A Person Is a Prayer
$37.72
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
31 July 2024
Summary
An intensely moving, lyrical, and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades.
Bedi and Sushma’s marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a faltering conversation about happiness and hope and agree to go in search of these things together. But even after their children Selena, Tara, and Rohan are grown up and have their own families, Bedi and Sushma are still sear…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857305893 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0857305891 |
| Author: | Ammar Kalia |
| Publisher: | Oldcastle Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Crime & Mystery Club Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 31 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 389mm x 157mm |
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Critics Review
‘Nuanced and deeply perceptive, an honest reflection of families and how we are inescapably shaped by them. A heartbreaking yet funny and poetic story of finding home in comfort over joy’ - Sarathy Korwar, award-winning musician
‘An exquisitely written, incisive and evocative family saga. Kalia explores cultural complexity and human frailty with compassion, wit and generosity of spirit’ - Jake Lamar, author of Viper’s Dream
About The Author
Ammar Kalia
Ammar Kalia is a writer, musician and journalist living in London. Since 2019, he has been the Guardian’s Global Music Critic and he has written for publications including the Observer, BBC, Dazed, Mixmag, Economist, Downbeat and Crack Magazine. In 2020 he published a collection of poetry and an accompanying album, Kintsugi: Jazz Poems for Musicians Alive And Dead, and in 2022 his essay on music and identity was included in the collection Haramacy. A Person Is A Prayer is Kalia’s debut novel and was shortlisted for the Unbound Firsts Prize in 2022.
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