Keynote: In hierarchical New Delhi, two young men from
different sides of the tracks become friends leading to a cataclysmic event
that changes their lives forever
Description
When Ashwin, the crème de la crème of Delhi’s elite, meets Lallan, a
student from Patna looking to make his fortune, the friendship that develops appears
to overcome the fault lines of class and privilege. One night at a party,a
shocking incident leads one friend’s world to unravel with consequences that change
both their lives forever and also expose the myth of the New India as a land of
opportunity. An audacious debut narrated with great poise and aplomb, Fire
under Ash marks the arrival of Indian fiction’s latest star who takes a
coruscating look at Delhi’s beauty and brutality, writing the city as we’ve
never read it before.
Author
bio
Saskya
Jain holds an MFA in Fiction from Boston University, where she was the recipient
of the Florence Engel Randall Award for Fiction and the Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship
for travel to Iran in 2010. One of her stories was a finalist in the 2011
Asian-American Short Story Contest (judged by Yiyun Li), and her writing has
appeared in Literary Imagination, Hyphen Magazine (online) and The Baffler. She
was a resident at Ledig House in upstate New York and the writer-in-residence at
Goethe Institute, Bangalore.
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