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About the Book: Subversions: Essays on Life and Literature

A Lively and Thought-provoking Collection of Writings About Life and Literature

For more than forty years, Shashi Deshpande hasas a novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist and public figure (in short, as a concerned and engaged citizen)audibly contributed to the lively public debates on the role of the writer and writing in India and to an of Indias contemporary social, literary and political issues. She has not been reluctant to insert critical and dissenting notes into the public discourse of her nation. The essays in this volume constantly remind us that Deshpande is first and foremost a reader anda listener actively and compassionately engaged in dialogue with others. Subversions invites its readers to enter that fascinating dialogue.

About the Author: Shashi Deshpande, Nancy E. Batty, Dieter Riemenschneider

Shashi Deshpande is the author of eleven novels, two crime novellas, a number of short-story collections, a book of essays, and four childrens book. Three o f h e...