It’s 2022 in London and the Queen is dead! Durga, an international Indian/German screenwriter with a huge appetite for rebellion and hallucinations runs past the mourners.
While Mithu Sanyal’s celebrated debut “Identitti” explored identity politics, “Antichristie” digs deep into colonialism and the violence within us all. Durga has been hired to do a film adaptation of the imperial Agatha Christie thrillers. But suddenly, she’s thrown back to 1906. She meets Indian rebels whose battles are far from non-violent like Gandhi’s. And then the first bomb explodes. What kind of resistance is right in a wrong world?
Mithu Sanyal writes with unparalleled wit and tenderness. “Antichristie” brings the whole world into a work of German-language literature.