{"id":418,"date":"2012-06-15T19:34:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/shree-ghatage\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T12:36:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:36:22","slug":"ghatage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/ghatage\/","title":{"rendered":"Shree Ghatage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Shree Ghatage was born in Bombay [Mumbai], India. She came to Canada in the early 1980s and lived in Altantic Canada (St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador) for fifteen years. She now resides in Calgary, Alberta.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h3>\n

Awake When all the World is Asleep: Stories<\/h3>\n

Concord, ON: Anansi, 1997.
\nPS8563 .H37 A82 1997<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n

It is the mid-seventies, and Shaila has returned to Bombay for her father’s sixtieth birthday party. In the linked stories that follow, Shree Ghatage renders an India that can only be revealed by first leaving, and then returning again — in the end, for Shaila, for good.<\/p>\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n

1998 Danuta Gleed Literary Award (Nominated)
\n1998 Emerging Artist Award in Newfoundland and Labrador (Nominated)
\n1998 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award (Nominated)
\n1998 Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Fiction<\/h3>\n

Brahma’s Dream: A Novel<\/h3>\n

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2004.
\nPS8563 .H37 B73 2004 <\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n

Set in Bombay amid the turbulence of India’s surge towards self-rule, Brahma’s Dream<\/span><\/em> relates the story of thirteen-year-old Mohini, an unforgettable character whose medical problems and special wisdom set her apart from the world around her….<\/p>\n

A joyous and moving novel, astute and reflective, Brahma’s Dream<\/span><\/em> explores the Hindu belief that all life is part of a vast continuum, and that momentous political and social changes, birth, suffering, even death, are only as a twinkling in the eye of a god.<\/p>\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n

2004 Starred review in Quill & Quire (July 2004)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Fiction<\/h3>\n

Thirst<\/h3>\n

Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2012.
\nToronto: Anchor Canada, 2013.
\nPS8563 .H37 T47 2013<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (from its website)<\/h4>\n

Thirst <\/em>is about many forms of desire–and most particularly, at its heart, about love unexpectedly found and lost during a difficult time (WWII) and in an unlikely spot: within a hastily arranged union between two young people who begin their marriage as complete strangers. The lovers are Vasanti, an intelligent woman who has nonetheless grown up naive and protected; and Baba, the scion of a prominent Brahmin family who longs to study in London, thus escaping the family compound in Nagpur. The novel moves between the lushness of India and the sombre grayness of London during the Blitz, even as Ghatage brilliantly unwinds the story of two conflicted people who, slowly but surely, learn to tolerate, then like, then passionately love each other just as their worlds fall apart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Anthology (Short stories)<\/h3>\n

Her Mother’s Ashes 2<\/h3>\n

PS8329 .H472 1998<\/a><\/p>\n

Ghatage, Shree.\u00a0 “The Mango Tree.” In Her Mother’s Ashes 2: More Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States<\/em>, edited by Nurjehan Aziz.\u00a0 Toronto: TSAR, 1998.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h3>\n

Chilana, Rajwant Singh. “Shree Ghatage.” In South Asian Writers in Canada: A Bio-Bibliographical Study<\/em>. Surrey, BC: Asian Publications, 2017, 286-287.
\nZ1376 .S68 C45 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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Links<\/h3>\n

Profile from the Writers’ Union of Canada<\/a> website<\/p>\n

Publisher House of Anansi Press<\/a><\/p>\n

Publisher Random House of Canada<\/a> (publisher of Doubleday Canada imprint)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n

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