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Sunday book pick: What if you could fire your boss, asks the Korean novel ‘Counterattacks at Thirty’
6 days ago |
scroll.in | Sayari Debnath
“Believing that we can right one small wrong, even if we can’t change the world – that’s the kind of coup I’m talking about. A moral coup.”In South Korean writer Won-Pyung Sohn’s 2025 novel Counterattacks at Thirty, translated by Sean Lin Halbert, a group of four “office allies” manages to get the boss fired. The boss, in addition to being mean to his juniors, freely passes air and picks his teeth in the middle of conversations.
Sunday book pick: In ‘Small Boat’, no one is at fault when 27 migrants drown in international waters
1 week ago |
scroll.in | Sayari Debnath
“I had no more opinion on the migrants than I did on migration policy or the right to asylum, relations between North and South, problems, solutions, the woes of the world, injustice: I was not required to have an opinion on the migrants.” The troubles of the unnamed narrator in Small Boat begin when, in November 2021, after receiving distress calls from migrants sinking in the sea, she tells them that help is on the way.
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2 weeks ago |
scroll.in | Sayari Debnath
“If birth was being thrown energetically up into the air, we aged as we rose. At the height of our ascent we were middle-aged and then we fell for the rest of our lives, the whole second half.”To what extent can a woman / mother / wife afford to spiral in her middle age? Can she spare the time? Does she have the energy? What about the money to just…take off?
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3 weeks ago |
scroll.in | Sayari Debnath
“He had come to terms with the bitter truth that the unadulterated passion he had felt for her under tropical skikes was not to last forever, that a deep intellectual void was eating away at his wonder, his enchantment.”Sunetra Gupta’s 1992 novella, Memories of Rain, has been recently republished by Westland and Ashoka University’s Centre for the Creative and the Critical. The new edition, with a smart green jacket, resurrects the novella for a new generation of readers.
‘The inner emotions of legal practice serve as raw, real-life material for my writing’: Banu Mushtaq
4 weeks ago |
scroll.in | Sayari Debnath
Banu Mushtaq began writing within the progressive protest literary circles in Karnataka in the 1970s and 1980s. The Bandaya Sahitya movement gave rise to influential Dalit and Muslim writers, of whom Mushtaq was one of the few women. In her long literary career, Mushtaq has published six short story collections, a novel, an essay collection and a poetry collection.
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