Everything Begins Elsewhere

The American debut of Tishani Doshi, an Indian poet-novelist-dancer who explores the exhilarating "underworld of longing and deliverance.”

About the author

Tishani Doshi: Tishani Doshi is an award-winning poet, novelist, journalist, and dancer of Welsh-Gujarati descent. She was born in Madras, India, in 1975. She received her masters in writing from the Johns Hopkins University and worked in London in advertising before returning to India in 2001 to work with the choreographer Chandralekha, with whom she performed on many international stages. She has written for newspapers such as the Guardian, International Herald Tribune, The Hindu Times and the Financial Times. Her debut collection of poetry, Countries of the Body (Aark Arts), won the ForeWord Prize for Best First Collection. Her first novel, The Pleasure Seekers (Bloomsbury, 2010), was longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for the Hindu Fiction Award, and has been translated into several languages. She lives in Madras.

Product details

• Authors: Tishani Doshi, Doshi Tishani
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.09.2013
• EAN: 9781556594427
• ISBN: 978-1-55659-442-7
• No. of pages: 64
• Weight: 141 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry, POETRY / Women Authors, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / General, POETRY / Asian / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian / Indic, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Poetry / Poems