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This place that place, a novel, Nandita Dinesh

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This place that place

1332964101

Nandita Dinesh

a novel

"In a nameless country under military occupation, two young friends - a man from the occupied region ("This Place), and a woman from the occupiers' ("That Place") - prepare to attend a wedding... Their relationship, already complicated by their unusual professions - he is a Protest Designer and she is a De-programmer - is tested further when, on the eve of the wedding, That Place formally annexes This Place and declares a curfew. Suddenly finding themselves confined to the same isolated space, the young woman and man try to kill time but inevitably wind up talking about the ways in which the war between their homelands pervades the unexplored and undeniable attraction between them. Will their relationship become another casualty of war? This Place | That Place is an evocative debut that functions as a bold allegory for militarized occupations anywhere. As much a visual read as it is a literary one, this brilliant literary debut provides new ways to think about intersections between the personal and the political; between occupier and occupied; between the kinds of bonds that endure, and those that have no choice but to fracture." -- Back cover

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