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Sakinas Kiss Audiobook, by Vivek Shanbhag Play Audiobook Sample

Sakina's Kiss Audiobook

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Read By: Srinath Perur Publisher: Random House Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.17 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.38 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: December 2023 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9789357080620

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

13

Longest Chapter Length:

45:26 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

15 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

22:20 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men claiming to have business with his daughter Rekha. He deals with them shortly, only to find his quiet, middle-class life upended by a bewildering set of events over the next few days.Even as Venkat is hurled into a world of street gangs and murky journalism, we see a parallel narrative unfold of a betrayal and disappearance from long ago. Could there be a connection? Set over four mostly sleepless days, we see Venkat lose grasp of the narrative even as he loses grasp of his wife and daughter.Exquisitely translated from the Kannada by Srinath Perur, Sakina’s Kiss is a delicate, precise meditation on the persistence of old biases—and a rattled masculinity—in India’s changing social and political landscape. Ingeniously crafted, Vivek Shanbhag interrogates the space between truth and perception in this unforgettable foray into the minefield of family life.

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About Vivek Shanbhag

Vivek Shanbhag is the author of several works of fiction and two plays, all of which have been published to wide acclaim in the South Indian language Kannada. The first of his books to appear in English, Ghachar Ghochar was excerpted in Granta’s 2015 India issue.

About Srinath Perur

Srinath Perur is a writer and translator whose work has appeared in n+1, Granta, and the Guardian. He is the author of If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai, published by Penguin India.