A New Voice In Indian Fiction: Saskya Jain
A reading by Leslie Center Visiting Scholar Saskya Jain, whose first novel, Fire Under Ash, was published with Random House in 2014.
Location
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
Sponsored by
Leslie Center for the Humanities
Audience
Public
In her fiction, Saskya Jain explores the deep turmoil inherent in the frenetic energy of the new, aspiring India and takes a coruscating look at Delhi’s beauty and brutality, having watched the city morph from its post- Nehruvian avatar of the 1980s to today’s globalized megalopolis.
Saskya Jain’s first novel, Fire Under Ash, was published with Random House in 2014. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals and magazines, most recently in The Economist and The Caravan. A graduate of the MFA Fiction program at Boston University, she lives in New Delhi and Berlin.
Location
Room 003, Rockefeller Center
Sponsored by
Leslie Center for the Humanities
Audience
Public
