Mohanaswamy

Title Mohanaswamy
Original title ಮೋಹನಸ್ವಾಮಿ
Author Vasudhendra; transl. from the Kannada by Rashmi Terdal
Publication Harper Collins India
Size 271p
Language ENG ENG
ISBN 9789352641260
Topics Indian fiction--Kannada--Translated into English
Indian fiction--Love
Indian fiction--Short stories and novellas
Gay men--Fiction
Notes ‘The love, lust, separation, power and pangs of this man to man world is shocking, even as it exposes us to a body politics that is starkly different from what operates in a man to woman relationship.’ – Vivek Shanbhag Mohanaswamy has just lost his long-time partner, Karthik, to a woman. Even as he scrutinizes himself, the choices he’s made, the friends and lovers he’s gained and lost, Mohanaswamy dreams of living a simple, dignified life. A life that would allow him to leave, even forget, the humiliation and fears of adolescence, the slurs his mind still carries around – gandu sule, hennu huli – and the despair that made him crave to conform. A coming out of the closet for Vasudhendra himself, these stories of homosexual love and lives jolted Kannada readers out of their notions of the literary and the palatable. The gritty narratives of Mohanaswamy explore sexuality, urbanisation and class with a nuance and an unflinching honesty that will both unnerve and move readers in English and serve as a fine introduction to one of the strongest voices in Kannada literature. [back cover]
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