SOLILOQUIES

20 books | 5 years | 1 pathbreaking collection''Soften the blow God.''Adil Jussawalla''s Soliloquies-written when he was barely eighteen-does what only the most ambitious of literary works can do: it grasps for the numinous.The protagonist Jian''s struggle-marked by long hours of darkness and brief flickers of revelation by perturbation and torment and then a floodlight of perception-is intimate yet epic in its sweep and animated with visions so bright they sear.Soliloquies written when Adil Jussawalla was barely eighteen is a brilliant and precocious work that tests the powers and limits of language. Thayil Editions One carries for the first time this lost piece of Indian literary history as well as a one-of-a-kind interview detailing Jussawalla''s youth and friendships and the ten guineas he once borrowed.