Maps for a Mortal Moon: Essays and Entertainments - Softcover

Jussawala, Adil

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Synopsis

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 aeroplanes, 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.

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About the Author

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.

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