02-04-2015 18:30:00 02-04-2015 20:00:00 68 "Raj Kamal Jha : She will Bulid Him A City" Book Launch Event Page : http://goo.gl/lSKLJZ Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001 DD/MM/YYYY

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Event Description : "Raj Kamal Jha : She will Bulid Him A City" Book Launch. 

Raj Kamal Jha is Chief Editor of The Indian Express which has won the International Press Institute's India Award for Excellence in Journalism three times. His novels include The Blue Bedspread, shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, winner of the 2000 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (Eurasia) and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; If You Are Afraid of Heights, a finalist for the Hutch-Crossword Book Award in 2003; and Fireproof, rated first in CNN-IBN's list of best books published in India in 2006. His novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Raj works in New Delhi and lives in Gurgaon.
As night falls in Delhi a mother spins tales from her past for her sleeping daughter. Her now grown-up child is a puzzle with a million pieces whom she hopes, through her words and her love, to somehow make whole again. Meanwhile, as the last train from Rajiv Chowk Station pulls away, a young man rides the metro and dreams of murder. In another corner of the city, a newborn wrapped in a blood-red towel lies on the steps of an orphanage as his mother walks away.
There are twenty million bodies in this city and this woman, man and child are only three. But their stories weave in and out of the lives of those around them to form a dazzling kaleidoscope of a novel.
Beautiful, beguiling and audacious, this is the story of a city and its people, of love and horror, of belonging and forgiveness: a powerful and unforgettable tale of modern India.
'Jha has a real knack for narrative, alternating urgency and delay to the point where his virtuoso handling of the story becomes almost tricksy. He is a remarkable writer’ Sunday Times. 'Something rather remarkable, almost a coming of age of the Indian novel’ John Fowles on The Blue Bedspread.
'Enchanting. Jha is not afraid to risk emotion, but he never falls into the trap of sentimentality. That is, in itself, a considerable achievement’ Daily Telegraph.

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"Raj Kamal Jha : She will Bulid Him A City" Book Launch at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 6:30pm on 2nd April 2015 "Raj Kamal Jha : She will Bulid Him A City" Book Launch at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 6:30pm on 2nd April 2015 Reviewed by DelhiEvents on Thursday, April 02, 2015 Rating: 5

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