Central Time (HB)
₹405.00
Author: Ranjit Hoskote
9780670086818 | HB | pp. 144 | 2014 | Penguin Random House
Central Time by Ranjit Hoskote has hundred poems that resonate with the crises of war, genocide, terror, forced migration and the precariousness of belonging.
Ships in 2-4 days
In stock
Description
In Central Time, Ranjit Hoskote becomes the storyteller of a turbulent epoch. We meet Ovid and Ghalib, poets in exile or eclipse, in these poems, which are by turns elliptical, conversational and narrative. We meet painters who betray their art and sculptors who are betrayed by theirs. Fascinated by the enigmas of time, memory and evanescence that art invokes, Hoskote addresses a range of artists including Bihzad, Magritte, Masaki Fujihata and Ranbir Kaleka. At the same time, he retains his affection for the natural world, celebrating the textures and intensities of sensuous experience: the roughness of stone, the dance of light, the flowering of touch and the taste of salt and cinnamon. A testament to a present shimmering like a mirage between contested pasts and vexed futures, this book pivots around moments of encounter: a defiant squirrel in Anuradhapura, an intriguing collection of objects in a Berlin museum or a man discovering a mass grave near Kabul. Written between 2006 and 2014, the hundred poems that form Central Time resonate with the crises of war, genocide, terror, forced migration and the precariousness of belonging.
Additional information
| Author: | Ranjit Hoskote |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9780670086818 |
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Pages: | 144 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
Shipping
This book will be shipped in 2-4 working days. The time taken for you to receive the book after it is shipped will depend upon the mode you choose, while completing your purchase. The rates applicable for each mode are different.
You will be informed after the order is shipped.
Shipping costs depend on the mode chosen, the weight of the item, and the distance it will travel to reach its destination. Shipping costs will be charged depending on the weight of the entire purchase (if more than one book is purchased). The same shipping mode will apply to all products in such a case.
