A Play of Light
درباره این کتاب صوتی
Experience the precise unobtrusive writing of Ruth Vanita and its powerful influence. Her poetry explores absences and distances, focusing on the complex dynamics of relationships. Vanita's poetry explores the theme of absences and distances, focusing on the complex dynamics of relationships. She combines ancient myths with current events, embracing experimentation with form and metre. Discover Vanita's spellbinding fascination as she weaves past and present, leaving readers with an imprint that will last a lifetime.
Vanita has a quiet, firm and self-assured voice that treats even the raucous with classical containment... It is a voice one would like to hear more often. - Keki N. Daruwalla
درباره نویسنده
Raised and educated in India, Ruth Vanita divides her time between Gurgaon and Missoula. Her first novel, Memory of Light, appeared from Penguin in 2020. Her next book of poems, A Hidden Player, will appear from Copper Coin in 2022. She taught at Delhi University for 20 years; for 13 of those years, she was active in the women’s movement and worked as co-editor of India’s first nationwide feminist magazine, Manushi, of which she was a founder. She is the author of many books on same-sex sexuality in Indian and British literatures; her next book, The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics: Debates on Gender, Varna and Species, will appear from Oxford University Press in 2022.
