The Body by the Shore novel by Tabish KhairNEW: The Body by the Shore by Tabish Khair

USA publication scheduled for Spring 2022.

Narrated from the perspective of the post-pandemic world around 2030, but moving back in time to cover all of the 21st century, and even bits and pieces from the 20th and the 19th, The Body by the Shore is a novel of suspense and speculation about the complexity of life and intricacy of the earth.

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Shabana Azmi reads Tabish Khair’s story on the Virus Crisis as part of Decameron 2020

 

TO H. C. ANDERSEN

H.C.Andersen

Outside the walls you crashed with Danish words,
I hold a match between finger and thumb;
Its burning opens no door, no passage.
I can almost make sense in your language:
I’m no bewitched mermaid; I have my tongue,
And poems flutter in its cage like birds.

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