Category: PoetryPublishing House: Harper Collins Publishers India
Rights Available: World (excluding Indian Asia)
In the three sections of A Man of Glass, Khair draws upon three writers from across centuries, cultures, literary genres and languages: Kalidasa and his fifth century Sanskrit play The Recognition Of Shakuntala, Asadullah Khan Ghalib and his early nineteenth – century Urdu ghazals, and H.C. Anderson and his Danish ‘fairy tales’. Drawing subtly upon the past, Khair engages powerfully and movingly with many issues and events of vital concern to the reader today: immigration, Afganistan, terror, love, loss, death, human duplicity, faith, prejudice, the Iraq War, genocide…
