The walls of Delhi

About the Book: The Walls of Delhi Three stinging, darkly comic tales capture in telling detail life and survival in todays India. In the title story a sweeper discovers a cache of black moneyand escapes to see the Taj Mahal with his underage mistress; inMohandas a Dalit races to reclaim his life stolen by an upper-casteidentity thief; and in Mangosil a babys head gets bigger and biggeras he gets smarter and smarter, while his family tries to find acure. The stories in this collection are a testament to UdayPrakashs extraordinary gift as a storyteller and his original, boldvoice. About Author: Uday Prakash, Jason Grunebaum Uday Prakash is one of contemporary Hindis most importantvoices. His volumes of poetry and fiction, published over the pasttwenty-five years, have earned him numerous Indian andinternational literary awards, including the Sahitya Akademi award,and his work has been translated into ten languages.Uday is also afreelance writer and journalist, a filmmaker of documentaries,feature films and television series. He divides his time betweenNew Delhi and Sitapur in Madhya Pradesh. Jason Grunebaum is a writer and translator who has worked as aninterpreter and delegate for the International Committee of the RedCross in Kashmir, Kosovo, and East Timor. His translation fromHindi of Uday Prakashs novel The Girl with the Golden Parasol wasawarded a PEN Translation Fund grant, and he has received aNational Endowment of the Arts Literature Fellowship for histranslation of Manzoor Ahteshams The Tale of the Missing Man. Hisown short stories have appeared in many literary journals.Jason isa Senior Lecturer in Hindi at the University of Chicago, where healso teaches creative writing. Reviews An earlier translation named A Girl with a Golden Parasol, alsotranslated by Jason Grunebaum from the original Peeli Chhatri WaliLadki, received great reviews: Doom-laden yet tender, at oncebitterly disillusioned and comic, this terrific novel is a paean tothe dignity of huma