8.17 Daisy Rockwell: On Ghosts, Secrets, and the Stories That Haunt Us

Books and Beyond with Bound

What happens when the ghosts you see are more reliable than the people you know?
In this episode, Daisy Rockwell, the internationally acclaimed, Booker Prize-winning translator and author, takes us inside the unique world of her latest novel, Alice Sees Ghosts, a family story where a young woman sees her grandfather’s ghost, who nudges her to unearth buried family secrets.
Daisy shares how she began translating Hindi and Urdu literature and what inspired her to write her own fiction. She shared how she weaves history and the supernatural into a story that travels across continents and how she creates characters that are anything but ordinary.
Plus, we get a look into her writing process, her upcoming projects, and how winning a major literary prize has changed her life.
Tune in to experience a deep dive into family, ghosts and the beautifully unsettling way the past can haunt the present.
Books mentioned in the episode:
1. Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree
2. Mai by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Nita Kumar
3. Taste by Daisy Rockwell
4. Heart Lamp: Selected Stories by Dr. Banu Mushtaq
5. History’s Angel by Anjum Hasan
6. Falling Walls by Upendranath Ashk, translated by Daisy Rockwell
7. A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There by Krishna Sobti, translated by Daisy Rockwell
8. Our Friend, Art (upcoming memoir by Daisy Rockwell)
Movie mentioned in the episode:
Frozen (2013)

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