Neela Vaswani

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Where the Long Grass Bends: StoriesPaperback, 1 January 2004

Where the Long Grass Bends: Stories
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Print Length
192 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Sarabande Books
Date Published
1 Jan 2004
ISBN-10
1889330965
ISBN-13
9781889330969

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Fierce and bold, these beautiful stories provide a highly kinetic exploration of sameness and difference in terms of ethnic and racial origin. Through a romp of language--vital, outrageous, unpredictable--the fireworks of Neela Vaswani's original genius cast shadows and illumine psyches that conventional monovisions never perceive. The stories of Where the Long Grass Bends are for readers willing to view the shape-shifting of both reality and literary form. Vaswani's characters embrace their fates through such rigorous birthing that what has been internal finally contains and defines them.--Sena Jeter Naslund

If it is true, as one of Vaswani's characters claims, that a musical movement is the equivalent of a sentence, then the stories in Where the Long Grass Bends comprise an uncanny and beautiful symphony. This is a luminous collection, where each fiction evolves its own mythology. I want to live in the world of these stories just as I am afraid of this beautiful and often dark world. Neela Vaswani's Where the Long Grass Bends is lovely, strange, lyrical, full of true mystery.--Victoria Redel

Where the Long Grass Bends is a delight of invention and language. In whirling, catch-me-if-you-can prose, Vaswani tells stories that subvert conventional narrative by employing Indian lore, Gaelic fable, and historical legend. Spare, fierce, and unpredictable, this debut collection is boundless, even boundary-less, because Vaswani has, as David Garnett said of Virginia Woolf, a mind that sticks to nothing.

Neela Vaswani lives in New York. Her short stories have appeared in numerous journals, including Prairie Schooner, American Literary Review, and Global City Review. In 1999, she was awarded the Italo Calvino Prize. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland, and teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing program at Spalding University.

Product Details

Author:
Neela Vaswani
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 January 2004
Dimensions:
14.53 x 19.71 x 2.06 cm
ISBN-10:
1889330965
ISBN-13:
9781889330969
Language:
English
Pages:
192
Publisher:
Weight:
358.34 gm

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