This Place That Place, Nandita Dinesh
This Place That Place, Nandita Dinesh
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This Place That Place

Author: Nandita Dinesh

Narrator: Deepa Samuel

Unabridged: 7 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/27/2022

Categories: Fiction, Political


Synopsis

In a nameless country under military occupation, two friends prepare to attend a wedding. The young man is from the occupied region ("This Place"), the woman is from the occupying nation-state ("That Place"). The complicated relationship between these two protagonists with unusual professions—he is a Protest Designer and she is a De-programmer—is tested when, on the eve of the wedding, the occupying power, That Place, formally annexes This Place and declares a curfew.

Suddenly finding themselves confined to the same isolated space, the young woman and man try to kill time but inevitably wind up talking about the ways in which the war between their homelands pervades the unexplored and undeniable attraction between them. Will their relationship become another casualty of war?

This Place That Place is an evocative novel that functions as a bold allegory for militarized occupations anywhere. This brilliant literary debut provides new ways to think about the intersections between the personal and the political; between occupier and occupied; between the kinds of bonds that endure, and those that have no choice but to fracture.

About Nandita Dinesh

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 theater and writing can play during and after violent conflict, Nandita has conducted community-based theater 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 Place That Place is her first novel.


Reviews

A fantastic read. Love the writing style. The author transports the reader into a world many of us will never know.......more

This is a fascinating and entertaining read that intelligently explores what it is like to live in a curfew. The book comes at a time where people not in a military-imposed lockdown are more experienced with figuring out how to pass time at home: during the pandemic. Most territories have now experi......more

Goodreads review by Donald

“…responses fuelled by unquestioned patriotism rather than a desire for an informed opinion?” Hmmm… I know that description… Trumpers. Occupation. Curfew. Propaganda. Us vs. Them. De-programming. This book is very, very interesting - and complex. "That Place" has occupied "This Place" and two young pe......more

Goodreads review by G.P.

A young man from This Place and a young woman from That Place are stuck inside during a military curfew in an unnamed country. They share stories, argue, discuss survival during curfew, and she explains her work in deprogramming soldiers. They’re in love, but nobody from either place would understan......more