A mighty thunderclap of a novel, The Gypsy Goddess is set to launch Meena Kandasamy as a brazen, inventive, provocative star
Meena Kandasamy (born 1984) is a poet, fiction writer, translator and activist who is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. She has published two collections of poetry, Touch (2006) and Ms. Militancy (2010). She holds a PhD in socio- linguistics from Anna University Chennai, has represented India at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program and was made the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury. The Gypsy Goddess is her first novel.
Dazzling, maddening, often hilarious... Kandasamy's in-your-face
narrative is unashamedly tricksy but handled with sublime
confidence
*The Times*
Powerful... The Gypsy Goddess has a lyrical, radical core, which
offers bold perspectives on the relationship between poverty and
power
*Guardian*
It would take Carol Ann Duffy, Caroline Criado-Perez, Kandasamy's
hero Arundhati Roy and, if her first work of fiction The Gypsy
Goddess is anything to go by, Salman Rushdie to match Kandasamy's
infinite variety... The Gypsy Goddess is a novel of self-conscious
experimentalism and unmistakable fury, it throws down a gauntlet to
conservative literary and political sensibilities
*Independent*
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