Seven Sixes Are Forty-three
About this ebook
It's good to see an old friend in a new avatar; this novel by Kiran Nagarkar is everything a first novel should be: ambitious, experimental and powerful. Just don't trust the mathematics. -Jerry Pinto
'The first slap on your bottom as you come into the world tells you that your days of mollycoddling are over. The sooner you understand that, the better you are prepared for the pain and the unhappiness.' Kushank Purandare is a writer living off the generosity of friends and lovers. There is the ex-flame Aroti, who is now another man's wife and whom he refuses to pity; Mrs Reghla alias Kaku who has gouged her eyes out; old Kathavte who lives upstairs and beats his daughters; Raghu whom he accompanies to a famine-struck village where gangsters rule the roost. Disillusioned with the lack of certainty and empathy in a world that is largely incoherent and unsalvageable, Kushank drifts about wallowing in his past and doing odd jobs. Written in Marathi, Kiran Nagarkar's first book, Saat Sakkam Trechalis - with its dark humour and volatile prose is considered a landmark in post-Independence Indian literature. This new edition will introduce the brilliance of Kiran Nagarkar to a new generation of readers.
About the author
KIRAN NAGARKAR is one of India's most highly-regarded writers. His critically acclaimed novel Cuckold won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2000. Nagarkar received Germany's highest civilian award, the Order of Merit in 2012. Both the Tata Literature Live! and the Chandigarh Literary Fest gave him Lifetime Achievement Awards. His novels have been translated into German, French, Italian and Spanish. Saat Sakkam Trechalis won the H. N. Apte award for the best first novel of 1974.
SHUBHA SLEE was born in 1937 and studied at Agra University. She moved to Australia in 1964 and unexpectedly passed away early in 1980.
