Tell Her Everything

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Tell Her Everything is the third novel by Mirza Waheed [1] which was published in 2018 by Westland Books [2] and republished on 7 February 2023 by Melville House Publishing. [3] It is the story of a father who is preparing to reveal his own unsavory past to the now-grown daughter that he sent away to boarding school as a small child. [4]

Critical reception

Jury of The Hindu Literary Prize described the book as "sensitive and complex", [5] Saudamini Jain of Hindustan Times wrote: "Tell Her Everything is a sedate exploration of moral accountability, of the ethics and emotions of morality." [6] Sanjay Sipahimalani of Scroll.in wrote "The author's third novel is the digressive first-person account of a doctor reliving a difficult past." [7]

The book has been also reviewed by Somak Ghoshal of Live Mint, [8] Vaishna Roy of The Hindu, [9] Suma Nagaraj of Deccan Chronicle, [10] and Karthik Shankar of HuffPost. [11]

The book won 2019 The Hindu Literary Prize. [5] [12]

References

  1. ↑ Bhura, Sneha. "Mirza Waheed on exploring intense father-daughter relationship in third book". The Week India . Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  2. ↑ Waheed, Mirza (2018). Tell Her Every Thing. Westland. ISBN   978-93-87578-89-0.
  3. ↑ Waheed, Mirza (14 February 2023). Tell Her Everything. Melville House. ISBN   978-1-68589-043-8.
  4. ↑ Ghoshal, Somak (17 March 2019). "Book Review: 'Tell Her Everything' by Mirza Waheed". Livemint. Archived from the original on 14 April 2019. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  5. 1 2 Krithika, R. (25 March 2020). "Santanu Das, Mirza Waheed win The Hindu Prize 2019". The Hindu . ISSN   0971-751X. Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  6. ↑ Jain, Saudamini (21 June 2019). "Review: Tell Her Everything by Mirza Waheed". Hindustan Times . Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  7. ↑ Sipahimalani, Sanjay. "'Tell Her Everything': Mirza Waheed's new novel affirms that we are all many shades of grey". Scroll.in . Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  8. ↑ Ghoshal, Somak (17 March 2019). "Book Review: 'Tell Her Everything' by Mirza Waheed". Live Mint . Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  9. ↑ Roy, Vaishna (16 February 2019). "'Tell Her Everything' by Mirza Waheed reviewed by Vaishna Roy". The Hindu . ISSN   0971-751X. Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  10. ↑ Nagaraj, Suma (24 March 2019). "Book review: Tell Her Everything by Mirza Waheed". Deccan Herald . Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  11. ↑ Shankar, Karthik (5 March 2019). "Book Review: Mirza Waheed's 'Tell Her Everything' Is A Twist On The Indian Immigrant Success Story". HuffPost . Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  12. ↑ Waheed, Mirza; Das, Santanu. "Mirza Waheed wins the Hindu Prize 2019 for fiction, Santanu Das for non-fiction". Scroll.in . Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
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