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Articles: Talents | Dark Rooms: Novel from a Telugu Software Engineer
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Dark Rooms: A novel (in verse) Rare;
About a life affair;
at a time unfair;
in a country bare
Siddharth Katragadda is a Telugu Software Engineer based at San Diego, USA. His first book, Dark Rooms: A Saga, is released in September 2002 from Publish America.
Dark Rooms is the story of one man that distills an entire country's helplessness in its early post-independence era. The Dark Rooms of a once rich and famous house becomes a metaphor for the failure of the young lives that once lived there.
Gopal is the only one left in the Kachiguda house. In its dark rooms, once filled with a great family legacy, his legendary father’s intellectual whispers and the cries of six children, he looks back on a generation gone wrong. Where did they go wrong in their lives? Can a family’s decadence be explained in the little things left behind in those dark rooms a picture of his father standing next to his Moris Minor, a broken gramophone, a deserted kitchen. Sleeping for hours under an old creaking fan, he looks back to his failed marriage to Kaveri, Kaveri who left him, remarried and moved to America.
Praise for Dark Rooms:
This book is definitely a work of literary art. The author knows how to create a mood, and not only that, to draw the reader into an incredibly rich labyrinth of pain and suffering. I realized that I could only read it in short spans of time because there was so much to ponder. There's an eeriness to it as well. A feeling of being haunted, even though it's not a ghost story. The author has this wonderful ability to create a story that resonates the entire way through. It's transformative in many ways, as well, and that a person who enters this text will not exit the same person. It's impossible for the reader not to be touched by the people here. T here is also, a lot of commentary that is thought-provoking: on the arts, on breaking with tradition, on responsibility to family, self! (Terrie Relf, Poetry Editor, Writers Monthly)
Author's Biography:
Siddharth Katragadda was born in India. He came to America to pursue his masters degree in 1995. He currently works as a Software Engineer in San Diego, California. His first book, 'Dark Rooms: A Novel in Verse', was published PublishAmerica in September 2002. His poems have appeared in A Generation Defining Itself, Golden Thoughts, America at the Millennium and Sulekha. He is the winner of two Editor's Choice Awards awarded by the International Library of Poetry. His first Novel is awaiting publication, an excerpt of which was published in Writer's Monthly. Both the Novel and Dark Rooms, will eventually be a part of trilogies - a trilogy of Novels and a trilogy of Verse Collections. He is already completing the second part of the Dark Rooms Trilogy - Pariah Streets, expected to be out in 2003. He lives with his wife in San Diego, California.
Dark Rooms, ISBN: 1-59129-503-3, Publish America Inc., 152 Pages, Trade Paper (Publication Date: September 2002). Distributors: Baker & Taylor, Ingram, Brodart Co.
For more information on the book, please visit http://www.darkrooms.latest-info.com
Let all of us congratulate Siddharth on his great achievement!
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