Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize/ Longlisted for the The Economist Crossword Award
Set against the backdrop of conflicting cultures, political turbulence, and a deep sense of belonging to the contradictions that form Malaysia, Agni is struggling to comprehend her relationship with the land she calls home. Abhik – her childhood friend and new lover, is supportive of her quest to unbolt dark secrets from her past about her mother’s death, but the only man who can answer her questions is Jay Ghosh – for he still wears her mother’s demon’s teeth around his neck. Jay had been there with Shanti the evening she died. When Jay lands in Malaysia after thirty years – summoned by Colonel S, his mentor and father figure – Jay realises, as does Agni, that nothing is as it seems. Each must fight larger demons, for there are greater things at stake.
(2016) Ode to Broken Things, London: Repeater Books.
Launched in the UK in May 2016 and distributed by Penguin/Random House in the US.(Republication of Thunder Demons)
NewCity Lit: Decades of Living Dangerously
Article in Our FrontCover: The Irrepressible Dipika Mukherjee
Thunder Demons in Huffington Post Article on 50 Women Writing on Conflict, August 2014
Reviews
Wielding forthright prose and a thriller’s pace, Dipika Mukherjee weaves the personal life of an American professor into the political life of a nation on the verge of crisis.
Nota Benes, January 2017, World Literature Today
In Mukherjee’s contemporary political novel…Jay and Agni, the “broken things,” approach healing through their buried history “until the river floods and the silt uncovers what should remain hidden.
Publishers Weekly Book Review
With astonishing honesty, Dipika Mukherjee’s Thunder Demonsexposes modern Malaysia’s ugliest secrets in a page-turner of a tale about loyalty, love, family, memory, and the role of politics in the lives of ordinary human beings. This book will open the eyes of non-Malaysians and break the hearts of Malaysians by forcing us to confront what our country has become.
PreetaSamarasan, author ofEvening is the Whole day
With a strong cast of characters, Thunder Demons unveils Malaysia as it grapples with tradition in the face of globalization, especially over the issue of who is abumiputra. Combining themes of communal violence, religion and identity, this is a racy and dramatic story of love and betrayal.
Kishwar Desai, author of Witness by Night
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