Debut Novels

‘Babu Bangladesh’: A literary agent remembers the making of a debut novel – and its author’s death

Published after the tragic death of its author Numair Choudhury, ‘Babu Bangladesh’ is the only posthumous debut to be shortlisted for a literary prize in India.

Kanishka Gupta
· Nov 09, 2019 · 08:30 am
Before you read Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation’, read her masterly ‘Eileen’

The strangeness of Moshfegh’s second novel is foreshadowed in the search for normalcy in her debut work, ‘Eileen’.

Rohan Parikh
· Jul 21, 2019 · 12:30 pm