''Seventeen Tomatoes: Tales from Kashmir'' is a book of linked stories by

Jaspreet Singh Jaspreet Singh (born 1969) is a Canadian writer and chemist. Life and early career He grew up in India and moved to Canada in 1990. He is a former research scientist with a PhD in chemical engineering from McGill University. From August 2006 u ...

. It revolves around two boys coming of age in

Kashmir Kashmir () is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term "Kashmir" denoted only the Kashmir Valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal Range. Today, the term encompas ...

. Published by

Véhicule Press The Vehicule Poets was a collective formed in Montreal in the 1970s by poets Endre Farkas, Artie Gold, Tom Konyves, Claudia Lapp, John McAuley, Stephen Morrissey and Ken Norris, who shared an interest in experimental American poetry and Europea ...

and IndiaInk, it was awarded the 2004 McAuslan First Book Prize. The Indian edition spells the title as ''17 Tomatoes''.

External links

Canadian Publisher's site

Indian Publisher's site

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