Set in nineteenth-century India between two revolutionary moments of change, Twilight in Delhi brings history alive, depicting most movingly the loss of an entire culture and way of life. As Bonamy Dobree said, "It releases us into a different and quite complete world. Mr. Ahmed Ali makes us hear and smell Delhi...hear the flutter of pigeons’ wings, the cries of itinerant vendors, the calls to prayer, the howls of mourners, the chants of qawwals, smell jasmine and sewage, frying ghee and burning wood." The detail, as E.M. Forster said, is "new and fascinating," poetic and brutal, delightful and callous. First published by the Hogarth Press in 1940. Twilight in Delhi was widely acclaimed by critics and hailed in India as a major literary event. Long since considered a landmark novel, it is now available in the U.S. as a New Directions Classic. Twilight in Delhi has also been translated into French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, and Urdu.
Ahmed Ali Bücher
Ahmed Ali war ein pakistanischer Romanautor, dessen Werke die Komplexität der indischen Gesellschaft in einer Übergangszeit erforschen. Sein Schreiben zeichnet sich durch scharfe Einblicke in die Psychologie der Charaktere und ihre Kämpfe in einer sich wandelnden sozialen Landschaft aus. Ali befasst sich mit Themen wie Identität, Kultur und den Auswirkungen des Kolonialismus auf das persönliche Leben. Sein literarischer Stil ist akribisch und beschwört die Atmosphäre der von ihm dargestellten Ära herauf.
