Centre

Welcome to The Centre. The cost may be high, but you`ll never be the same . . . Anisa Ellahi longs to become a translator of `great works of literature`, but right now she is stuck in her London flat writing subtitles for Bollywood films. Then she is told about the Centre, an elite, invite-only programme that guarantees complete fluency in any language in just ten days. Seduced by all that it could make possible, Anisa enrols. But the Centre`s services come at a disturbing hidden cost. Still - it`s worth it, right? After all, success comes at a price . . . By turns dark, funny and surreal, The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi takes the reader on a journey through Karachi, London and New Delhi. Throughout it interrogates the sticky politics of language, translation and appropriation and asks: what price would you be willing to pay for success?