{"id":7550,"date":"2016-08-24T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T16:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/?page_id=7550"},"modified":"2025-08-12T20:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:35:47","slug":"pratap-reddy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/pratap-reddy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratap Reddy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pratap Reddy moved to Canada from India in 2002 and now resides in Mississauga, Ontario. Reddy studied economics at Osmania University, Hyderabad, and received additional education at Toronto Metropolitan University and at the Humber School for Writers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ramya’s Treasure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2018.
PS8635.E337 R36 2018<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Ramya, an immigrant from India, is nearing her 50th birthday. But there’s no cause to cheer. Recently separated, and laid off from work as well, she feels lonely, alienated, and despondent. Then one day she chances upon a sandalwood box containing her cherished childhood treasures, and this triggers the need to review her present circumstances.Delving into her past, Ramya tries to find strength to reconstruct her future, to rediscover meaning and purpose. Written with sympathy and humour, the novel has two intertwined threads simultaneously unspooling: one set in the present about Ramya’s battle to rebuild her life; the other, a series of sorties into the past. One narrative skein is Canadian, modern and multicultural, while the other is Indian, steeped in myth and mysticism. They are the two sides of the same coin: the world as seen through the bi-focal lens of immigrant reality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Remaindered People & Other Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The author\u2019s first collection Weather Permitting & Other Stories<\/em> was centred on the predicament of new immigrants who are coping with the challenges they face immediately upon arrival in Canada. In this new collection, the focus is on the other side of immigration, exploring the often-neglected aspects: the plight of empty nesters left behind in India, parents compelled to immigrate with their adult children, about immigrants returning to their home country for good or for holiday, of people aspiring to migrate but falling by the wayside. Whatever the surrounding circumstances, all the stories are about people on the move, people who often don\u2019t seem to know where they are headed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Short stories)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Weather Permitting & Other Stories<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2016.
Online book PS8635 .E337 W43 2016eb<\/a> (access restricted to TMU community members)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

The stories in this collection centre around new immigrants — spirited people prepared to leave their home and hearth to travel to distant lands in pursuit of dreams of a better life. But often times there’s a reality check, and they are left to grapple with unexpected challenges: cultural shock, lack of Canadian work experience and jobs, absence of affordable daycare, and non-recognition of their educational credentials. Despite this, the stories show the determination of these immigrants to survive on alien soil.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anthology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Changing the Face of Canadian Literature<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Reddy, Pratap. “The Lime Tree.” In Changing the Face of Canadian Literature<\/em>, edited by Dane Swan. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First published in Maple Tree Literary Supplement<\/em> 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chilana, Rajwant Singh. “Pratap Reddy.” In South Asian Writers in Canada: A Bio-Bibliographical Study<\/em>. Surrey, BC: Asian Publications, 2017, 243.
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Pratap Reddy personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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