ME & MY SHELF - Dharini Bhaskar's Favourite Reads
Reader's Digest India|October 2020
Mumbai-born Dharini Bhaskar was formerly the editorial director of Simon & Schuster India. Her debut novel These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light (2019) has been shortlisted for the 2020 JCB Prize for Literature and the Valley of Words Book Awards, 2020.
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ME & MY SHELF - Dharini Bhaskar's Favourite Reads

Nox

BY ANNE CARSON, New Directions, ₹3,639 Of all of Anne Carson’s remarkable creations, Nox is by far the most awe-inspiring. An elegy to a dead sibling, a genre-defying meditation on loss, an ode to language, an artefact (ah, the accordion folds of the book!)—Nox is a world unto itself.

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