A novel in stories follows generations of an Indian immigrant family that is shaped by wrongful conclusions about a letter, a secret sexual orientation and the responsibilities of two disparate cultures. A first book.
In a boxy apartment building in an Illinois college town, Romola Mitra, a newly arrived young bride, anxiously awaits her first letter from home in India. When she accidentally opens the wrong letter, it changes her life. Decades later, her son, Amit, back in the U.S., finds the same letter and thinks he has discovered his mother's secret. But secrets carry within them their own secrets sometimes.
Amit does not know that Avinash, his devoted father, lurked on gay chat rooms at times, unable to set aside his lifelong attraction to men. Avinash, for his part, had no idea about the memories of a starry romance his dutiful wife kept tucked away among her silk saris. As Amit settles down as a computer engineer in San Francisco, he too is torn between his new life here and his duties toward the one he has left behind in India.
Don't Let Him Know sweeps up multiple generations of a family, moving from an illicit encounter in a Calcutta park to an unlikely friendship forged at a Carbondale gay bar, from midnight snacks of a great-grandmother's mango chutney to wayward temptations at a McDonald's drive-thru. Tender, funny, and beautifully told, it is an unforgettable story about the sacrifices we make for those we love.
Recenzijas
This artful novel is a true delight. It dances across continents and through time * Daily Mail * With a tender yet exacting gaze, Sandip Roy creates a mesmerizing tableau of family life in an era of transformation, migration, and upheaval * Tahmima Anam, author of A Golden Age * A believable and wonderfully written story of secrets between the generations * The Times * Sandip Roys compelling characters strive to negotiate the distances between continents, generations and sexualities; through a dazzling mosaic of narrative snapshots Roy captures the arcs of entire lifetimes * Manil Suri * Gripping and surprising Captures the heart of modern Indian life and is masterful at demonstrating the mystery behind all families * Stylist * A story rich with the exhilaration of the future, and heavy with the tug of the past. I loved it * Neil Bartlett *
Papildus informācija
A tender, powerful, and beautifully told story of displacement, Don't Let Him Know marks the arrival of a brave new voice in Indian literature
SANDIP ROY is a writer and journalist based in Kolkata. He has been a long-time commentator on National Public Radios Morning Edition, one of the most listened-to radio programmes in the US, and has a weekly radio postcard for public radio in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has been Senior Editor at the popular Indian news portal Firstpost.com and editor with New America Media. Sandip has won several awards for journalism and contributed to various an thologies including Storywallah!, Contours of the Heart, Because I Have a Voice: Queer Politics in India,Out! Stories from the New Queer India, New California Writing 2011 and The Phobic and the Erotic: The Politics of Sexualities in Contemporary India. Dont Let Him Know has been shortlisted for the Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for Fiction, and longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, the Frank OConnor Short Story Award and the Green Carnation Prize.
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