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Global Human Connectivity Evolves In Surprising Ways And Is Enhanced Through Individual Parables In This Unique Book By Kiran Bhat
LOS ANGELES - illiNews -- The internet has connected – and continues to connect – billions of people around the world, sometimes in surprising ways. In his sprawling new novel, we of the forsaken world, author Kiran Bhat has turned the fact of that once-unimaginable connectivity into a metaphor for life itself.
In we of the forsaken world, Bhat follows the fortunes of 16 people who live in four distinct places on the planet. The gripping stories include those of a man's journey to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill; a chief's second son born in a nameless remote tribe, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are destroyed by loggers; a homeless, one-armed woman living in a sprawling metropolis who sets out to take revenge on the men who trafficked her; and a milkmaid in a small village of shanty shacks connected only by a mud and concrete road who watches the girls she calls friends destroy her reputation.
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Like modern communication networks, the stories in we of the forsaken world connect along subtle lines, dispersing at the moments where another story is about to take place. Each story is a parable unto itself, but the tales also expand to engulf the lives of everyone who lives on planet Earth, at every second, everywhere.
As Bhat notes, his characters "largely live their own lives, deal with their own problems, and exist independently of the fact that they inhabit the same space. This becomes a parable of globalization, but in a literary text."
Bhat continues: "I wanted to imagine a globalism, but one that was bottom-to-top, and using globalism to imagine new terrains, for the sake of fiction, for the sake of humanity's intellectual growth."
"These are stories that could be directly ripped from our headlines. I think each of these stories is very much its own vignette, and each of these vignettes gives a lot of insight into human nature, as a whole."
we of the forsaken world takes pride of place next to such notable literary works as David Mitchell's CLOUD ATLAS, a finalist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for 2004, and Mohsin Hamid's EXIT WEST, which was listed by the New York Times as one of its Best Books of 2017.
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Bhat's epic also stands comfortably with the works of contemporary visionaries such as Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick.
About the Author
Kiran Bhat was born in Jonesboro, Georgia to parents from villages in Dakshina Kannada, India. An avid world traveler, polyglot, and digital nomad, he has currently traveled to more than 130 countries, lived in 18 different places, and speaks 12 languages. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.
we of the forsaken world
216 pages.
Softcover: $19.99; ISBN: 978-1-77180-366-3
E-book, $9.99; ISBN: 978-1-77180-3687
Publication date: January 22, 2019
Published by Iguana Books
Website: http://iguanabooks.ca/
Available at amazon.com, and booksellers nationwide.
In we of the forsaken world, Bhat follows the fortunes of 16 people who live in four distinct places on the planet. The gripping stories include those of a man's journey to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill; a chief's second son born in a nameless remote tribe, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are destroyed by loggers; a homeless, one-armed woman living in a sprawling metropolis who sets out to take revenge on the men who trafficked her; and a milkmaid in a small village of shanty shacks connected only by a mud and concrete road who watches the girls she calls friends destroy her reputation.
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Like modern communication networks, the stories in we of the forsaken world connect along subtle lines, dispersing at the moments where another story is about to take place. Each story is a parable unto itself, but the tales also expand to engulf the lives of everyone who lives on planet Earth, at every second, everywhere.
As Bhat notes, his characters "largely live their own lives, deal with their own problems, and exist independently of the fact that they inhabit the same space. This becomes a parable of globalization, but in a literary text."
Bhat continues: "I wanted to imagine a globalism, but one that was bottom-to-top, and using globalism to imagine new terrains, for the sake of fiction, for the sake of humanity's intellectual growth."
"These are stories that could be directly ripped from our headlines. I think each of these stories is very much its own vignette, and each of these vignettes gives a lot of insight into human nature, as a whole."
we of the forsaken world takes pride of place next to such notable literary works as David Mitchell's CLOUD ATLAS, a finalist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for 2004, and Mohsin Hamid's EXIT WEST, which was listed by the New York Times as one of its Best Books of 2017.
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Bhat's epic also stands comfortably with the works of contemporary visionaries such as Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick.
About the Author
Kiran Bhat was born in Jonesboro, Georgia to parents from villages in Dakshina Kannada, India. An avid world traveler, polyglot, and digital nomad, he has currently traveled to more than 130 countries, lived in 18 different places, and speaks 12 languages. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.
we of the forsaken world
216 pages.
Softcover: $19.99; ISBN: 978-1-77180-366-3
E-book, $9.99; ISBN: 978-1-77180-3687
Publication date: January 22, 2019
Published by Iguana Books
Website: http://iguanabooks.ca/
Available at amazon.com, and booksellers nationwide.
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