Light Across the Plains

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

289 kr

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When Simran dies suddenly in Berlin in 1989, Lekha, adrift and unfulfilled, travels to settle her estranged aunt’s affairs. Swept up in a city in flux, what begins as a brief, practical journey soon unfolds as an excavation of memory, longing, and forces that shape lives across time and place.In Berlin, Lekha uncovers Simran’s life as a young immigrant in 1960s London, her decisions bound up in intense love and friendship amid shifting political landscapes of postwar Europe and beyond. Yet Simran’s story remains incomplete, at least until Lekha’s greataunt Prushna comes into view, her quiet audacity illuminating the hidden history of a family marked by Partition, exile, upheaval and displacement.Light Across the Plains spans decades and continents, tracing the bonds between different generations of a family as they push against the confines of the times they live in and learn to live with the choices they make.’

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2026-10-01
Mått114 x 182 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagBluemoose Books Ltd
ISBN9781915693570

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Sharon Duggal was born in Handsworth, Birmingham and now lives in Hove with her family. Her second novel, Should We Fall Behind (2020, Bluemoose Books) was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s 2021 Encore Award, selected for Between the Covers, BBC television’s flagship book show and chosen as a Prima Magazine Book of the Year. Her debut, The Handsworth Times was The Morning Star’s Fiction Book of the Year 2016 and selected as the Brighton City Reads Big Read in 2017. Her short fiction appears in anthologies including The Book of Birmingham, Visual Verse, and Love Bites: Fiction Inspired by Pete Shelley and Buzzcocks. Light Across the Plains is Sharon’s third novel.

"Light Across the Plains is a tale of boundaries and borders and frontiers and walls, and of the necessity of crossing them, if not breaking them down. It concerns families both chosen and biological, and confronts bigotry and ignorance, showing – as we used to say – how the personal is political and the political is personal. Attentive to the granular period detail in a story that runs from Punjab to Birmingham to Brighton to Berlin, from the 1940s to the late 1980s, Duggal orders her material and skilfully controls the narrative to produce a saga with no sag, an epic that stays intimate while also forming a shadow history of the second half of the 20th century.Duggal shows her storytelling ability in a book which holds its reveals until the final few pages: like all great plots, it is both inevitable and utterly unexpected."CD Rose, 2025 Goldsmiths Prize winner