Sana Goyal

Oct 24, 2024 | theguardian.com | Sana Goyal

In this haunting and hypnotic first novel from the award-winning poet, life imitates art and art imitates life. Set between London, Paris and the Amazon rainforest, it’s the story of a painter, Dominique, who hasn’t seen her father in more than three decades; he abandoned their family when she was six. As an adult, she travels to Venezuela to see the Angel Falls, but instead sees her father’s face “in the wildest place on Earth”.

Aug 7, 2024 | msn.com | Sana Goyal

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Aug 7, 2024 | theguardian.com | Sana Goyal

Turkish author Ayşegül Savaş’s third novel is an erudite and elegant meditation on modern life and modern love. It opens with a moment of panic, when a married couple decide to start house-hunting. At this point, Asya and Manu have been living together in a foreign, unnamed city in a foreign, unnamed country for several years. We’re told by Asya, a documentary film-maker, that they first met at university, and back then were only “playing out our adulthoods rather than committing to them”.

Jul 17, 2024 | msn.com | Sana Goyal

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Jul 17, 2024 | theguardian.com | Sana Goyal

“Rain time in Sohra was also story time,” we’re told early on in this seminal and shapeshifting novel about the north-eastern Indian Khasi community. “The perfect time to tell a tale is a rainy night.” A real-life journey the author made to the jungle village of Nongshyrkon, nestled in the West Khasi Hills of north-east India, inspired the book. It’s also a homage to the narrator’s home town, Sohra – changed to Cherrapunjee in colonial times – “the wettest desert on earth”.