Dark Rooms - A Novel in Verse -A new Genre reborn

When a nation, a people or a life faces great upheaval, some revolt while others give up and sit in dark rooms, awaiting an end... ...reminds me of some experimental writing back in the 1970s by Peter Taylor, and the seedy feeling of lost grandeur suggests Gabriel Garcia Marquez, especially 'Autumn of the Patriarch'(Steven Gallup, Author of "Expectations")

Book Details:
ISBN1-59129-503-3
Publish America Inc
152 Pages,Paperback
Sep 2002,$16.95

Distributors: Baker & Taylor , Ingram , Brodart Co

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About the Book:
Gopal is the only one left in the Kachiguda house. In its dark rooms, once filled with a great family legacy, his legendary fathers intellectual whispers and the cries of six children, he looks back on a generation gone wrong. Why did their litter fail? Where did they go wrong in their lives? Can a familys decadence be explained in the little things left behind in those dark rooms -- a picture of his father standing next to his Moris Minor, a broken gramophone, a deserted kitchen. Sleeping for hours under an old creaking fan, he looks back to his failed marriage to Kaveri, Kaveri who left him, remarried and moved to America.

Dark rooms is also a saga of a man seen through the eyes of a nephew from the time when Gopal first meets Kaveri to when the news of Kaveris death comes to him, while he awaits her, sitting in one of those dark rooms.

This first book of poems took fifteen years to write. A series of interconnected poems that unfold the drama of a family struggling to stay afloat in the early post-independence era of India this book immerses the reader into a world almost unimaginably foreign, yet universally understandable. Full of deeply human characters living on the thin line between shallow joys and deep agonies, these poems will make you laugh and weep simultaneously at the sadness and absurdity of life.

About the Author:
Siddharth Katragadda was born in India. He came to America to pursue his masters degree in 1995. He currently works as a Software Engineer in San Diego, California. His first book, "Dark Rooms: A Novel in Verse", will be out from PublishAmerica in September 2002. His poems have appeared in A Generation Defining Itself, Golden Thoughts, America at the Millennium and Sulekha. He is the winner of two Editor's Choice Awards awarded by the International Library of Poetry. His first Novel is awaiting publication, an excerpt of which was published in Writer's Monthly. Both the Novel and Dark Rooms, will eventually be a part of trilogies - a trilogy of Novels and a trilogy of Verse Collections. He is already completing the second part of the Dark Rooms Trilogy - Pariah Streets, expected to be out in 2003. He lives with his wife in San Diego, California.

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