In happily ever after, a woman, on 'her fifth drink, or maybe the sixth', struggles to make sense of her marriage - the reasons to stay and to flee tugging at her with equal force.
What follows is one of the most compelling dissections yet into the heart of a relationship - a relationship that has known rage and violence, repugnance and despair, but also one that has borne witness to tenderness and intimacy and promise.
In Kamal Trilok Singh's debut, nothing is as it appears - love is a gloved fist; marriage is, at once, a stone and a bird; and conversations are labyrinths, multicursal, with dead ends and a single exit. One enters blindfolded.
Kamal Trilok Singh is a writer. happily ever after is his debut novel.
Jeet Thayil is a poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He was born into a Syrian Christian family in Kerala. As a boy, he travelled through much of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia with his father, T.J.S. George, a writer and editor. He worked as a journalist for twenty-one years in Bombay, Bangalore, Hong Kong and New York City. In 2005, he began to write fiction. The first instalment of his Bombay Trilogy, Narcopolis, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the DSC Prize, and became a bestseller. His book of poems These Errors Are Correct won the Sahitya Akademi Award. His musical collaborations include the opera Babur in London. His essays, poetry and short fiction have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Granta, TLS, Esquire, The London Magazine, The Guardian and The Paris Review, among other venues. Jeet Thayil's most recent book of poems is I'll Have It Here.
In happily ever after, a woman, on 'her fifth drink, or maybe the sixth', struggles to make sense of her marriage - the reasons to stay and to flee tugging at her with equal force.
What follows is one of the most compelling dissections yet into the heart of a relationship - a relationship that has known rage and violence, repugnance and despair, but also one that has borne witness to tenderness and intimacy and promise.
In Kamal Trilok Singh's debut, nothing is as it appears - love is a gloved fist; marriage is, at once, a stone and a bird; and conversations are labyrinths, multicursal, with dead ends and a single exit. One enters blindfolded.
Kamal Trilok Singh is a writer. happily ever after is his debut novel.
Jeet Thayil is a poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He was born into a Syrian Christian family in Kerala. As a boy, he travelled through much of the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia with his father, T.J.S. George, a writer and editor. He worked as a journalist for twenty-one years in Bombay, Bangalore, Hong Kong and New York City. In 2005, he began to write fiction. The first instalment of his Bombay Trilogy, Narcopolis, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, won the DSC Prize, and became a bestseller. His book of poems These Errors Are Correct won the Sahitya Akademi Award. His musical collaborations include the opera Babur in London. His essays, poetry and short fiction have appeared in The New York Review of Books, Granta, TLS, Esquire, The London Magazine, The Guardian and The Paris Review, among other venues. Jeet Thayil's most recent book of poems is I'll Have It Here.
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