"The novel's tense dialogue serves as a brilliant foil for the uncertainty, waiting and vulnerability of life ... boldly inventive ... reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' ... "
– The San Francisco Chronicle "Original and inventive, this is a novel that speaks to our times."
– Ms. Magazine "Dinesh uses her wealth of experience to craft a thought-provoking novel that doesn't claim to have all the answers. Rather,
This Place That Place invites further exploration and provides a new lens through which to see the world."
– Access Bollywood
"A wild, inventive novel that dismantles the certainties of borders, nations, and empires."
–Siddhartha Deb "Nandita Dinesh's
This Place That Place is endlessly inventive, deeply human, and profoundly relevant to Ukraine and our neo-fascist present. A work of art with a beating heart, it is an astonishing debut."–
Curtis White, author of Lacking Character and Living in a World That Can't be Fixed "An audacious and original work of imagining, set in a world where there is nothing more dangerous than unconventional ideas.
" Fatima Bhutto, author of The Runaways and The New Kings of the World