India, Aug. 15 -- Your novel Out of It has been named as one of the books to be read in the face of the ongoing conflict. What role do you see for literary fiction in making sense of the world after Gaza?

The world will be irrevocably changed after Gaza. I do not think we have ever experienced in real time a genocide in this way. I think that the type of killing and the level of killing and the starvation, also the use of AI automated quadcopters and drones and the killing of children and women has been on a level that we have never had to witness in real time. There's a bizarre situation at the moment where books are being written about the genocide and were being published during the genocide while the genocide was continuing. One of t...