The Visiting Moon
SUSAN VISVANATHAN
A modern novel where the subconscious reveals itself in a manner funny and violent.
Hardback | 134 x 195mm (5.25 x 7.7") | 156 pp
ISBN 8186939113
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In this strange and haunting novel, Rashmi, a woman and a writer, lives out an obsessive, everyday existence. The landscape that she inhabits and writes about—with its backdrop of marriage and friendship, love and death, perfection and madness—is at once tempestuous, brutal and delicate. Nothing seems in consonance, yet there exists the symmetry of a beating heart, a dripping tap. A modern novel, where the subconscious reveals itself in a manner funny, and violent.
About the author
Prof Susan Visvanathan teaches sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Her previous fictional works are Something Barely Remembered (IndiaInk and Flamingo, an imprint of HarperCollins, UK), and The Visiting Moon, (IndiaInk) and a novella called Phosphoros and Stone.
She is the author of The Christians of Kerala (OUP, 1993), a doctoral work submitted to Delhi University in 1987, and other works on religion and mysticism published from Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi and from the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla. Ethnography of Mysticism (1998) a monograph published by IIAS is a pioneering work on the study of a French monk who engaged with the great Indian sage, Ramana Maharshi.
She has been Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Delhi, (1989–1992) an Honorary Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (1990–1995); Charles Wallace Visiting Fellow in Belfast at Queens University (1997); and visiting professor, Maison Des Sciences L’Hommes (2004).
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Visiting Moon is my favorite novel by Susan. I admire the main protagonist Reshmi, the writer...Looking forward to read her new book..
Renny Thomas
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