The To-Let House

Daisy Hasan

* Long-listed for the Man Asian Literary Prize, 2008 (pre-publication)

With the release of The To-Let House, a refreshing new voice in contemporary Indian fiction debuts on the literary scene.

The tale unfolds in the city of Shillong, in the north east – one of India’s most troubled areas. As the four children emerge into adolescence, framed by the region’s violent search for identity, their inner and outer worlds hold uncanny mirrors to each other. Daisy Hasan conjures up a world that is darkly unsettling, yet curiously effervescent.

Fiction
Paperback; 228 Pages

"Intriguing, unusual debut... provides an intriguingly complex yet authentic portrait of childhood."
- The Hindu

"Daisy Hasan writes poetically … The magnificent conclusion of 'The To-Let House', where Hasan turns the pocket-space of the outsider inside out, one where the dhakar identity is left without signs, where Kulay and the reader, together, discover tributaries of identities in flux, brings out what to me is the most powerful force in the book."
- Biblio