Bøger af Anitha Krishnan

Two things were annoying Mrs. D'Souza. One, the fact that she was dead. And second, the line of dead folks waiting to meet their Maker was insufferably long and impossibly docile.Restless and teeming with questions, she decides to take matters in her own hands and sets out to find God. Not a big deal, really.Except for one small thing. How do you seek someone when you don't even know what they look like?

You don't need eyes, let alone a mirror, to peer into the depths of your own soul.Sight is a privilege denied to everyone by law in the land of Parinara. Every child is blindfolded at birth. Even the dead are buried blindfolded. To see is an unpardonable crime, punishable by death.Yet, fifteen-year-old Viola indulges in a momentary curiosity and violates the law, only to find that the gift of sight comes at an exorbitant price.To look outward, she must first lose sight of what lies inward. But therein lie the secrets that even sightlessness cannot conceal.

When you lose someone you love, how far would you go in search of them?And what if the only way you can find them is by first losing yourself along the way?Devastated by grief at the loss of her beloved dog, Leo, Heidi ventures into the woods behind her home, hoping to find him there.She meets strange and eccentric characters along the way, but no one seems inclined to give her a straight answer about Leo's whereabouts.Frustrated and confused, Heidi begins to wonder if there is more to these characters than meets the eye. The Oldest Witch who lives in a snow bubble of denial. The Omniscient Man who trivializes Heidi's pain. The lonely woman, Gaia, who is consumed by anger. And many others.As Heidi struggles to make sense of their cryptic responses, she must also navigate her own emotions and face up to the distinct possibility she has been refusing to consider all along. Perhaps Leo is truly gone forever and she may never find him.Drifting from one dreamlike encounter to another, Heidi discovers that the journey through grief, from loss towards acceptance, is a meandering. It unfolds of its own accord, often seemingly without purpose or reason. But can she survive it without first getting hopelessly lost?

*** Finalist for 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in Speculative Fiction category ***When I was seven, my mother died. I struck a bargain with the Gods to bring her back to life.For thirteen years now, I have served as a Harbinger of Death, coaxing dying wishes out of mortals so that the God of Death may grant them moksha, liberation from the cycles of birth and death.The man about to die this evening claims he has nothing to offer me. He is dying a content man, a rarity in our world.But when the God of Death arrives to lead his soul away, the man changes his mind about dying and flees, planting on me something that is not quite a dying wish.I only know I cannot trust any God with this secret. And that I'll pay an unbearable price for this concealment.Yet again, I underestimate how savagely the Gods can wound me. Even though one of them is supposedly my father who still doesn't know I exist.Set in Burlington, Ontario, this contemporary fantasy novel weaves Hindu mythology and South Indian folklore into a quest for belonging across different worlds - the World of Mortals and the World of Gods, India and Canada, the past and the present, the world outside and the one within.It is an offering to lovers of whimsical worlds and heartbreaking prose, and to anyone yearning to simply belong.¿