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‘I am a fourteenth generation clone and something has gone wrong with me. Not that my DNA is altered, not that I am a mutant. Not that any function need be eliminated. It’s nothing obvious. It’s terminal, and secret. Let me put it this way: I remember.’

In a world where memory is forbidden and sexuality taboo, Clone 14/54/G is unique. Haunted by her past lives and caught in a struggle between the forces of oppression and those of liberty, language and love, she keeps a secret journal.

Intense, poetic and erotic, Generation 14 is a dazzlingly imaginative and bizarre political satire. Set in the twenty-fourth century the novel journeys through high points of India’s history to explore ideas of its plural identity and what it means to be human in today’s polarized world.

This extraordinary novel is unlike any other coming from the subcontinent, and heralds a new generation of fantasy writing from India. It is a serious and vivid reflection on repression and the fragility of freedoms.

About Author

Priya Sarukkai Chabria is a poet and novelist. Her first novel, The Other Garden, and her poetry collection, Dialogue and Other Poems, received critical acclaim. She has edited the anthology 50 Poems 50 Poets, and is the editor of the Talking Poetry South Asia website. Her work is published in Adelphiana, Alphabet City, Atlas, Drunken Boat, South Asian Review, Soundings and The Norton Anthology of Contemporary Voices from the East. Her poetry collection Not Springtime Yet is forthcoming.

Details

Published by : Penguin Books India
Published : January 2008
Cover Price : Rs 295.00
ISBN : 8189884069
Edition : Paperback
Format : Demy
Extent : 288 pp
Classification : Fiction

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