Toto Funds the Arts
in association with
The British Council Library
is pleased to invite you to a reading of
Mridula Koshy’s Not Only the Things that Have Happened
She will be in conversation with Nisha Susan, who will also read from her short story ‘The Gentle Reader’
Date and Time:
Saturday, 23 February 2013, 6.30 p.m.
Venue: The British Library, Prestige Takt, 23 Kasturba Road Cross, Bangalore
Fiction writer Mridula
Koshy’s first collection of short stories If It Is Sweet
(Tranquebar Press, 2009; Brass Monkey, 2011) won the 2009 Shakti Bhatt First
Book Prize and was shortlisted for the 2009 Vodafone Crossword Book Award. Not Only the Things That Have Happened
is her first novel. She lives in New Delhi and Portland, Oregon.
Winner of the very first TOTO award for creative writing
(2006), Nisha Susan is a writer and journalist. She was Features Editor
at Tehelka magazine in Delhi. Before journalism, she lived the NGO life
in Bangalore for five years. She is currently working on a novel and a book on
Malayali nurses. Also a poet and short fiction writer, Susan’s works have been
published in various anthologies and journals.
About Not
Only the Things That Have Happened
A woman relinquishes her four-year-old
son to tourists passing through town; losing him, she loses the story of her
future. A world away from her, the boy becomes a man without the story of his
past. Not Only the Things That Have Happened is the story of how we
remember and forget. It is about stories that make us and break us and remake
us.
“Intimate, epic,
haunting …” ––Jeet
Thayil
“A walk through
the cellars of memory and a distressing exposure of the institutions we must
depend on.” –– Annie
Zaidi
“It is a
remarkably self-assured work, and it feels slightly humbling to be in the
presence of a literary talent like this.” –– India
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