Clone

PRAISE FOR Eloquent - Sudipta Dutta The Financial TimesA poetic imagination - Tim Parks translator and authorAmbitious and inventive - George Szirtes poet and translatorLyrically written - Rashmi Vasudeva Deccan HeraldDESCRIPTIONA revolutionary take on the classic dystopian science fiction novel Clone inaugurates a new kind of writing in India. Priya Sarukkai Chabria weaves the tale of a fourteenth-generation clone in twenty-fourth-century India who struggles against imposed amnesia and sexual taboos in a species-depleted world. With resonant and allusive prose Chabria takes us along as the clone hesitantly navigates through a world rendered unfamiliar by her expanding consciousness. This slow transformation is mirrored in the way both she and her world appear to the reader. The necessary questions Chabria raises revolve around a shared humanity the necessity of plurality of expression the wonder of love and the splendor of difference.Clones adventurous forays into vastly different times spaces and consciousness animal human and post-human build a poetic story about compassion and memory in the midst of all that is grotesque.