Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan

Book Details ISBN 9781632061423 Author Deepak Unnikrishnan Publisher Simon & Schuster India Language English Binding Paperback Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan is a vivid and inventive work of fiction that captures the lives of migrant workers in the Gulf through connected, lyrical stories. Blending realism, humor, and mythic imagination, the book explores displacement, labor, identity, and belonging with striking originality. Readers drawn to contemporary literary fiction will find a powerful portrait of invisible lives and the emotional cost of survival. Temporary People offers a bold, memorable reading experience that is at once intimate, unsettling, and deeply humane.