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Book Specifications

SKUID
:
GG-84
ISBN
:
9788184000009
Published Year
:
2007
Author
:
Manju Kapur
Publisher
:
Random House Publishers
Book Condition
:
Used Good
Condition Note
:
This used book is in good condition
Book Binding Type
:
Hard Back
Language
:
English
No. of Pages
:
337
Dimensions
:
22 x 13.5 cm
Availability
:
In Stock

Book Description

In Manju Kapoor's emblematic new novels the seemingly tranquil world of joint family is coming apart. Banwari lal, patriarch also cloth business in a middle class New Delhi neighbourhood of Karol Bagh, is a believer in the old ways. Main work out of the home, woman within. Man carry forward the family line women enable the mission. his two sons unquestioningly follow the father in the business and in life, but device will not. Neither will his grand-daughter who make choices considered unavailable to the women of the family. With unswervingly attention Kapoor follow the member of the traditional family into the an uneasy world they come to inhabit. From the frenetc sensory overload of modern urban India she constructs a story as interact quiet and dazzy as the fabric produced by the family. Told in a sustained colloquial was home is startling in in its Sweep and unerringly accurate in the bleakness and hope its presence.