Set in Goa around the time of Liberation, Mrinalini Harchandrai’s novel Rescuing a River Breeze (Bloomsbury, 2023) makes the longlist for the prestigious Asian Prize for Fiction 2023. She shares this honour with other worthies such as V. V. Ganeshananthan for Brotherless Nights, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 and the Carol Shield’s Prize for fiction, R. F. Kuang for Yellow Face which made the NYT bestseller list, and Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ for Spell of Good Things, who was long-listed for the Booker prize. A review of Rescuing a River Breeze can be read here. In conversation with Selma Carvalho, Harchandrai discusses the implications of being longlisted for the prize.
"To be honest, this is one of the reasons I wanted to tell this story. Goa and its diaspora have such a rich tradition of storytelling but somehow they aren’t reaching the bookshelves outside of the state." The One Book to read from the Asian Prize for Fiction 2023 Longlist — Joao-Roque Literary Journal est. 2017 | | | | | | | | | | | The One Book to read from the Asian Prize for Fiction 2023 Longlist — Jo... Longlisted for the Asian Prize for Fiction 2023, Mrinalini Harchandrai discusses her book. This story was inspir... | | | -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Goa-Research-Net" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to goa-research-net+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/goa-research-net/583815368.3413161.1718441694503%40mail.yahoo.com.
