Names of the Women
Jeet Thayil
Names of the Women
Jeet Thayil
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From the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles were suppressed, reduced or erased in the Gospels.
'Dazzling, smouldering .
Names of the Women is an extraordinary work of restoration, playful invention, and stark beauty.
Bold and compelling.
Theologically well-informed, imaginative and affecting . . . This is a fascinating and beautiful book. You most certainly do not have to be either a Christian or a feminist to appreciate it.
Achingly beautiful. Powerful, poetic and profoundly feminist.
Jeet Thayil's Names of the Women enacts a long-overdue reinstating of female voices in the story of Jesus . . .
JEET THAYIL was born in 1959 into a Syrian Christian family in Kerala, and educated at Jesuit schools in Bombay, Hong Kong and New York. Kerala's Syrian Christians trace their church to St. Thomas, who arrived on the Malabar coast around 50 AD and converted thirteen Hindu families to Christianity, or so tradition has it. Jeet's grandmother, Chachiamma Jacob, was the last of the family who recited from memory the hour-long service in Aramaic, Malayalam and Sanskrit that still defines the faith.