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  • The Body by the Shore

    The Body by the Shore

    A novel of suspense and intrigue set in the post-pandemic world

    Harris Maloub, a killer with an erased official past, now in his fifties, is visited by someone who could not be alive and given an assignment. In Aarhus, Denmark, ...

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  • Quarantined Sonnets: Sex, Money and Shakespeare

    Quarantined Sonnets: Sex, Money and Shakespeare

    (E-book published by Kitaab, Singapore. Can be downloaded from Amazon. Profits donated to charity by author and publisher.)

    In this ebook, in powerfully original rewritings that combine humour and satire with acute social and ...

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  • Night of Happiness

    Night of Happiness

    Winner of the AK Singh Memorial Award for Best Fiction. Shortlisted for the Atta-Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival Prize.

    Shortlisted for the Tata Literature Live! Book of the Year Award.

    Shortlisted for the REC-VOW Book ...

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  • Jihadi Jane / Just Another Jihadi Jane

    Jihadi Jane / Just Another Jihadi Jane

    Shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Award.

    Nominated for the KIRKUS PRIZE in USA.

    Shortlisted for the Atta Galatta Bangalore Festival Book Prize: http://bangaloreliteraturefestival.org/year-2016/ag-blf-book-prize/

    Shortlisted ...

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  • The New Xenophobia

    The New Xenophobia

    Shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Award.

     

    Pnina Werbner, Professor Emerita, Keele University, UK:

    “A reflective, deeply personal account of what makes contemporary xenophobia new, written by a highly esteemed novelist, poet ...

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  • How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (2012)

    How to Fight Islamist Terror from the Missionary Position (2012)

    Shortlisted for Prix de l'Inapercu, 2014 (France)

    • The Times (on Saturday), UK: Khair writes brilliantly about racism, and the misunderstanding between rich and poor. Unmissable.

    • The Independent, UK: Who wouldn’t be ...

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  • The Thing About Thugs (2010)

    The Thing About Thugs (2010)

    Shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, the DSC Prize for South Asia, and the Hindu Best Fiction Prize. The New Yorker

    “Khair’s novel is ingenious and mischievous not only in its powerful subtext about racial profiling ...

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  • Filming, a Love Story by Tabish Khair (2007)

    Filming, a Love Story by Tabish Khair (2007)

    Shortlisted for the Crossword Literary Prize (India) and the Aloa Prize (Denmark) The Independent, UK

    Superb... Elegantly structured and taut with understated passion, Filming is a brilliant recreation of the lost world of ...

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  • The Bus Stopped (2004)

    The Bus Stopped (2004)

    Shortlisted for the Encore Award (UK) and longlisted for a translation prize in France.

     

    Outlook, India

    "On the surface a book about a bus journey, The Bus Stopped is a novel that reflects deeply into the nature and ...

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  • Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires (2012)

    Transnational and Postcolonial Vampires (2012)

    A collection of academic papers on the vampire by major scholars, co-edited by Khair.

    Contributers include David Punter, Elleke Boehmer, Ken Gelder, Glennis Byron and Justin ...

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  • Man of Glass: Poems (2010)

    Man of Glass: Poems (2010)

    PUBLISHED IN 2010 BY HARPER COLLINS:
    MAN OF GLASS (Harper Collins), Khair's first collection of poems in a decade. For details, see
    http://www.harpercollins.co.in/BookDetail.asp?Book_Code=2542

    "Drawing subtly upon the past, Khair ...

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  • The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere (2009)

    The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness: Ghosts from Elsewhere (2009)

    For further details, see http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=368170

    ISBN 978-0-230-23406-2 www.palgrave.com Printed in Great Britain Cover illustration © iStockphoto.com

    ‘This is a fascinating, diverse and rich book ...

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  • Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing (2005/2006)

    Other Routes: 1500 Years of African and Asian Travel Writing (2005/2006)

    (Oxford: Signal Books, in collaboration with Indiana University Press)  
      
    Edited by Tabish Khair, Justin Edwards, Martin Leer and Hanna Ziadeh  
    General introduction by Tabish Khair  
    Foreword by Amitav Ghosh  
      
    Other Routes "opens ...

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  • Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels (Oxford UP, 2001)

    Babu Fictions: Alienation in Contemporary Indian English Novels (Oxford UP, 2001)

    "[An] intelligent and argumentative book on contemporary Indian English novels..." - Michael Wood in the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

    "...splendidly written, well-researched...The interwaeving of literary and social motifs is also ...

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  • Where Parallel Lines Meet (Penguin, 2000)

    Where Parallel Lines Meet (Penguin, 2000)

    "With uncanny lyrical precision, he captures the fragile beauty of the ever-elusive past..." - INDIAN EXPRESS

    "WHERE PARALLEL LINES MEET draws attention to the rising star of a poet whose talent goes beyond pretty lyricism. ...

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