Generation 14

Priya Sarukkai-Chabria

In a world where memory is forbidden and sexuality taboo, Clone 14/54/G is unique. Haunted by her past lives and caught in a struggle between the forces of oppression and those of liberty, language and love, she keeps a secret journal. Set in the 24th century, the novel journeys back and forth across millennia to explore ideas of plural identity, and what it means to be human. This extraordinary novel is unlike any other coming from the subcontinent, and heralds a new generation of fantasy writing from India. Intense, poetic, and erotic, Generation 14 is a serious and vivid reflection on repression and the fragility of freedoms, and a dazzlingly imaginative political satire. "Chabria's is an extraordinary poetic imagination" - Tim Parks, author of Europa “Priya Sarukkai Chabria is remarkable both as poet and novelist and her twin aspects are clearly evident in...

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