Description

A bomb explodes in a university café, claiming the lives of nineteen students. The Empty Space begins with the identification of those nineteen dead. The mother who enters the café last to identify the nineteenth body brings home her dead eighteen-year-old son packed in a coffin, as well as the sole survivor of the blast, a three-year-old boy, who by a strange quirk of fate, is found lying in a small empty space, alive and breathing. That Empty Space recounts the memories of the boy gone, the story of the boy brought home, the crossing of their life and death and the mixing up of their identities. About the Author: Geetanjali Shree has written four novels – Mai, Tirohit, Hamara Sheher Us Baras and Khali Jagah – and two collections of short stories in Hindi. Also to her credit is Between Two Worlds: An Intellectual Biography of Premchand. Her stories have been translated into English, German, Serbian and Japanese. The English translation of Mai was shortlisted for the Hutch -Crossword Translation Award in 2000. It is being translated into French. She has received several awards for her contribution to Hindi literature.