About two-thirds of the way into Booker’s award-winning novel “Tomb of Sand,” there’s a sort of dream sequence where author Geetanjali Shree describes a conclave of score writers sitting together, “each person with a business card in its place like a formal banquet”. So here are some essential score texts recommended by this passage
About two-thirds of the way into Booker’s award-winning novel “Tomb of Sand,” there’s a sort of dream sequence where author Geetanjali Shree describes a conclave of score writers sitting together, “each person with a business card in its place like a formal banquet”. So here are some essential score texts recommended by this passage
‘Zindaginama’ (1979) by Krishna Sobti
(Published in English under the same name, translated by Neer Kanwal Mani)
The magnum opus of one of the great Hindi writers of all time, this novel eschews traditional plot structures and character development to deliver a stunning, wide-angle view of the score and Indian society at large.
‘Basti’ (1979) by Intizar Hussain
(Published in English under the same name, translated by Frances W. Pritchett)
Intizar Hussain is one of the most important Pakistani writers of all time and Basti was the work that brought him to the world map (it is now in a New York Book Review editing).
‘Toba Tek Singh’ (1955) by Saadat Hasan Manto
(Several translations available)
The definitive short story of Manto’s score, the plot follows a deranged man on the border who can’t remember which country he belongs to. If Kafka had undergone the Partition, he would have written something very similar to “Toba Tek Singh”.
Tamas by Bhisham Sahni
No list of fiction scores is complete without tamas, the poignant story of a group of Sikh and Hindu families in Pakistan, forced to migrate to India overnight because of the events of partition. The Govind Nihalani film of the same name is just as devastating as the novel.
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