Author of
Between This World and the Next (Restless Books, 2023)
Born in London to Sri Lankan parents and educated in the UK, where he graduated from Oxford and completed UEA’s Creative Writing MA, Praveen Herat currently resides in Paris. But it was a three-year period living in Phnom Penh that marked him profoundly as a writer. This would be the prelude to the research and writing that became Between This World and the Next, a literary thriller that charts the evolution of transnational crime after the fall of the Soviet Union across numerous locations, encompassing not only Cambodia but Ukraine, Dubai, and Liberia. In between times, he has worked in a variety of fields: supporting victims of domestic abuse, project-managing museum events and working with young people as an academic coach.
Praveen Herat
Books by Praveen
Between This World and the Next (Restless Books, 2023)
Set in 1998, Between This World and the Next tells the story of Fearless, a burnt-out British photojournalist hardened by a long career in war-torn countries, and Song, a Cambodian woman who has been physically and psychologically beset by the legacy of violent revolution in her country. When Song disappears, leaving only a mysterious videotape behind, Fearless must navigate a dangerous network of shady power brokers, sex traffickers, and arms dealers, to find her, uncovering a sprawling network of criminality and corruption. A passionate exploration of power, poverty, and greed, Between This World and the Next confronts our own complicity as passive observers when exposed to a constant stream of media depicting suffering across the world, the global ramifications of the collapse of the USSR, and the hidden criminal networks that impact our lives in ways beyond our reckoning.