New Releases from Asia: January 2020
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Title: Gariahat Junction
Author: Rituparna Roy
Publisher: Kitaab International, Singapore
Year of publication: January 2020
Pages: 150
Price: Rs.400/
Links: You Tube
About: Gariahat Junction is a collection of nine short stories, of contemporary Indian women who have reached a critical juncture in their lives. Set primarily in post liberalised, post-millennial Kolkata, it mostly explores the lives of middle-class Bengali women in or from the city.
Title: Avatar: Indian Science Fiction/ Fantascienza indiana
Author: Edited by Tarun K. Saint and Francesco Verso
Publisher: Future Fictions
Year of publication: 2020
Pages: 311
Price:$17.09
Links if any: Amazon
About: Avatar is the first ever bilingual anthology published in English and Italian language of new Indian Science Fiction. It has been edited by Francesco Verso, multiple award Science Fiction writer and editor of Future Fiction, together with Tarun Saint as guest editor. The aim is to bring together cutting edge and contemporary Indian Science Fiction that takes on board some of the most pressing challenges of this 21st century, post-modern and late post-colonial moment.
