The Empty Space

by Geetanjali Shree

Geetanjali Menon (Translator) and Nivedita Menon (Translator)

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When a bomb explodes in a university cafe, nineteen students are killed. The Empty Space begins with the identification of these slain students. Slowly, each individual is claimed and taken away for a proper burial by their mourning family members. The final mother to enter the cafe identifies the nineteenth body as her eighteen-year-old son and brings him home in a casket. Not only does she bring home her dead son, though, but also the sole survivor of the blast, a three-year-old boy. By a strange quirk of fate, after the explosion he is found lying in a small empty space, alive and breathing. The Empty Space chronicles the memories of the boy dead, the story of the boy brought home, and the cataclysmic crossing of life and death.
  • ISBN10 0857423940
  • ISBN13 9780857423948
  • Publish Date 20 January 2017
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 6 October 2023
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Seagull Books London Ltd