ME & MY SHELF

Gautam Bhatia is a speculative fiction writer. He is the author of the science fiction duology, The Wall (2020) and The Horizon (2021), and most recently, of the novel, The Sentence (2024). He is also a constitutional lawyer and the coordinating editor of the science-fiction magazine Strange Horizons.

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Gate of the Sun

BY ELIAS KHOURY, Vintage, ₹1,099

In a hospital bed, an old Palestinian revolutionary lays dying. By his bedside, his protégé begins to recollect and piece together the memories of his life, and with them, the story of the Palestinian Revolution. Gate of the Sun is Lebanese writer Elias Khoury's masterpiece, a paean to the Palestinian Revolution and the women and men who lived—and died—for it.

Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us

BY JOSEPH ANDRAS, Verso Fiction, ₹2,320

A thinly fictionalized retelling of the story of the only pied-noir who was executed for siding with the rebels in Algeria's war of independence from the French, Tomorrow They ... has the qualities of both dream and nightmare. Its author refused to accept the.

The First Woman

BY JENNIFER MAKUMBI, Oneworld Publications, ₹979

Two women, growing up together in rural Uganda, trace very different—and yet intertwined—life journeys, that see them contend with the newly-independent nation-State, patriarchy, and the travails of a life less ordinary.