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Delhi Noir (2009)

by Hirsh Sawhney(Favorite Author)

3.06 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

193335478X (ISBN13: 9781933354781)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Akashic Books

review 1: It has been a while since I indulged in a mystery/thriller book, and in comparison to most this isn't a particularly strong book. However it was well worth the read! Some of the short stories were gripping, my favorite was "How I Lost My Clothes". The authors do a great job of bringing Delhi to life, and they do an even better job of tackling some big issues including corruption, poverty, and the rape culture in India. However, the dark themes got too dark at times, with a lack of balance (but it could be pardoned since they're all short stories.) The language was often ill-crafted, or simply crude, many times, for no grand reason. Nevertheless, it was insightful, on a superficial level, with regards to the perspective of an average "Dilli-wallah".
review 2: I ... morewas not expecting to like this as much as I am liking it... I started out a little miffed that they included only one story translated from Hindi, which seems very wrong for Delhi. But there is some awesome stuff in it. My favorites are the story from Hindi, by Uday Prakash, and the Nalinaksha Bhattacharya and Siddharth Chowdhury stories. Pretty darn gritty, but for god's sake Indian English writing needs some grit. Not every story is five-star but there's enough great ones to make it a five-star collection for sure. less

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