MAPS FOR A MORTAL MOON

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Author: Adil Jussawalla
Publisher: ()
ISBN-13: 9789382277675
Publishing year: 2014-02-01 00:00:00.000
No of pages: 360
Weight: 463g
Language: English
Book binding: Paperback

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Adil Jussawalla has written four books of poems: Land's End (1962), Missing Person (1976), Trying to Say Goodbye (2012) and The Right Kind of Dog (2013), a book of poems for young people. Jussawalla also put together the near-legendary New Writing in India (1974). He lives in Mumbai.

Poignant, witty, melancholic and intense, this is the best of four decades of prose from one of India's masters of the written word. The worst thing about being a human being is being a human being. 'I wish I was bird', as the railway clerk in Nissim Ezekiel's poem says. But if I were, the worst thing about being a bird would be being a bird. Welcome to the world of Adil Jussawalla, poet, columnist, critic. The essays and entertainments collected in this volume take in everything from language to poetry, from ethics to model aero planes, from death and addiction to travel and alienation. In these pages, you will meet poets, novelists, construction labourers, gamblers and, most startlingly, Jussawalla himself as a boy who lost himself at the movies as the acned adolescent on a ship watching a storm at sea as the flaneur of South Mumbai. Poignant, witty, melancholic and intense, this is the best of four decades of prose from one of India's masters of the written word.