Book of Rahim
Paperback 80 pages English Apr 28, 2023
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Arvind Krishna Mehrotra's new book of poems, Book of Rahim, is his first collection of new poetry in twenty-five years. It contains extraordinary records of the everyday, as well as a frequent reimagining of history that makes it as commonplace as a relative or a piece of furniture, and all the more strange and unrepeatable because of that. These involve Mehrotra inhabiting the voice and time of an ageing Ghalib (author of a memorable diary reflecting on the events of the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857); his revisiting Abd al-Rahim Khan-i-Khanan (1556-1627), a Baharlu Turk, an important figure in the Mughal nobility during the reigns of Akbar and Jehangir; and his discovery of objects and letters from his family home in Lahore. The result is a frayed immediacy that hefty historical novels find difficult to achieve. (Amit Chaudhuri)
- Author:
- Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
- Publisher:
- Shearsman Books
- Publication Date:
- Apr 28, 2023
- Number of pages:
- 80 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1848618808
- ISBN-13:
- 9781848618800