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Book review: Locating 011 | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Book review: Locating 011 | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Sukrita Baruah |Updated: September 29, 2019 12:50:29 am



Book review: Locating 011

Sharp vignettes of Delhi’s past, but this smooth translation lacks a woman author’s perspective

Locating 011
The stories within a city. (Express photo by Praveen Khanna)


How does a reader make sense of a text which they are simply unable to place? Reading Aleph Book Company’s 2019 edition of A Death in Delhi can be a slippery experience because of the failure or unwillingness of the publishers to locate the text clearly in time.  Or perhaps, it was a thought-out decision.

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