Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. Carl Sagan. One among us took this line very seriously and came up with a book who many hail as the most imaginative & accomplished debut by an Indian Novelist in years. When we interviewed her at your Adda, she was in the process of writing this book. So here we are with one very different book from the amazing Nilanjana Roy!
Overview of the book:
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Nilanjana Roy‘s dazzlingly original The Wildings zeroes in on the mysterious and danger-filled lives of cats in a Delhi neighbourhood. The Wildings is a full-fledged novel about both affection and animosity, neither of which is misplaced. It makes for compelling reading. Roy draws the reader quickly and effortlessly into the world of the feline creatures that live and wage a daily battle for survival in and around the alleyways and ruins of Nizamuddin. Prabha Mallya’s evocative black-and-white illustrations provide visual spine to the readable prose about the secret life of cats.
The Wildings are stray cats of the area. In a Shuttered House nearby is a bunch of feral felines, bloodthirsty and always spoiling for a bloody brawl. Among others, the Nizamuddin clan has Hulo, Beraal, Miao and Katar, besides Southpaw, the kitten for whom staying out of trouble is life’s biggest challenge.
If a debut novel can be equated with a cat’s first kill, The Wildings is as perfect a strike as Mara’s. Gripping, humorous and truly immersive, it is well worth a sequel.
Know the author:
Nilanjana Roy spent most of her adult life writing about humans before realizing that animals were much more fun; The Wildings is her first novel. Her column on books and reading for the Business Standard has run for over 15 years; she also writes for the International Herald Tribune on gender. Her fiction and journalism have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Caravan, Civil Lines 6, Guernica, the New York Times India blog, Outlook and Biblio. Some of her stories for children have been published in Scholastics Spooky Stories, & Science Fiction Stories and BeWitched. She is the editor of A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Food Writing. At one time, she used to blog as Hurree Babu at Kitabkhana, Indias first litblog; and some of her writing is available at Akhond of Swat. Nilanjana Roy lives in Delhi with two cats and her husband, and on Twitter. You can also know more about her in this exclusive interview we had with her.
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