For King’s characters, war is not just a flash on the nightly news, but ever-present and unavoidable, in real time or in recurring memory.
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I told her my surname. She shook her head. She meant the one that came before the surname and before the English first name on my passport.
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She realised that as Noor Ahmad she at least felt like a person. As Nooria, she returned to being a shadow. Returning was harder than changing.
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I just recorded a podcast based on my experience editing an anthology of short fiction. ‘Never, ever, describe speech using anything other than “said,”’ I opined.
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To read Mahapatra’s stories is to experience defamiliarisation, which occurs when the literary language disrupts habitual perception by making the ordinary appear extraordinary and the extraordinary disturbingly ordinary.
