An Island: (Long listed for the 2021 Booker Prize) by Karen Jennings Oscar Wilde Punjabi and Urdu

Punjabi and Urdu

When Swadesh Deepak—celebrated Hindi playwright and short-story writer— arrives at PGI

such as the Chackomurder

the regular moviegoer would have been hard-pressed to recognise more than a couple of names in the film's credits

Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to remove the Indian from the child

An Island: (Long listed for the 2021 Booker Prize) by Karen Jennings Oscar Wilde Punjabi and UrduAUTHOR : KAREN JENNINGS GENRE : FICTION (BOOKER SHORTLIST) QUICK TAKE: An Island concerns itself with lives lived on the margins, through the story of a man who has exiled himself from the known world only to find himself called to the service of others, themselves exiled from the world by cruelty and circumstance. It is on these grounds that this writer deftly constructs a moving, transfixing novel of loss, political upheaval, history, identity, all