The Hundred Names of Darkness

"A delight to read. Eliot's Old Possum would have enjoyed these Practical Indian Cats." Salman Rushdie

In the sequel and conclusion to her critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling novel, The Wildings, Nilanjana Roy takes us back to the Delhi neighbourhood of Nizamuddin, and its unforgettable cats--Mara, Southpaw, Katar, Hulo and Beraal. As they recover slowly from their terrible battle with the feral cats, they find their beloved locality changing around them. Winter brings an army of predators--humans, vicious dogs, snakes, bandicoots--along with the cold and a scarcity of food...Unless Mara can help them find a safe haven, their small band will be wiped out forever. With the assistance of a motley group of friends including Doginder, a friendly stray; Hatch, a cheel who is afraid of the sky; Thomas Mor, an affable peacock; Jethro Tail, the mouse who roared; and the legendary Senders of Delhi, Mara and her band set out on an epic journey to find a place where they can live free from danger.

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NILANJANA ROY spent most of her adult life writing about humans before realizing that animals were much more fun. The Wildings and The Hundred Names of Darkness are her first novels. She writes a regular column for the Business Standard and the International Herald Tribune, and her fiction and journalism have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including The Caravan, Civil Lines 6, Guernica, the New York Times' India blog, Outlook and Biblio. Some of her stories for children have been published in Scholastic's Spooky Stories, Science Fiction Stories and Be Witched. She is the editor of A Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Food. She lives in Delhi with two cats and her husband. The author lives in Delhi, India.

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"A delight to read. Eliot's Old Possum would have enjoyed these Practical Indian Cats." Salman Rushdie

In the sequel and conclusion to her critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling novel, The Wildings, Nilanjana Roy takes us back to the Delhi neighbourhood of Nizamuddin, and its unforgettable cats--Mara, Southpaw, Katar, Hulo and Beraal. As they recover slowly from their terrible battle with the feral cats, they find their beloved locality changing around them. Winter brings an army of predators--humans, vicious dogs, snakes, bandicoots--along with the cold and a scarcity of food...Unless Mara can help them find a safe haven, their small band will be wiped out forever. With the assistance of a motley group of friends including Doginder, a friendly stray; Hatch, a cheel who is afraid of the sky; Thomas Mor, an affable peacock; Jethro Tail, the mouse who roared; and the legendary Senders of Delhi, Mara and her band set out on an epic journey to find a place where they can live free from danger.

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Praise for The Wildings Series:

"Nilanjana Roy's novel is a delight to read. Eliot's Old Possum would have enjoyed these Practical Indian Cats."-Salman Rushdie

"With . . . The Hundred Names of Darkness, Roy has crafted a world that is as believable and every bit as lovingly rendered as [Neil] Gaiman's [Sandman]. . . . Several memorable animals, familiar and new, light up the pages of The Hundred Names of Darkness. . . . The Hundred Names of Darkness similarly suspends the enthralled reader between two worlds. By the time you finish the book, the boundaries between these worlds seem porous like never before. It is an astounding achievement-that rare book which marries high art with what is already becoming a feverish, cult-like following." -The Sunday Guardian

"The Wildingsis above all a love paean to cats; that it also happens to be a marvelously spun novel that could well become a classic in its own time is almost secondary."-Sunday Guardian

"Gripping, humorous and truly immersive."-Sunday Indian

"A novel for all seasons and ages. . . . Roy has created a world of heightened senses and myriad species, a world that seems tangibly real."-India Today

"Roy has created an immersive world of scents and sounds-we feel the corrugated steel roofs under paws, learn the best places to stay dry in a monsoon. The sleek queens, brawling toms and tail-chasing kittens live by a feline moral code, and you can feel their claws unsheath at the thought of the human world plotting their destruction. . . . It's an absorbing debut. . . . It's enjoyable to be reminded of how much life teems in our cities, and of just how many stories have nothing to do with us." -Maclean's

"One of the joys of this novel is Roy's intricately imagined animal, avian, even insect society-a community that lives alongside but not as part of the bumbling, oblivious Bigfeet (that's us). An ode to New Delhi and a thrilling adventure to boot." -The Globe and Mail

"[C]harming and sometimes chilling. . . . The novel is fable-esque until the deadly battle begins. . . . Roy's obvious love of these creatures has produced a vivid world while warning of the dangers of isolation and fear.The Wildingsis a novel that can seduce even those most indifferent to cats." -Toronto Star

"[P]artWatership Downand partSlumdog Millionaire-and entirely mesmerizing." -Reader's Digest

"A beautiful re-visioning of Delhi, of friendship and of war. Roy has made the mind-link: her wildings hunt in my dreams." -Alissa York,author ofFaunaandThe Naturalist

"Nilanjana Roy'sThe Wildingsis a charming ode to the wild, feral, and caged cats of Delhi. It achieves so much in its ground-level, cat-centric witnessing of the urban landscape, and in the complex responses it provides to questions of freedom, difference, communication, instinct, and family. Roy's cats bring to mind the creatures of Rudyard Kipling's 'Rikki Tikki Tavi' and Richard Adams'Watership Down, and like these immensely popular stories,The Wildingshas a similarly warm heartbeat. I predict that Roy will win fans from all ages with this delightful debut." -Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, author ofAll the Broken Things

"Nilanjana Roy's dazzlingly originalThe Wildingszeroes in on the mysterious and danger-filled lives of cats in a Delhi neighbourhood. The narrative, like the domain it is set in, is strikingly unique. . . . If a debut novel can be equated with a cat's first kill,The Wildingsis as perfect a strike as Mara's. Gripping, humorous and truly immersive, it is well worth a sequel." -The Sunday Indian

"A vivid and introspective narration that unfolds the life of a band of cats that live in the alleys and ground of Delhi's Nizamuddin area, the book delightfully welcomes you to their animal kingdom." -The Times of India

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nilanjana Roy
• Editore: Random House of Canada
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2016
• EAN: 9780345815576
• ISBN: 978-0-345-81557-6
• Pagine: 416
• Dimensioni: 144 mm x 208 mm x 32 mm
• Peso: 440 g
• Serie: The Wildings
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi