: Both poetry and prose, both graphic novel and picture book, ‘Still Life’ exists on the borders #IndiaNEWS The cover of Anoushka Khan’s Still Life is black and white on Indian yellow – a modest

Both poetry and prose, both graphic novel and picture book, ‘Still Life’ exists on the borders #IndiaNEWS
The cover of Anoushka Khan’s Still Life is black and white on Indian yellow – a modest house on the hills, a textured roof, a monochrome drawing that gives away as little about the story as one could learn through the slightly open curtains of the house on the cover. With its eerie stillness, it draws you in. And it is only when you read the book that you realise that like the textures of the house and the grayscale of the drawing, Still Life is a story that looks simpler than it is.The graphic narrative follows Pinky, a woman whose life turns on its head when her husband Pasha goes missing. We follow, spectators, as the reclusive Pinky decides to set out in search of her husband, leaving her house to visit places she never has before. We encounter her history, and the history of her relationship with Pasha, through fragments and vignettes, as she recalls the past to make sense of the present. It feels intimate. The narration shifts from third to second person, as though the narrator is recounting the story to Pasha and the readers, but also to herself. Memory, loss, separationWe are present with the narrator but there is a haunting quality...Read more

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