Back cover of The VulnerablesThe Vulnerables by Tapan Patel

Debut novel · 2020

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The
Vulnerables

A novel shaped by Tapan’s work in post-disaster situations and the people, places and questions that stayed with him.

Author
Tapan Patel
Published
2020
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Behind the book

The field behind
the fiction

Tapan’s writing grew from work and conversations in Kutch, Nepal, the Andamans and other places changed by disaster.

The novel carries that attention into fiction: how people live through rupture, rebuild daily life and hold on to what remains.

01 Kutch02 Nepal03 Andamans

A first book

Disaster work became the ground for a novel.

The Vulnerables book cover

Tapan self-published The Vulnerables in 2020. Readers can contact him for availability, book enquiries or conversation about the work behind it.

Reader questions

About the book

01

Is this Tapan’s first novel?

Yes. Tapan self-published The Vulnerables in 2020.

02

What informed the writing?

Tapan drew on years of work in post-disaster settings across India and beyond.