17 Tomatoes: Tales From Kashmir
JASPREET SINGH
17 Tomatoes is a series of linked stories that revolve around two Sikh boys coming of age in an Indian Army camp in Kashmir. Each story takes a minor character from the previous tale and builds a new tale, weaving a collective portrait of the community.
Hardback | 140 x 216mm (5.5 x 8.5") | 152 pp
ISBN 8186939296
Rs.225.00
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17 Tomatoes is a series of linked stories that revolve around two Sikh boys coming of age in an Indian Army camp in Kashmir. Each story takes a minor character from the previous tale and builds a new tale, weaving a collective portrait of the border community. In addition to the boys, Adi (a student of gardens) and Arjun (a budding chemist), we meet a boatman’s daughter, a celebrity cricket umpire and Parachute Aunty. From modern missiles to cricket matches, from religious miracles to the sumptuous gardens of Shalimar and Nishat, Singh treats beauty, politics and religion in a gentle and humane manner.
About the author
Jaspreet Singh grew up in India and now lives in Canada. His book 17 Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir won the Quebec Writers’ 2004 Best First Book Prize. He holds a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from McGill University, Montreal. His stories have appeared in Exile and Francis Ford Coppola’s Zoetrope, among other publications, as well as in anthologies of new writing. His work has been featured on CBC Radio’s special edition on ‘perspectives on war in the previous century’. He recently finished writing Elephants, a play, for Montreal’s Infinite Theatre. He is currently the Markin-Flanagan writer-in-residence at the University of Calgary, and is at work on a novel.
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