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Boats on Land is a unique way of looking at India’s northeast and its people against a larger historical canvas—the early days of the British Raj, the World Wars, conversions to Christianity, and the missionaries. This is a world in which the everyday is infused with folklore and a deep belief in the supernatural. Here, a girl dreams of being a firebird. An artist watches souls turn into trees. A man shape-shifts into a tiger. Another is bewitched by water fairies. Political struggles and social unrest interweave with fireside tales and age-old superstitions. Boats on Land quietly captures our fragile and awkward place in the world.
- Sales Rank: #1798068 in eBooks
- Published on: 2012-10-05
- Released on: 2012-10-05
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
"Revelatory and original." - Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis (shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2012)
"These stories announce the arrival of a startlingly brilliant and compassionate writer whose book is as haunting as the world it emerges from." - Siddhartha Deb
"Poignant, subtle and nuanced, a writer to watch out for." - Manju Kapur
"Janice deliciously underplays her settings and is adept at conveying both atmosphere and character. Even her ambiguities have a queer beauty." - The Sunday Guardian
"The beauty of Janice's prose is a feast for the senses" - People
"The collection lingers on in the memory as much for what is said as for what is left unsaid" - The Asian Age
"Janice is a wonderful storyteller. She has a soft, nuanced voice, meditative in quality, which evocatively brings out Shillong's landscape and its people." - OPEN magazine
"The best English writing to come out from the region in recent years." - DNA
"Janice's prose may as well have been poetry, richly bejewelled in metaphor and allegory." - First City "The cast of characters in the book is impressively varied, untouched by the navel-gazing middle-class-ness of a lot of Indian Writing in English." - Indian Express"[What] makes you linger on Janice's short fiction is the truth they help you arrive at, that fresh understanding of an old world." - Hindustan Times
"Her style is poetic and self-assured...an ambitious and carefully-wrought book." - Mint
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Stories from Shillong told in lyrical Prose
By Raghu Nathan
A review of this book in one of the Indian newspapers said that this book is a collection of short stories, all set in the North east of India by a native author. That was enough for me to want to read the book. We hardly ever come across writers from the NE region published in English in publications in the heartland of India. I have heard of writers like Siddhartha Deb and Anjum Hassan when it comes to writings on Shillong but have never managed to read either of them. For me, Janice Pariat is the first author I have read on Shillong and its native people, the Khasis. And it was a rewarding and satisfying read. The stories are mostly told in a reflective mood over the past and the flow is quite smooth. Taken individually, none of the stories seem to stand out and grab you powerfully but still, they are such that you want to read the next one soon after.
All the stories in this collection are set in Shillong, save one. They cover a period of nearly 150 years, starting from the time when Assam was mainly a tea plantation of the British, then the second world war, the turbulent times of the 1970s and 80s when the Khasi people wanted to separate from Assam and have their own state within the Indian Union and then finally to the modern times of social media and cell phones. Ms. Pariat writes English prose with great facility and it is of lyrical quality in many places. The landscape of Shillong about which she writes, the culture and customs of the Khasi people, the distant past in which the stories are set - they are all so revelatory and fresh in perspective. I felt that Ms.Pariat brings Shillong to life as it existed in the 1970s through her stories which are told in the background of the Khasi insurgency for a separate state. I particularly liked the stories '19/87', 'Boats on Land', 'An Aerial View' and 'Laitlum'.
There are passages in some of the stories which captured my attention for their insight, lyrical quality and beauty of expression.
For example, in the story 'Echo Words', a couple suddenly disappear completely and the people of the town get curious and suspicious that they were killed and their bodies buried somewhere in the vicinity of the town. They start digging the marshy ground. The author reflects beautifully: "...I thought, yet perhaps it was precisely because nothing ever happened in this town that we were willing to believe anything. Rumours had given shape to something tangible. The winds here were trapped by the mountains, our words weren't blown away. Instead, they returned to us in strange, distorted echoes, ferocious reflections of ourselves...".
In the story 'Laitlum', a young schoolgirl describes her first ever motorbike ride with a boy as follows: "...So far, I have experienced the world from the security of being on the inside - a car, a book, the judicious guidance of my parents. Cocooned in plastic and metal, in parched pages, within the arms of suffocating love. Everything goes by, scenery and life, unfurling at a safe distance, a flat democratic haze. Being outside is a step away from safety. On a motorbike, the world rushes up at you from all sides, so do the wind and colors of the trees and the sky. You are exposed. The sunshine hits your back, your face, the air flies down your throat, and you are nothing but a single, glorious movement....".
Elsewhere, Ms.Pariat describes the setting sun in Shillong as '..the sun shredded the sky and fell behind the mountains. We watched the clouds bleed..'
This is a promising first book by the author. She is certainly an Indian author in English whose future books I would look out for.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Much more than a ride into India's Northeast
By LuigiR
In her debut book, Janice Pariat manages--true to her opening quote--to "find the marvelous real with every step". For the world she conveys is one imbued of thick, liquid meaning, which encompasses mysteries that--we like to think--are no more today. In her stories, the eternal tussle between the known and the unknown reclaims a space where things have ways of reaching towards people, and leave deep affective imprint.
So it is that the unrequested, vexing intrusion of the colonial foreigner can be repelled by "the word". A word that--however--is as powerful as it can be threatening, and drag down with it the very existence of those that utter it. Because the triumph of light over darkness always comes at the risk of complete loss of any point of reference, flushed down the steep waterfall of primeval chaos.
In the confusion engendered by clashes between police and militant groups brandishing arms against an evil other, budding rockstars ride to where the hills are set free, and ponder over the significance of folk tales, which "taught people something about life, and how to live it". This loss of folk tales, and of a magic dimension that lies at the heart of our most authentic experience of the world, finds its expression in periodical outbursts against this or that other; the Nepalis, the Bengalis, the Marwaris, the Muslim or the Assamsese, the ever-changing yet ever-present "dhkar".
Janice Pariat's book rekindles our world with its lost magic, conjuring up--through the gift of an essential, densely gripping prose--tense atmospheres where the other is encountered and hated, rejected, loved and made part of oneself. A book that offers much more than a ride into India's Northeast, but speaks instead to the most ancient part of ourselves. Thoroughly recommended.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Read this book!
By b00k r3vi3ws
Janice Pariat has indeed brought together a collection of short stories that are so different yet so beautiful when read together.
I have read this book quite some time back yet I intentionally held on to myself from writing a review of this book because the amount of emotions that I went through while reading this book was simply unexpected and I wanted to capture each of them. But even after re-reading a couple of stories, I feel oddly unequipped to review this book.
There are fifteen stories in all, starting with ‘A Waterfall of Horses’ and ending with ‘An Aerial View’. While one story tells us about the various struggles between the British and the locals, there’s another that talks about the local superstition. A third story tells as about the various divisions in people, another story tells us about the school life affected by the local political scene. Every time I think about this book I am still surprised by the varied subjects touch by this author - from various myths and legends, to the local beliefs and superstitions of the people at that time, Janice has painted a superb and complete picture of the North East India during the early days of British Raj by including the political, social and cultural scenario of the time.
Telling short stories is a form of art that very few people can master and I for one have only enjoyed O’Henry, Jefferey Archer and Anita Desai so far. Even Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies had me in its grip. And now it is Janice Pariat. Though each of these authors are VERY different from each other in almost every aspect, and I am not comparing Janice with these greats… But Janice has clearly made her own space in Short Story world and over the time we may even see her name with the other greats.
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