Gooday Nagar
A MODERN-DAY MALGUDI DAYS, WITH A SURREAL TWIST.
Gooday Nagar is the Malgudi of contemporary India-it is any and every city we know. Set in it are medieval English castles with unlikely stories of murder and magic, heaven-made marriages unmade on earth, lives disrupted by the Covid pandemic put back together by thieving monkeys, worlds mapped by vitiligo, disillusioned playwrights and their tryst with soanpapdi, classical singers' funerals, vacuum cleaner salesmen and armless ghosts, erstwhile revolutionaries and their fear of gobhi manchurian, waking up alone in a post- apocalyptic world only to discover everything is made of cake. The stories seek to unearth the ironies of modern life and rewrite its philosophy with humour and a storgic love of language.
About the Author
Maithreyi Karnoor is the author of the novel Sylvia. She has translated two novels from the Kannada: A Handful of Sesame, which was shortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, and Tejo Tungabhadra. She is a two-time finalist of The Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her poetry and fiction are published in international journals including The Poetry Review, PN Review, Poetry Wales, The Bombay Literary Magazine and Muse India. Her reviews and features appear in The Indian Express, Deccan Herald, The Hindu, Mint Lounge, etc. She was the recipient of the 2022 Charles Wallace India Trust fellowship in writing and translation at Literature Across Frontiers and University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
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A MODERN-DAY MALGUDI DAYS, WITH A SURREAL TWIST.
Gooday Nagar is the Malgudi of contemporary India-it is any and every city we know. Set in it are medieval English castles with unlikely stories of murder and magic, heaven-made marriages unmade on earth, lives disrupted by the Covid pandemic put back together by thieving monkeys, worlds mapped by vitiligo, disillusioned playwrights and their tryst with soanpapdi, classical singers' funerals, vacuum cleaner salesmen and armless ghosts, erstwhile revolutionaries and their fear of gobhi manchurian, waking up alone in a post- apocalyptic world only to discover everything is made of cake. The stories seek to unearth the ironies of modern life and rewrite its philosophy with humour and a storgic love of language.
About the Author
Maithreyi Karnoor is the author of the novel Sylvia. She has translated two novels from the Kannada: A Handful of Sesame, which was shortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, and Tejo Tungabhadra. She is a two-time finalist of The Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her poetry and fiction are published in international journals including The Poetry Review, PN Review, Poetry Wales, The Bombay Literary Magazine and Muse India. Her reviews and features appear in The Indian Express, Deccan Herald, The Hindu, Mint Lounge, etc. She was the recipient of the 2022 Charles Wallace India Trust fellowship in writing and translation at Literature Across Frontiers and University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
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A MODERN-DAY MALGUDI DAYS, WITH A SURREAL TWIST.
Gooday Nagar is the Malgudi of contemporary India-it is any and every city we know. Set in it are medieval English castles with unlikely stories of murder and magic, heaven-made marriages unmade on earth, lives disrupted by the Covid pandemic put back together by thieving monkeys, worlds mapped by vitiligo, disillusioned playwrights and their tryst with soanpapdi, classical singers' funerals, vacuum cleaner salesmen and armless ghosts, erstwhile revolutionaries and their fear of gobhi manchurian, waking up alone in a post- apocalyptic world only to discover everything is made of cake. The stories seek to unearth the ironies of modern life and rewrite its philosophy with humour and a storgic love of language.
About the Author
Maithreyi Karnoor is the author of the novel Sylvia. She has translated two novels from the Kannada: A Handful of Sesame, which was shortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize, and Tejo Tungabhadra. She is a two-time finalist of The Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her poetry and fiction are published in international journals including The Poetry Review, PN Review, Poetry Wales, The Bombay Literary Magazine and Muse India. Her reviews and features appear in The Indian Express, Deccan Herald, The Hindu, Mint Lounge, etc. She was the recipient of the 2022 Charles Wallace India Trust fellowship in writing and translation at Literature Across Frontiers and University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
