One Small Voice
An Observer best debut novel for 2023
$24.33
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
7 May 2024
Summary
India, 1992. The country is ablaze with riots. In Lucknow, ten-year-old Shubhankar witnesses a terrible act of mob violence that will alter the course of his life - one to which his family turn a blind eye.
As he approaches adulthood, Shabby focuses on the only path he believes will buy him an escape - good school, good degree, good job, good car. But when he arrives in Mumbai in his twenties, he begins to question whether there might be other roads he could choose. His new friends, S…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241996393 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241996392 |
| Author: | Santanu Bhattacharya |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 7 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 277g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 24mm |
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Critics Review
Epic in scope and yet composed of intimate moments … One Small Voice will be one of the best debuts this year * Guardian *[A] diverse, original take on contemporary India … [A] hugely engaging novel written with verve, intelligence and compassion * Irish Times *[A] beautiful coming-of-age novel * Observer, Meet the 10 Best Debut Novelists for 2023 *An intoxicating portrait of modern India, riven with internal political and cultural tensions, caught precariously between its colonial past and its ruthlessly modernising future … Terrific * Daily Mail *Epic … Guided by an intimate trajectory… Bhattacharya is a vivid and humane storyteller with a talent for encapsulating the social in the personal * Sydney Morning Herald *A joy to read, a full universe of feeling, an effortless page-turner by a born storyteller * Max Porter *Devastating and intimate, and political and radical all at the same time. Bhattacharya’s storytelling talents are limitless * Nikesh Shukla *A compassionate, many-layered chronicle of trauma and recovery following mob violence in contemporary India, One Small Voice is a wonderful, timely contribution to world literature * Tsitsi Dangarembga, author of This Mournable Body *Exceptional … Bhattacharya gives us India in all its messy glory … Heartbreaking and yet so full of hope * Melody Razak, author of Moth *Bhattacharya has the enviable ability of creating a cast of characters that feel as real as any person I’ve met. His effortless writing sings on the page * Kasim Ali, author of Good Intentions *
About The Author
Santanu Bhattacharya
Santanu Bhattacharya is the author of two novels, One Small Voice and Deviants, and several works of short fiction.
One Small Voice was an Observer Best Debut Novel for 2023 and was shortlisted for the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award and the Gordon Bowker Volcano Prize. Deviants won the Rainbow Award and BLF-Atta Galata Prize 2025, and was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize.
Santanu is the recipient of the Desmond Elliott Prize Residency, the Mo Siewcharran Prize, the Life Writing Prize, and a London Writers’ Award. He grew up in India and now lives in London.
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