About the Book

'A PROFOUND, LYRICAL NOVEL ABOUT DISPLACEMENT AND HOMECOMING' — SIDDHARTHA DEB

An old woman lies in bed in Punjab, dreaming of an India before Partition. One day she will walk again, and when she does, she tells herself, she will walk all the way to Delhi, she will tell the men who rule India what she really thinks.

‘In Dark Star Ranbir Sidhu not only contemplates the life of a shuttered, oppressed but wildly imaginative woman, he becomes her, and thus the reader does, too. A beautiful novel of transformation and heart-rending compassion.’ — Helen Benedict, author of Wolf Season.

‘A tour de force. In Ranbir Sidhu’s Dark Star an elderly woman in India journeys alone toward death. Her hypnotic soliloquy is a devastating indictment of the horrors of misogyny and the nightmare of nationalism; it’s also a meditation on time, memory, and the cosmos.’ — R.L. Marshall, author of A Separate Reality

About the Author

Ranbir Sidhu is the author of two previous works of fiction, Good Indian Girls (shortlisted for a Tata Literature Live! Prize) and Deep Singh Blue. He lives in Athens.