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80,000 words hardcover
Final manuscript available
Canada: Doubleday, Spring 2010
Italy: Piemme, Dec 2010
India (English): HarperCollins India
Turkey: Inkilap Kitabevi
(Photo: Ryan Martis)
Anosh Irani was born and brought up in Bombay, India and moved to Vancouver in 1998. He is the author of the acclaimed novels The Cripple and His Talismans and The Song of Kahunsha, which was a finalist for CBC Radio's Canada Reads and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, was published in thirteen countries, and was a bestseller in Canada and Italy. His play Bombay Black was a Dora Award winner for Outstanding New Play. Irani was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Drama for his anthology The Bombay Plays: The Matka King & Bombay Black.
a novel by Anosh Irani
SET IN THE TOWN OF DAHANU ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF BOMBAY, THIS IS A TALE OF TWO OPPOSING CLANS – THE IRANIS AND THE WARLIS – AND THE FORBIDDEN LOVE THAT BRINGS THEM TOGETHER, WITH TRAGIC RESULTS
- Read interviews with Anosh in The Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star
- Hear Anosh on CBC Radio's The Next Chapter
“Anosh Irani has a talent for peeling back layers of history and class in brilliant tales that are wittily folkloric, devastatingly political, and flamboyantly mythological. He must come from a long line of storytellers, fire keepers and, I suspect, also magicians.” — RAWI HAGE
“A beautiful novel, Dahanu Road is big with love and infused with the passion of Anosh Irani's gentle yet shrewd prose.” — DONNA MORRISSEY, author of What They Wanted and Kit's Law
Zairos is a dissolute young landowner's son living in the town of Dahanu, just outside Bombay, when his life of careless luxury is brought up short by a mysterious death: the sudden suicide of Ganpat, a tribal worker on his family's estate. Soon Zairos has fallen in love with Ganpat's daughter Kusum, and finds himself defying taboos with their relationship. At the same time his grandfather, Shapur, reveals to him the story of their family and of the land that Zairos stands to inherit. Violence and hatred echo through history, and Zairos learns the terrible truth his grandfather has spent a lifetime hiding.
With an inimitable mix of earthy humour and searing tragedy, bestselling author Anosh Irani gives us his most ambitious novel yet.
PRAISE FOR DAHANU ROAD
“[Irani’s] writing is visual and intense, and he creates his flawed characters with humour and compassion … a fascinating and exotic story.” — THE CHRONICLE HERALD
“Irani weaves an intricate web of personal and political relationships… With characters as rooted in the earth as the trees of the orchard, Dahanu Road springs to life. The fruits of Irani's labours will surely win him the acclaim he's enjoyed for his past work.” — WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
“…historic truths and rich storytelling…” — THE NATIONAL POST
Praise for Anosh Irani's The Song of Kahunsha
“Irani weaves an intricate web of personal and political relationships… With characters as rooted in the earth as the trees of the orchard, Dahanu Road springs to life. The fruits of Irani's labours will surely win him the acclaim he's enjoyed for his past work.” — WINNIPEG FREE PRESS
Praise for Anosh Irani's The Song of Kahunsha
- National Bestseller
- Nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
- A CBC Radio “Canada Reads” Finalist
“A darkly enchanting story of the abandoned children of Bombay. … Irani’s shocking tale unfolds with a macabre and terrifying beauty that is both heartbreaking and compelling.” — WAYSON CHOY, author of All That Matters and The Jade Peony
Praise for Anosh Irani's The Cripple and His Talismans
“A highly imaginative novel, full of humour, poetry and insights, written in a beautiful, spare style. Throughout the narrative looms a great city, Bombay, crazily reflected in the life of one of its inhabitants who, by means baffling, heinous, desperate and often very funny, seeks to embrace the divine with both arms.” — YANN MARTEL, author of Life of Pi