Nandita Dinesh holds a PhD in Drama from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and an MA in Performance Studies from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Focused on the role that theatre and writing can play during and after violent conflict, Nandita has conducted community-based theatre projects in Kashmir, India, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, and Zimbabwe. She has written multiple books about her work and in 2017 she was awarded the Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy by Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. This is her first novel.
"The novel’s tense dialogue serves as a brilliant foil for the
uncertainty, waiting and vulnerability of life ... boldly inventive
... reminiscent of Margaret Atwood’s 'The Handmaid’s Tale' ... " --
The San Francisco Chronicle
"Original and inventive, this is a novel that speaks to our times."
-- Ms. Magazine
"Dinesh uses her wealth of experience to craft a thought-provoking
novel that doesn’t claim to have all the answers. Rather, This
Place | That Place invites further exploration and provides a new
lens through which to see the world." -- Access Bollywood
“A wild, inventive novel that dismantles the certainties of
borders, nations, and empires."—Siddhartha Deb
“Nandita Dinesh’s This Place | That Place is endlessly inventive,
deeply human, and profoundly relevant to Ukraine and our
neo-fascist present. A work of art with a beating heart, it is an
astonishing debut.”—Curtis White, author of Lacking Character and
Living in a World That Can’t be Fixed
“An audacious and original work of imagining, set in a world where
there is nothing more dangerous than unconventional ideas.” Fatima
Bhutto, author of The Runaways and The New Kings of the World
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