About the Book

Inhabiting the weirdly wonderful world of Gooday Nagar are disillusioned playwrights and their trysts with soan papdi, vacuum-cleaner salesmen, armless ghosts and erstwhile revolutionaries with a fear of gobhi manchurian.
In this city that could be any and every city in India, lives have been disrupted by the Covid pandemic but put back together by thieving monkeys. People wake up in a post-apocalyptic world only to discover everything is made of cake, medieval English castles hide unlikely stories of murder and magic, and heaven-made marriages are unmade on earth.
Story after story in Karnoor’s surreal, spellbinding collection unearths the ironies of modern life and rewrites its philosophy with humour, in language that serves as both the medium and the message.

About the Author

Maithreyi Karnoor is the author of the English novel Sylvia, the Kannada novel Hettavara Neralu and the poetry collection Skinny Dipping in Tiger Country. Her English translations of Kannada novels A Handful of Sesame and Tejo Tungabhadra have won the Kuvempu Bhasha Bharati Prize for translation. She is a two-time finalist of The Montreal International Poetry Prize.
Karnoor is a former Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow in writing and translation at LAF and UWTSD. She was born in Hubli and is currently based in Wales where she is writing her third novel. There will be elephants in it.