{"product_id":"the-hundred-names-of-darkness-isbn-9780345815576","title":"The Hundred Names of Darkness","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A delight to read. Eliot's Old Possum would have enjoyed these Practical Indian Cats.\" Salman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the sequel and conclusion to her critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Wildings\u003c\/i\u003e, Nilanjana Roy takes us back to the Delhi neighbourhood of Nizamuddin, and its unforgettable cats--Mara, Southpaw, Katar, Hulo and Beraal. As they recover slowly from their terrible battle with the feral cats, they find their beloved locality changing around them. Winter brings an army of predators--humans, vicious dogs, snakes, bandicoots--along with the cold and a scarcity of food...Unless Mara can help them find a safe haven, their small band will be wiped out forever. With the assistance of a motley group of friends including Doginder, a friendly stray; Hatch, a cheel who is afraid of the sky; Thomas Mor, an affable peacock; Jethro Tail, the mouse who roared; and the legendary Senders of Delhi, Mara and her band set out on an epic journey to find a place where they can live free from danger.\u003cb\u003ePraise for The Wildings Series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nilanjana Roy’s novel is a delight to read. Eliot’s Old Possum would have enjoyed these Practical Indian Cats.” —\u003cb\u003eSalman Rushdie\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With \u003ci\u003e. . . The Hundred Names of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, Roy has crafted a world that is as believable and every bit as lovingly rendered as [Neil] Gaiman’s [\u003ci\u003eSandman]. . . . \u003c\/i\u003eSeveral memorable animals, familiar and new, light up the pages of \u003ci\u003eThe Hundred Names of Darkness. . . . The Hundred Names of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e similarly suspends the enthralled reader between two worlds. By the time you finish the book, the boundaries between these worlds seem porous like never before. \u003cb\u003eIt is\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003ean astounding achievement\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003ethat rare book which marries high art with what is already becoming a feverish, cult-like following\u003c\/b\u003e.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Wildings\u003c\/i\u003e is above all a love paean to cats; that it also happens to be a marvelously spun novel that could well become a classic in its own time is almost secondary.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gripping, humorous and truly immersive.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSunday Indian\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A novel for all seasons and ages. . . . Roy has created a world of heightened senses and myriad species, a world that seems tangibly real.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndia Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Roy has created an immersive world of scents and sounds—we feel the corrugated steel roofs under paws, learn the best places to stay dry in a monsoon. The sleek queens, brawling toms and tail-chasing kittens live by a feline moral code, and you can feel their claws unsheath at the thought of the human world plotting their destruction. . . . It’s an absorbing debut. . . . It’s enjoyable to be reminded of how much life teems in our cities, and of just how many stories have nothing to do with us.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaclean’s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“One of the joys of this novel is Roy’s intricately imagined animal, avian, even insect society—a community that lives alongside but not as part of the bumbling, oblivious Bigfeet (that’s us). An ode to New Delhi and a thrilling adventure to boot.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“[C]harming and sometimes chilling. . . . The novel is fable-esque until the deadly battle begins. . . . Roy’s obvious love of these creatures has produced a vivid world while warning of the dangers of isolation and fear. \u003ci\u003eThe Wildings\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that can seduce even those most indifferent to cats.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eToronto Star \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“[P]art \u003ci\u003eWatership Down\u003c\/i\u003e and part \u003ci\u003eSlumdog Millionaire\u003c\/i\u003e—and entirely mesmerizing.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eReader’s Digest\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A beautiful re-visioning of Delhi, of friendship and of war. Roy has made the mind-link: her wildings hunt in my dreams.” —\u003cb\u003eAlissa York,\u003c\/b\u003e author of \u003ci\u003eFauna \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Naturalist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nilanjana Roy’s \u003ci\u003eThe Wildings\u003c\/i\u003e is a charming ode to the wild, feral, and caged cats of Delhi. It achieves so much in its ground-level, cat-centric witnessing of the urban landscape, and in the complex responses it provides to questions of freedom, difference, communication, instinct, and family. Roy’s cats bring to mind the creatures of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Rikki Tikki Tavi’ and Richard Adams’ \u003ci\u003eWatership Down\u003c\/i\u003e, and like these immensely popular stories, \u003ci\u003eThe Wildings\u003c\/i\u003e has a similarly warm heartbeat. I predict that Roy will win fans from all ages with this delightful debut.” —\u003cb\u003eKathryn Kuitenbrouwer\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Broken Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Nilanjana Roy’s dazzlingly original \u003ci\u003eThe Wildings \u003c\/i\u003ezeroes in on the mysterious and danger-filled lives of cats in a Delhi neighbourhood. The narrative, like the domain it is set in, is strikingly unique. . . . If a debut novel can be equated with a cat’s first kill, \u003ci\u003eThe Wildings\u003c\/i\u003e is as perfect a strike as Mara’s. Gripping, humorous and truly immersive, it is well worth a sequel.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Indian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A vivid and introspective narration that unfolds the life of a band of cats that live in the alleys and ground of Delhi’s Nizamuddin area, the book delightfully welcomes you to their animal kingdom.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times of India\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eNILANJANA ROY spent most of her adult life writing about humans before realizing that animals were much more fun. \u003ci\u003eThe Wildings\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Hundred Names of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e are her first novels. She writes a regular column for the \u003ci\u003eBusiness Standard \u003c\/i\u003eand the \u003ci\u003eInternational Herald Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, and her fiction and journalism have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eThe Caravan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCivil Lines 6\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, the\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e' India blog, \u003ci\u003eOutlook\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBiblio\u003c\/i\u003e. Some of her stories for children have been published in Scholastic's \u003ci\u003eSpooky Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eScience Fiction Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBe Witched\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eA Matter of Taste: The Penguin Book of Indian Writing on Food\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Delhi with two cats and her husband. 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