Temporary people / Deepak Unnikrishnan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Unnikrishnan, Deepak, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign workers.

United Arab Emirates--Fiction.

United Arab Emirates.

Foreign workers--Fiction.

United Arab Emirates--Social conditions--Fiction.

Immigrants--Fiction.

Local Subjects:

United Arab Emirates--Social conditions--Fiction.

Genre:

Short stories.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

251 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Restless books paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2017.

Summary:

"Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing ... The author's crisp, imaginative prose packs a punch, and his whimsical depiction of characters who oscillate between two lands on either side of the Arabian Sea unspools the kind of immigrant narratives that are rarely told. An enchanting, unparalleled anthem of displacement and repatriation"--Kirkus Reviews, starred review.

"Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing... The author's crisp, imaginative prose packs a punch, and his whimsical depiction of characters who oscillate between two lands on either side of the Arabian Sea unspools the kind of immigrant narratives that are rarely told. An enchanting, unparalleled anthem of displacement and repatriation" -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

Contents:

Book 1. Limbs. Chabter one. Gulf returns ; Chabter two. Birds ; Chabter three. Pravasis ; Chabter four. Fone ; Chabter five. Taxi man ; Chabter six. The anniversary ; Chabter seven. In Mussafah grew people ; Chabter eight. Le Musée ; Chabter nine. Akbaar: Exodus

Book 2. Tongue. Flesh. Chabter one. Mushtibushi ; Chabter two. Glossary ; Chabter three. Blattella Germanica ; Chabter four. Pravasis Chabter five. Moonseepalty ; Chabter six. Dingolfy ; Chabter seven. Kloon ; Chabter eight. Cunninlingus ; Chabter nine. Nalinakshi

Book 3. Veed. Chabter one. Kada (Shop), Kadha (story), Kadakaran (shopkeeper) ; Chabter two. Water ; Chabter three. Sarama ; Chabter four. t Veed ; Chabter five. Dog ; Chabter six. ; Chabter seven. Blattella Germanica ; Chabter eight. Ivday (here), Avday (there) ; Chabter nine. Baith ; Chabter ten. Pravasis=

The names.

Notes:

Hindu Prize - Fiction, Winner, 2017

ISBN:

9781632061423

1632061422

OCLC:

974926158

Publisher Number:

99971347359