Dirty Love (Paperback)

‘It is hard for me to say the word ‘stench’ when I speak of her, my love . . .’
This is a sequence of stories set in the restless swirl of a Bombay where dream-shuttles speed through the rain and men fall prey to dirty love. existence. We encounter a mother inexplicably estranged from her infant son, an Insectboy with a gift for fantasy, Night Rat Killers who prowl
in their very own heaven. Gritty and surreal, tender and terrifying, these stories, together with the chorus of voices running through them, convey the energy and ennui that lie at the secret heart of modern urban life.

About the Author
Sampurna Chattarji is a poet, novelist and translator. Her nine published books include three poetry collecbons— Absent Muses, The Fried Frog and Sight May Strike You Blind: and two novels—Rupture and Land of the Well. Her translation ot Abol Tabol: The Nonsense World ot Sukumar Ray is now a Puffin Classic titled Wordygurdyboom! Her poetry has been translated into German. Swiss-German. Irish, Scots. Welsh. French. Tarnil. Manipuri and Bambaiyya; and her children's fiction into Welsh and Icelandic.
Sampurna is the editor of Sweeping the Front Yard, an anthology ot women's writing in English, Malayalam. Telugu and Urdu. She was the 2012 Charles Wallace writer-in-residence at the University of Kent Canterbury. More about her writing can be found at sampurnachattarji. wordpress.corn.