Generation 14

“Priya Sarukkai Chabria is remarkable both as poet and novelist and her twin aspects are clearly evident in Generation 14 , for while the book is, on the one hand, a piece of ambitious and inventive science-fiction about cloning and control, it is, also, most importantly, concerned with the poetry of belonging, selfhood and commitment. The scenes are vividly visualised and carried through at a convincing pace. Chabria depicts a violent world out of which revolutionary forces emerge out of history to round out a new world that is an echo of the lost, awakening the new to a deeper, more humane consciousness.”

— George Szitres

Winner of the T S Eliot Memorial Poetry Prize

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“…undoubtedly inaugurates a new kind of writing on the Indian continent. .. The formal inclusiveness of Chabria’s prose only mines, and strengthens, the book’s plea for accepting and recognizing the splendour of difference, otherness, and plurality… The unique, carefully-chosen standpoint from which each story is told also creates imaginative space for compassion in the midst of all the grotesquery. It is by way of this redemptive space, imagination’s greatest victory, that the novel offers a ray of hope, both to Clone14/54/G’s perplexed world and to ours”.

— Stuti Khanna

DNA 

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“The necessary questions the author raises … revolve around the meaning of a shared humanity and the necessity of plurality of expression.” 

— Sanjay Sipahimalani

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“…nothing quite prepares us for Chabria’s clone…. the premise is imaginative – and irreverent…her prose is as eloquent as her poetry.” 

— Sudipta Datta

The Financial Times