Published as Big Girl Now in Australia (Brass Monkey Books 2010)
Published as Bort, Bort in Sweden (Ordfront 2010)
One of 16 novels long-listed for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2011
Short-listed for the Hindu Best Fiction Award 2010
One of 21 novels long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008
From the reviews...
“One has heard of the Delhi novel and the Bombay novel, and finally, here's a Bangalore novel.”
DNA “Neti, Neti can legitimately claim to be the definitive “new Bangalore” novel... an unflinching investigation of the immigrant narrative.” Mint
“Neti, Neti paints an empathetic portrait of the unusually liberated—and unexpectedly lost—middle-class youth of the brave new India... the novel wins over the reader with its sincerity.” Outlook
“Hasan is masterful with the nuances of longing and the subtlest of tragedies.... [She is] an artist with her words. There is writerly accomplishment in every turn of phrase.” Deccan Herald
“Hasan’s writing is full of warm humour... Blurbs will struggle to capture her subversivesness.” Tehelka
“Hasan is an assured writer, excellent at teasing out the comedy and despair in the lives of imperfect, confused characters and their muddled rebellions...This is a novel that will speak to a generation.” Indian Express
“Hasan’s two books are good examples of how the personal can successfully be used to illustrate the bigger picture; how individual lives can help map the life of this vast country and the many subcultures that coexist within it.” Crest “Hasan delivers the bitter truth that for all their suavity, our young Englishspewing motormouths are merely automatons sold on the candyfloss life, the bastard children of globalisation.” Mail Today
Read the full reviews in: Timeout (Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore)
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