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Songs Our Bodies Sing

Songs Our Bodies Sing

A Heartfelt Collection of Stories | Exploring East-West Clashes, Human Connections & Struggles Across Cultures

Lindsay Pereira
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A heartbroken father in London turns to the Beatles to make sense of what he has lost. An antique dealer in Bombay rejects jingoism in favour of racism. Two immigrants in Toronto look for ways of belonging with a local rock band. And, in Paris, a tourist rejects long-held ideas about trust.

The East and West have clashed in innumerable ways since each first acknowledged the existence of the other. The stories of Songs Our Bodies Sing are set at these points of intersection. What they reveal are commonalities rather than differences, with protagonists on opposite sides of an imaginary divide, trapped in boxes of their own making.

This collection pulls back a curtain ever so slightly, in ways that are strange yet tender, to show how our struggles to understand the human condition are the same, wherever we are.

Imprint: Vintage Books

Published: Apr/2025

ISBN: 9780670098347

Length : 256 Pages

MRP : ₹499.00

Songs Our Bodies Sing

A Heartfelt Collection of Stories | Exploring East-West Clashes, Human Connections & Struggles Across Cultures

Lindsay Pereira

A heartbroken father in London turns to the Beatles to make sense of what he has lost. An antique dealer in Bombay rejects jingoism in favour of racism. Two immigrants in Toronto look for ways of belonging with a local rock band. And, in Paris, a tourist rejects long-held ideas about trust.

The East and West have clashed in innumerable ways since each first acknowledged the existence of the other. The stories of Songs Our Bodies Sing are set at these points of intersection. What they reveal are commonalities rather than differences, with protagonists on opposite sides of an imaginary divide, trapped in boxes of their own making.

This collection pulls back a curtain ever so slightly, in ways that are strange yet tender, to show how our struggles to understand the human condition are the same, wherever we are.

Buying Options
Paperback / Hardback

Lindsay Pereira

Lindsay Pereira was born and raised in Bombay. He studied at St Xavier’s College and the University of Mumbai and holds a PhD in literature for his work on gender attitudes implicit in nineteenth-century Indian fiction. He was co-editor with the late Eunice de Souza of Women’s Voices: Selections from Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Indian Writing in English (Oxford University Press). His first novel, Gods and Ends (Penguin Random House India), was shortlisted for the 2021 JCB Prize for Literature, and Tata Literature Live! First Book Award for Fiction. His second novel, The Memoirs of Valmiki Rao (Penguin Random House India), was published in 2023 and won the Godrej Literature Live! Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2024.

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