"Fire Under Ash" by Saskya Jain - book launch & discussion at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 7:30pm on 19th September 2014
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"Fire Under Ash" by Saskya Jain - book launch & discussion
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Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
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Event Description : "Fire Under Ash" by Saskya Jain - book launch and discussion.
The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and Random House India celebrate the launch of Saskya Jain’s debut novel.
When Ashwin, a wealthy Delhi boy, meets Lallan, a struggling student from Patna looking to make his fortune, their friendship, with their mutual love for the almond-eyed Mallika, seems to transcend the fault lines of class and privilege. But one night at a party, a fateful incident leads their worlds to unravel with consequences that change both their lives forever, and expose the deep turmoil inherent in the frenetic energy of the new, aspiring India.
An audacious debut, “Fire Under Ash” marks the arrival of Indian fiction’s latest star, who takes a coruscating look at Delhi’s beauty and brutality, writing the city as we’ve never read it before.
After reading from her novel Saskya Jain will be in conversation with Sunil Sethi, journalist, columnist and television presenter.
Saskya Jain Born in Ahmedabad in 1982 to a German mother and Indian father, Saskya Jain grew up in Delhi. Educated at Berlin’s Free University and Columbia University, New York, she holds an MFA in Fiction from Boston University, where she was the recipient of the Florence Engel Randall Award for Fiction and the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship for travel to Iran in 2010. She was a Fall 2012 resident at Ledig House in upstate New York and the writer-in-residence at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, in January 2013. Her translation of the German theatre scholar Erika Fischer-Lichte’s The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics was published by Routledge in 2008. She and her husband, the German writer Christopher Kloeble, divide their time between Delhi and Berlin. “Fire Under Ash” is her first novel, and she is currently working on her second.
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Entry : Free (Seating on First-Come First-Served Basis)
Venue : Siddhartha Hall, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg, New Delhi-110001
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The Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and Random House India celebrate the launch of Saskya Jain’s debut novel.
When Ashwin, a wealthy Delhi boy, meets Lallan, a struggling student from Patna looking to make his fortune, their friendship, with their mutual love for the almond-eyed Mallika, seems to transcend the fault lines of class and privilege. But one night at a party, a fateful incident leads their worlds to unravel with consequences that change both their lives forever, and expose the deep turmoil inherent in the frenetic energy of the new, aspiring India.
An audacious debut, “Fire Under Ash” marks the arrival of Indian fiction’s latest star, who takes a coruscating look at Delhi’s beauty and brutality, writing the city as we’ve never read it before.
After reading from her novel Saskya Jain will be in conversation with Sunil Sethi, journalist, columnist and television presenter.
Saskya Jain Born in Ahmedabad in 1982 to a German mother and Indian father, Saskya Jain grew up in Delhi. Educated at Berlin’s Free University and Columbia University, New York, she holds an MFA in Fiction from Boston University, where she was the recipient of the Florence Engel Randall Award for Fiction and the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship for travel to Iran in 2010. She was a Fall 2012 resident at Ledig House in upstate New York and the writer-in-residence at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, in January 2013. Her translation of the German theatre scholar Erika Fischer-Lichte’s The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics was published by Routledge in 2008. She and her husband, the German writer Christopher Kloeble, divide their time between Delhi and Berlin. “Fire Under Ash” is her first novel, and she is currently working on her second.
Related Links : Books | Places for Books | Talks
"Fire Under Ash" by Saskya Jain - book launch & discussion at Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, 3 Kasturba Gandhi Marg > 7:30pm on 19th September 2014
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