A BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, Read by Meera Syal
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A book of the year for Hindustan Times, The Hindu,
The Wire, and more
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Longlisted for the 2022 Tata Lit Live! First Book Prize
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'Gives voice to a new generation.' BBC Radio 4
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'In quietly ambitious prose, Sonal Kohli charts the turbulent three decades of a 'rising' India.' Pankaj Mishra
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'[Sonal] has a way of absorbing the reader in her world, and also revealing very delicately how that world is surprising, unexpected, and in flux.' Amit Chaudhuri
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'[Kohli] takes us into the living rooms I grew up in in India... Kohli entices.' World Literature Today
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The House Next to the Factory
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"The house had two gates. There was a large rust-coloured one, past which Mr. Lamba could see nothing. It seemed like the entrance to the factory. A few metres ahead was a small white gate with a square grille at the top. Mr. Lamba walked his scooter to the smaller gate and parked it."