About the Book: SOLILOQUIES: Adil Jussawalla and Jeet Thayil
soften the blow, God.
Adil Jussawallas Soliloquies-written when he was barely eighteen-does what only
the most ambitious of literary works can do: it grasps for the numinous.
The protagonist Jians struggle-marked by long hours of darkness and brief
flickers of revelation, by perturbation and torment and then, a floodlight of
perception-is intimate, yet epic in its sweep and animated with visions so
bright, they sear.
Soliloquies, written when Adil Jussawalla was barely eighteen, is a brilliant
and precocious work that tests the powers and limits of language. Thayil
Editions One carries, for the