India is home to almost three million HIV cases. But AIDS is still a disease stigmatized and shrouded in denial. It is stigma that prevents people from openly discussing the facts around HIV, and keeps them from getting treatment. Stigma leads to discrimination against HIV positive people in hospitals, schools and even among families.
In this ground-breaking anthology, sixteen of India's well-known writers go on the road to tell the human story behind the epidemic. William Dalrymple meets the devadasis ('temple women'), many of whom have become victims of HIV; Kiran Desai travels to the coast of Andhra where the sex workers are considered the most desirable and Salman Rushdie spends a day with Mumbai's transgenders. These writers travel the country to talk to housewives, vigilantes, homosexuals, police and sex-workers and together they create a complex and gripping picture of AIDS in India: who it is affecting, how and why.
Eye-opening, hard-hitting and moving, AIDS Sutra will show you a side to India rarely seen before.
This anthology was produced in collaboration with Avahan, the India AIDS Initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Proceeds will be used to support programs for children affected by HIV in India.
Aids Sutra is important ... [it] succeeds because it is not sentimental: the writers respect the victims, admire their courage. With humility, expatriates make the arcane accessible. Those based in India have a refreshing candour
—— IndependentIntereresting...engaging...finely observed. Sir Salman Rushdie's essay is...one of the best.
—— EconomistThe challenge of conveying extreme suffering without sentimentalising...is met in this collection of wide-ranging voices, both emotive and meditative...the anthology...shows how storytelling can help create life-saving "fellow-feeling"
—— GuardianA heart-rending tale of torture, human fortitude and forbearance, inhumanity and hardship
—— Sunday TimesThat supreme storyteller, Nevil Shute...I could hardly bear to put the book down. I read it voraciously for days
—— May Lovell , The TimesRemarkable books...I share a fierce personal regard for Nevil Shute
—— Richard BachA novel which, while aiming at popularity, respected its readership and was possessed of a decent level of craft
—— Philip Hensher , SpectatorIt is an admirable book and in its best passages is inspired and haunting
—— Jane Yager , Times Literary SupplementGenerations of women survive, most movingly, in the wreckage left by total war
—— Boyd Tonkin , IndependentBeautifully constructed... Franck has a remarkable ability to capture the nuances of human behaviour,and her subtle depiction of Helene's growing coldness, or "blindness", and the wider blindness of a society heading for disaster, is utterly compelling
—— Independent on SundayRead it and weep
—— http://lizzysiddal.wordpress.comWith its intriguing plot and strong characterisation, Julia Franck's novel depicts beautifully both personal and historical tragedies, and gives us a compelling portrait of a remarkable woman in difficult times
—— WBQA rich, affecting novel
—— David Evans , Independent on Sunday, Christmas round upA witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty
—— The New York TimesA marvellous elucidation of life ... a story full of craft and full of mystery
—— The New York Times Book ReviewCompulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!
—— Lindsey DavisThe Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon
—— Kathy LetteWitty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny
—— Arabella WeirThe funniest writer ever to put words to paper
—— Hugh LaurieThe greatest comic writer ever
—— Douglas AdamsP.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century
—— Sebastian FaulksSublime comic genius
—— Ben EltonYou don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour
—— Stephen Fry
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