Kashmir: Jaspreet Singh, "Chef"
Wednesday, 17 March, 6:45pm
Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 7LP (nearest Tube - Oxford Circus)
www.festivalofasianliterature.com
Jaspreet Singh is the next rising star in Asian Literature and this is his only London appearance. Short-listed for the 2009 Commonwealth Prize for best book, Chef is an outstanding and brave debut novel, set against the beautiful, war-scarred backdrop of occupied Kashmir.
In Srinigar, a contradictory place of erratic violence, privilege and extreme temperatures, a young military chef arrives at General Kumar’s camp. As a Sikh he feels secure in his allegiance to India in Kashmir’s on-going conflict, until he meets a Pakistanti “prisoner” who changes his life.
In this first appearance in London, Jaspreet Singh will talk with Justine Hardy, author of In the Valley of the Mist. Tickets : by phone: 020 7307 5454; email: enquiries@asiahouse.co.uk or online: http://asianatickets.com
Wednesday, 17 March, 6:45pm
Asia House, 63 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 7LP (nearest Tube - Oxford Circus)
www.festivalofasianliterature.com
Jaspreet Singh is the next rising star in Asian Literature and this is his only London appearance. Short-listed for the 2009 Commonwealth Prize for best book, Chef is an outstanding and brave debut novel, set against the beautiful, war-scarred backdrop of occupied Kashmir.
In Srinigar, a contradictory place of erratic violence, privilege and extreme temperatures, a young military chef arrives at General Kumar’s camp. As a Sikh he feels secure in his allegiance to India in Kashmir’s on-going conflict, until he meets a Pakistanti “prisoner” who changes his life.
In this first appearance in London, Jaspreet Singh will talk with Justine Hardy, author of In the Valley of the Mist. Tickets : by phone: 020 7307 5454; email: enquiries@asiahouse.co.uk or online: http://asianatickets.com
