KR Meera’s writing is always difficult to define or tie down to one genre or theme. Her latest novella Qabar is no different. From the first page on, the story is both real life and a fairy tale. Is ...

Celebrated Malayalam writer-journalist K.R. Meera's new novella will be published by Eka, an imprint of Westland, this December. Titled 'Qabar', the book is translated into English by Nisha Susan.

K.R. Meera’s magic-realism-suffused novella, Qabar, can seem like a conundrum at first, making you wonder about its true essence. But then you realise that the work defies specificity and ...