Alternate Realities

Searching for Hogwarts in South Asia

01 December 2017
ILLUSTRATIONS BY PIA ALIZE HAZARIKA
ILLUSTRATIONS BY PIA ALIZE HAZARIKA

SOMEWHERE IN A UNIVERSE FAR, far away, a wall starts to crumble, and death begins to creep southwards into a land riven by strife and pride.

Somewhere in Britain, a dark wizard has gathered his forces, mustering an army that will hold a magical world in thrall.

And somewhere in the future, fertile women are enslaved, their bodies turned to the service of a god-fearing state for whom children are the most precious resource.

Achala Upendran is a graduate student at the University of Southern California. Her debut novel will be published by Hachette in 2018.

Keywords: literature speculative fiction books South Asia
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