Soon, Nikki realises that their stories may place them at a risk in a community policed by a group of unemployed men called the “Brothers”. But as they begin to open up, they start sharing steamy stories about their womanhood, sexuality, and hilarious escapades. To her dismay, the barely literate middle-aged and elderly women in her class are not interested in her feminist talk. Jaswal, whose father was in the foreign services, has lived all around the world, including Australia, Japan, Russia, the Philippines, Turkey, the US and the UK, but her Punjabi upbringing is at the heart of all her three novels.Įrotic stories follows Nikki, the 22-year-old self-appointed “fem fighter” who starts a creative writing class for women in a Southall gurdwara. Director Sir Ridley Scott’s production company, Scott Free Productions and Film4, which produced “The Martian”, has bought the film rights to the book. Balli Kaur Jaswal, author of the novel ‘Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows’ (HT Photo)Īccording to The Bookseller, HarperCollins bagged Erotic Stories in a “strong” six-figure deal after staving off five other publishers to win the title at an auction. Her current work was inspired by the time she spent in Southall. Her second novel “Sugarbread” was a finalist for Singapore’s 2015 Epigram Books Fiction Prize. In 2014, she was named the “Best Young Australian Novelist” by Sydney Morning Herald for her debut novel “Inheritance”.
Book cover of the novel ‘Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows’.īalli Kaur Jaswal, the 33-year-old author born in Singapore, is no stranger to literary acclaim.
A dark but heart-warming comedy, the novel delves into the lives of Punjabi widows, who may have spent a lifetime being dutiful in the shadows of their fathers, husbands and brothers, but whose white “dupattas” hide their rich and colourful inner lives. Published in March this year, “Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows” is flying off the book shelves in places as far apart as Melbourne and London.
And it’s making waves in literary circles across the world. It’s a tale set in Southall, the mini-Punjab in London, written by a woman in Singapore.
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