LIMPING TO THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD

A remarkable journey to a truly inhospitable region of the world (Penguin India)

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the CHILDREN AND ANIMALS
Children and animals join forces to save their jungle home.
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 BOOKS

May 2011

I have my own blog http://timmurari.blogspot.com

I am now represented by Kimberly Witherspoon and William Callahan of Inkwell Management, New York.

Ecco Press, New York, will publish my new novel, THE TALIBAN CRICKET CLUB, in July 2012. Editor: Lee Boudreaux . Rights sold to Harper, Canada, Allen and Unwin UK and ANZ, Holland: Bezige Bij/Cargo, Norway: Juritzen. So far.

The novel is set in Kabul when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan.
A FACT: In 2000, the Taliban announced they would promote cricket in the country to counter their bad image, and applied to the International Cricket Council for associate membership. The narrator is a young woman journalist who finds her life in great danger, and has to escape the obsessive love of a Taliban commander.

If you have read THE IMPERIAL AGENT (reissued by Penguin last year), then you will have to read the continuing story of Kimbal O’Hara in THE LAST VICTORY. If you haven’t read either yet, you’re missing a wonderful adventure story set in early 20th century India.

THE AXXISS TRILOGY.

I have completed Book One, AXXISS AND THE ISAAC NETWON CHORDS.
A sweeping adventure trilogy in which a magical black dog and six teenage children have to seek the help of Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, Einstein, Gandhi, among others, and enter a parallel universe, to find the key that will send the evil Gondwana kingdom, released from the deep by a massive earthquake, back down to the bottom. The novel is with my agent.

CHILDREN OF THE ENCHANTED JUNGLE (Scholastic 2009)

A young adult novel about orphaned children and their wildlife friends fighting against an evil witch to save their jungle from destruction.

THE IMPERIAL AGENT (Penguin 2009)

Penguin reissued my best seller which continues the life story of Kipling’s character, Kim. Click on the cover for reviews and an excerpt.


LIMPING TO THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD. A journey to Mount Kailash. NON-FICTION. Penguin India. (2008)

I trekked to Mount Kailash/Lake Mansarovar in remote western Tibet on a pilgrimage. It is considered one of the hardest pilgrimages on earth due to the hostile but awesome terrain. I didn’t mean to write a book but that’s what happens to writers. We write them despite ourselves.
The book was launched with an audio-visual presentation at The Park, Chennai, in June 2008. The Deccan Chronicle wrote ‘The 120 people who attended the presentation went home grateful to Murari for taking the trip, thanks to the incredible experiences and stories he told them.’

THE SMALL HOUSE. FICTION. Penguin India. (2007)

The Small House is a many-layered exploration of the fragility of modern-day relationships, of desire, passion and ambition, and of memories that lie in wait to threaten the present.

‘TAJ- A story of Mughal India’ now has a Czech (BB/Arts) edition and Bulgarian (Almera Editions), and re-prints by Philippe Picquier (France) and Dromer Knaur Verlag (German). The Russians have just bought the rights. That makes 19 translations in all.


THE ARRANGEMENTS OF LOVE.

French rights : MERCURE DE FRANCE, France. Published April 2007.


 A MEMOIR


MY TEMPORARY SON- an orphan’s journey which is a very personal work about the relationship between an orphaned baby and me and my wife. It’s Number 5 on the India best seller list. Penguin India. All other rights available. Click on the cover in my Home Page or Books to read all about it.

 

 
 THEATRE

 

Two One Act Black Comedy plays premiered at the Hindu Theatre Festival on 7 August 2007 in Chennai. (Click on Theatre for more details).

KILLING TIME.

Two assassins in a prison cell discuss the philosophies of their profession and life.

THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF SALMAN RUSHDIE.

Two poor village men find an old newspaper story that a huge reward will be paid for killing the writer and set out to do this, dreaming of the huge reward. While waiting for the country bus, they discuss the nature of violence, women, poverty and politics. They meet a woman who plays mind games with them...

 
 
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