Vivek Shanbhag is the author of eight works of fiction and two plays, all of which have been published to wide acclaim in the South Indian language of Kannada. Ghachar Ghochar is the first of his books to appear in English. He was the recipient of a Fall 2016 residency at the International Writing Program at Iowa. An engineer by training, Vivek Shanbhag lives in Bangalore, India.

'Astonishingly truthful and marvellously playful, Sakina's Kiss is an extra-ordinary novel.', Megha Majumdar, author of A BURNING'Tense, taut and compulsively readable.', Deepa Anappara, author of DJINN PATROL ON THE PURPLE LINE

Vivek Shanbhag is the author of eight works of fiction and two plays, all of which have been published to wide acclaim in the South Indian language of Kannada. Ghachar Ghochar is the first of his books to appear in English. He was the recipient of a Fall 2016 residency at the International Writing Program at Iowa. An engineer by training, Vivek Shanbhag lives in Bangalore, India.

'Astonishingly truthful and marvellously playful, Sakina's Kiss is an extra-ordinary novel.', Megha Majumdar, author of A BURNING'Tense, taut and compulsively readable.', Deepa Anappara, author of DJINN PATROL ON THE PURPLE LINE

Vivek Shanbhag is the author of eight works of fiction and two plays, all of which have been published to wide acclaim in the South Indian language of Kannada. Ghachar Ghochar is the first of his books to appear in English. He was the recipient of a Fall 2016 residency at the International Writing Program at Iowa. An engineer by training, Vivek Shanbhag lives in Bangalore, India.

'Astonishingly truthful and marvellously playful, Sakina's Kiss is an extra-ordinary novel.', Megha Majumdar, author of A BURNING'Tense, taut and compulsively readable.', Deepa Anappara, author of DJINN PATROL ON THE PURPLE LINE