152 september 2019
ME & MY SHELF
All the Light
We Cannot See
BY ANTHONY DOERR,
Fourth Estate, Harper-
Collins, ` 499. Doerr
weaves the lives of a
blind girl from France
and an orphan boy
from Germany into a tale of a precious
jewel with a curse. Also mixed in the
plot are a copy of Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea in Braille, bro-
ken radios and a haunting gist of love.City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
BY WILLIAM DALRYMPLE, Bloomsbury
India, `499. I had just returned to Delhi
after spending nearly a decade livingoverseas. When I was trying to shed
Delhi off me, this was the singular
book that made me fall back in love
with my own city.The Beauty of the Husband:
A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos
BY ANNE CARSON,Vintage Books, `1,212.
An essay on Keats’ idea that ‘beauty is
truth’, Carson’s words penetrate the fra-
gile threads of marriage and fidelity—a
dialogue on grief and romance, on plea-
sure and suffering and coming undone.The Veiled Suite:
The Collected Poems
BY AGHA SHAHID ALI, Penguin India,
`399. In another life, Shahid and I photo^courtesy:^ aanchalmalhotraAanchal Malhotra’s debut
publication, Remnants of A
Separation: History of the
Partition through Material
Memory, was shortlisted for
the Shakti Bhatt First Book
Award and The Hindu Prize
for Non-Fiction (both 2018).
She is also the co-founder
of the Museum of Material
Memory, a digital repository
tracing family histories.