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Meet author Kiran Bhat

Meet author Kiran Bhat as he talks about his first book "we of the forsaken world...". Kiran spent 10 years working on this book while traveling to 132 countries and learning 12 languages.

Meet author Kiran Bhat, global citizen, as he talks about his first book we of the forsaken world…. Kiran spent 10 years working on this book while traveling to 132 countries and learning 12 languages. Learn about his writing process and hear him read from this captivating adventure.

we, of the forsaken world...

In a distant corner of the globe, a man journeys to the birthplace of his mother, a tourist town destroyed by an industrial spill. In a nameless remote tribe, the chief’s second son is born, creating a scramble for succession as their jungles are being destroyed by loggers. In one of the world’s sprawling metropolises, a homeless one-armed woman sets out to take revenge upon the men who trafficked her. And, in a small village of shanty shacks connected only by a mud-and- concrete road, a milkmaid watches the girls she calls friends destroy her reputation.

we of the forsaken world…, soon to be published by Iguana Books on January 22nd, 2020, is structured as a linguistic chain comprising the accounts of 16 people, connected along subtle lines, who indirectly witness these four narratively and geographically diverse central storylines. The story flows and recombines like digital connectivity, throwing into question pre-21st century assumptions about narrative logic and, I hope, embodying the way in which modern communication unites this planet every second, everywhere.