Reposted by Jenny Bhatt
“I think you can make a distinction between historical fiction versus fiction that engages with the past. I am much more of the latter. I don’t see my works of fiction as having a pedagogical impulse to educate the reader about the past.”
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The Past as a Site of Radical Otherness in Nishant Batsha’s “A Bomb Placed Close to the Heart” - Public Books
“I am a novelist first and a historian second. That’s how the tension you mention resolves itself: I know I’m trying to tell a story.”
