Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

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THIS STORY WILL save your life,” we’re told three times, once at the opening of each section, in Deepa Anappara’s debut novel, Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line. Author Deepa Anappara has taken inspiration for her impressive debut from over a decade of working as a journalist reporting on the impact of poverty and religious violence on children in India. Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line plunges readers deep into this neighbourhood to trace the unfolding of a tragedy through the eyes of a child as he has his first perilous collisions with an unjust and complicated wider world.

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line: LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S

You can feel the smog in the basti on your face, smell the samosas and milky tea that vendors sell in Bhoot Bazaar, and feel the claustrophobia of the cramped, dank one-room apartment that Jai shares with his older sister and their parents. Violence is never the answer, but as long as the violent people have the loudest voice, the real issues of India will never get solved.BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. Even so, his remarkable voice retains a stubborn lightness, a will to believe in the possibility of deliverance in this fallen world. In any case, Anappara is not interested in explaining, embellishing, refining, or simplifying her story — and certainly not for a white reading audience, or a “Global North” literary marketplace.

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Warning: If you begin reading the book in the morning, don’t expect to get anything done the rest of the day. How did they understand the unfairness and injustice they encountered in the world around them every day? In thisthrilling reading experience,Deepa Anappara creates a drama of childhood that is as wild as it is intimate. In channelling complex social and political realities through Jai’s voice, Anappara creates an endearing and highly engaging narrator to navigate us through the dark underbelly of modern India.Writing from Jai’s perspective, Anappara turns statistics churned out by the media into a voice, so that, as she says in her afterword, ‘we are reminded of the faces behind the numbers’.