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All rights available excluding South Asia

Marketing Information

• A much needed and first-of-its-kind book on the Indian diaspora in South Africa which is growing and playing an increasingly important role in the economy in both India and South Africa • An important account of indenture and apartheid and how it affected the South African Indian community • The author has a strong voice and writes with passion. Laced with humour and irony, the book is a clear and candid account of the new forms of racism and the ‘new apartheid’ that prevail in the new democratic South Africa and how relevant Gandhi is for the Indian community today. • Zainab Priya Dala has established a place for herself in the literary world with her novels, What About Meera and The Architecture of Loss

Author Biography

Zainab Priya Dala is a freelance writer and psychologist. Her debut novel What About Meera won the inaugural Minara Aziz Hassim Literary Prize in South Africa and was longlisted for both the Etisalat Prize for Fiction (the most prestigious literary prize for African fiction) and the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize (South Africa’s largest literary award). Her second novel, The Architecture of Loss, has been published to much critical acclaim. Her short stories were awarded second prize in the Witness True Stories of KwaZulu Natal and she has written opinion pieces for The New York Times Magazine, Marie Claire and Elle. In 2017, she received an Honorary Fellowship in Writing at the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa. She has lived and worked in Dublin and now lives in Durban, South Africa.

Copyright Information

First published in India by Speaking Tiger in hardback 2018

Copyright © Zainab Priya Dala 2018