Dar El Shorouk is one of the most prominent publishers in the Arab region. For almost 50 years, its name has been associated with quality, free thought and creativity. Dar El Shorouk boasts the region’s most distinctive list of award-winning titles and authors.
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The Shoestring Publisher is an independent publisher of illustrated books on India’s history and cultural heritage, with a particular focus on the visual arts including architecture, fine art, design, film, photography and textiles. Founded by Meera Ahuja in 2006, it has received the Indian Tourism Award for Excellence in Publishing for its panoramic limited editions The Monumental India Book (acclaimed as one of the world’s ten best coffee-table books of 2009) and The Sacred India Book. Its most recent publications are America: Films from Elsewhere (2019) and the monograph Mrinalini Mukherjee, published in conjunction with the exhibition “Phenomenal Nature: Mrinalini Mukherjee” at The Met Breuer, NY, in 2019. Shoestring’s numerous international co-editions include The Monumental India Book (Citadelles & Mazenod, 2007; Schirmer Mosel Verlag, 2008; The Vendome Press, 2008; and Constable & Robinson, 2008), Western Artist and India: Creative Inspirations in Art and Design (Thames & Hudson, 2013) and Mughal Architecture and Gardens (Antique Collectors’ Club, 2011; and Éditions de La Martinière, 2013).
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A selection of short stories made by Diego Zúñiga. A book that will be part of a collection including William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov, Julio Cortázar and Roberto Bolaño among others. These stories, from which both memory and fiction emerge, take us to the tough and inhospitable lands of The Great Chilean South, with heroic fights of men against a beautiful but cruel nature. “Coloane incorporated a series of stories and characters that did not exist in Chilean literature until before him. He invented a new landscape and inhabited it, as probably no one has ever done it again. […] It is enough to read the unpublished story that is included in this anthology, "Galope en la Patagonia", to confirm that no one ever retold the story of these characters and of that southern landscape with the same humanity as Coloane did. And maybe that's what makes his reading urgent”. From the foreword by Diego Zúñiga
Marian Matta’s Life, Bound moves through time and place, following characters who struggle to escape the past and strive to shape the future.Free agents or captives of our past? In Life, Bound, characters find themselves caught in situations not of their own making, or trapped by ingrained habits, walking in grooves carved out by past events.An artist’s progress is pleasingly channelled into a pattern laid down a century earlier. A solitary man’s story is almost preordained, but is indecipherable to researchers looking back some sixty years later. Karma mops up in the wake of a mousy clerk. A local legend falls foul of the town gossip. Spouses are constrained or liberated by love. Sexuality, gender, resentments, attachments and perversities all play a part. Yet the grip of the past needn’t always hold firm. Many protagonists are offered a potentially life-changing moment; whether or not they grasp it is up to them.
Journeys form the leitmotif of these astonishing new stories by Ambai. Some culminate in an unconventional love affair, some are extraordinary tales of loyalty and integrity; others touch upon the almost fantastic, absurd aspect of Mumbai. Yet others explore the notion of a wholesome self and its tragic absence at times. These stories are illuminated by vivid and unusual characters: from an eccentric, penurious singer-couple who adopt an ape as their son to a male prostitute who is battered by bimbos for not giving ‘full’ satisfaction. Crucially, some of the stories, like the title story, engage uninhibitedly with a woman’s relationship to her body. For Ambai, feminist par excellence, the sensual body, experienced as a natural landscape changing with age, is, at the same time, the only vehicle of life and tool for mapping the external world.
Kavin Malar's stories are myths, accurately expressing his vision. The existence of men on such a vast globe, especially the question of why the existence of women is so crowded and marginalized, he can tell stories. The basis of his stories are questions about the attitude of not tolerating anyone who transgresses the defined morality and practice of tradition within a nation that, like India, will not accept the legendary but new way of life.
