Kuzhali Manickavel – författare

An enthralling collection of new and classic tales of the fearsome Djinn, from bestselling, award-winning and breakthrough international writers. Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; tormenting us, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends. And they are everywhere. On street corners, behind the wheel of a taxi, in the chorus, between the pages of books. Every language has a word for them. Every culture knows their traditions. Every religion, every history has them hiding in their dark places. There is no part of the world that does not know them. They are the Djinn. With stories from Neil Gaiman, Nnedi Okorafor, Amal El-Mohtar, Catherine Faris King, Claire North, E.J. Swift, Hermes (trans. Robin Moger), Jamal Mahjoub, James Smythe, J.Y. Yang, Kamila Shamsie, Kirsty Logan, K.J. Parker, Kuzhali Manickavel, Maria Dahvana Headley, Monica Byrne, Saad Hossain, Sami Shah, Sophia Al-Maria and Usman Malik.

In the oppressive heat of a small Tamil Nadu Town, strange happenings are common. And the local secondary school, run by the government, is teeming with supernatural entities. For Thamarai, an outsider considered strange by her peers, life is already a dreary existence. She endures verbal abuse from her classmates, and despises that her lecherous English teacher has aimed his flagrant lust against P. Yamuna, a beautiful girl in her grade. When a mysterious compendium about the supernatural entities allows Thamarai to cross into a terrifying surreal dimension, she embarks on a quest to understand the entities, as well as track their movements. But the other world demands a price. Each time she travels, a piece of her is left behind, making her less tangible in her own reality. As the teacher's depravity grows more dangerous, Thamarai must unmask two different kinds of monsters before her own body fades away entirely.