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Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Dear Reader, Love Kiran Bhat


Dear Reader…

First of all, thank you for picking up my book. It is a confusing and curious thing; it is only about two hundred pages, and yet it has sixteen characters. Each of the sixteen characters has enough bravado to carry a novel of their own, and yet, they get only ten pages. It is also blurring back and forth, here and there. Sometimes, you are in the big city, sometimes you are in a village with only silt and creek. A lot is happening in each of these four places; and yet the world feels so small, and intimate. It might seem all so very confusing.

It also feels so different, and so inviting. To be lost in language, to surrender to the words. To know that this is an author who knows what he is doing. And, he loves his readers. He wants just what is simply the best for them.

A bit more about me: I am an Indian-American polyglot, digital nomad, and wanderer. I chose to spend the last nine years traveling the world. I have been to about 132 countries, lived in 18 places, and have learnt to pick up 12 languages. I am trying to live a life where I can truly be one with the world; with its rhythms, with its feelings, with its needs. I wanted to truly become a Global Citizen. And from that space, my mind changed. I learnt to think Globally, outside of the bounds of place, culture, and border.

I want to write books that can help transform my reader to become the same way. Not everyone can travel like me, not everyone can learn as much as me, but I believe that in my fiction, you can feel, at least for a few pages, what it means to be someone else, and then to be someone else again, to always be shifting location, moving place, and yet to feel a Oneness in the constant change.

The magic of literature is to transport the full sensibilities of a person and his way of thinking upon reading the writer’s work. I hope that after you read my book that you will be able to read what I have said here and truly feel it. My love to you, and warmest wishes,

Kiran Bhat

About the Author

Kiran Bhat was born in Jonesboro, Georgia to parents from villages in Dakshina Kannada, India. An avid world traveler, polyglot, and digital nomad, he has currently traveled to more than 130 countries, lived in 18 different places, and speaks 12 languages. He currently lives in Melbourne, Australia.

Website  → http://iguanabooks.ca/

About the Book  

The Internet has connected – and continues to connect – billions of people around the world, sometimes in surprising ways. In his sprawling new novel, we of the forsaken world, author Kiran Bhat has turned the fact of that once-unimaginable connectivity into a metaphor for life itself.

In, we of the forsaken world, Bhat follows the fortunes of 16 people who live in four distinct places on the planet. The gripping stories include those of a man’s journey to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill; a chief’s second son born in a nameless remote tribe, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are destroyed by loggers; a homeless, one-armed woman living in a sprawling metropolis who sets out to take revenge on the men who trafficked her; and a milkmaid in a small village of shanty shacks connected only by a mud and concrete road who watches the girls she calls friends destroy her reputation.

Like modern communication networks, the stories in , we of the forsaken world connect along subtle lines, dispersing at the moments where another story is about to take place. Each story is a parable unto itself, but the tales also expand to engulf the lives of everyone who lives on planet Earth, at every second, everywhere.

As Bhat notes, his characters “largely live their own lives, deal with their own problems, and exist independently of the fact that they inhabit the same space. This becomes a parable of globalization, but in a literary text.”

Bhat continues:  “I wanted to imagine a globalism, but one that was bottom-to-top, and using globalism to imagine new terrains, for the sake of fiction, for the sake of humanity’s intellectual growth.”

“These are stories that could be directly ripped from our headlines. I think each of these stories is very much its own vignette, and each of these vignettes gives a lot of insight into human nature, as a whole.”

we of the forsaken world takes pride of place next to such notable literary works as David Mitchell’s CLOUD ATLAS, a finalist for the prestigious Man Booker Prize for 2004, and Mohsin Hamid’s EXIT WEST, which was listed by the New York Times as one of its Best Books of 2017

Bhat’s epic also stands comfortably with the works of contemporary visionaries such as Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick.

Amazon → https://amzn.to/2DQIclm

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