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Simsim: Longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2023

Geet Chaturvedi
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Anita Gopalan
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Old Basar Mal remembers his love and homeland that he lost in Sindh, Pakistan during the Partition. A young graduate gets into an imaginary relationship with a girl at a yellow window. The Mumbai land mafia is after Basar Mal and his library. A chatty book cover relates the plight of books. A silent Mangan’s ma washes and feeds a plastic doll she thinks is her son.

Poignantly written by Geet Chaturvedi, a major Hindi writer, and beautifully translated by Anita Gopalan, Simsim is a struggle between memory, imagination, and reality- an exquisitely crafted book that fuses the voices of remarkable yet relatable characters to weave a tale of seeking happiness, fulfilling passion, and reconciling with loss. Simsim is charming, and wonderfully original.

Imprint: India Penguin Classics

Published: Feb/2023

ISBN: 9780670097289

Length : 248 Pages

MRP : ₹499.00

Simsim: Longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature 2023

Geet Chaturvedi
,
Anita Gopalan

Old Basar Mal remembers his love and homeland that he lost in Sindh, Pakistan during the Partition. A young graduate gets into an imaginary relationship with a girl at a yellow window. The Mumbai land mafia is after Basar Mal and his library. A chatty book cover relates the plight of books. A silent Mangan’s ma washes and feeds a plastic doll she thinks is her son.

Poignantly written by Geet Chaturvedi, a major Hindi writer, and beautifully translated by Anita Gopalan, Simsim is a struggle between memory, imagination, and reality- an exquisitely crafted book that fuses the voices of remarkable yet relatable characters to weave a tale of seeking happiness, fulfilling passion, and reconciling with loss. Simsim is charming, and wonderfully original.

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Geet Chaturvedi

Geet Chaturvedi is one of the most widely read contemporary Hindi writers. The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the Raza fellowship for fiction writing, he was named among Ten Best Young Writers of India by the Indian Express. He won the 2021 Vatayan-UK Literary Award for his contribution to Hindi literature. His novel Simsim, translated into English by Anita Gopalan, won a PEN/Heim and was longlisted for JCB Prize for Literature. His works have been translated into twenty-four languages.

Anita Gopalan

Anita Gopalan is a translator of Hindi literature. Her translations include Geet Chaturvedi’s The Memory of Now (winner of the Anomalous Press Chapbook Reading Contest), Simsim (recipient of a PEN/Heim translation grant and longlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature) and The Funeral (featured in the Best Literary Translations Anthology, guest-edited Jane Hirshfield).

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