Mrs D'Silva's Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of Calcutta - Brossura

Peters, Glen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1906998396 ISBN 13: 9781906998394

Casa editrice: Parthian Books, 2011

Riassunto

With recipes, murder, intrigue, and vernacular from another era, this crime novel recaptures the tastes and turbulence of 1960s Calcutta as the city struggles with the changes pressing upon the country. Although Mrs. D'Silva, a young, widowed mother, is eager to be part of the new India, the new Kolkata, she enjoys her job as a teacher at Don Bosco's Catholic School and can't imagine doing anything else. Raised herself by the nuns of St. Mary's, she's particularly troubled when the body of Agnes Lai, a ward of the nuns of the Loreto Convent, washes up on the marshes of the Hooghly River. Mrs. D'Silva finds herself speculating on whether Agnes was murdered and if anyone cares when young girls go missing every day. Her horror increases when Anil Sen, a former student of Mrs. D'Silva and a close friend of Agnes, is charged with killing a factory worker during a riot started by the Worker's Revolutionary Movement of Bengal. The investigations are headed nowhere as the movement's ringleader, the saitan Dutta, runs circles around Inspector Basu, who is reluctantly involved in both cases. The situation evolves into shambles until Mrs. D'Silva discovers her detective instincts.

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Recensione:

A remarkably assured first novel... not only a gripping crime thriller with a political dimension, but also explores en route what it is that causes one to "belong" as a minority in a racially diverse society.... it is a ripping good yarn." William Sanderson-Meyer Johannesburg Star --Johannesburg Star

This taut political thriller, played out against the backdrop of the 1960s unrest in divided Calcutta... this novel wonderfully evokes time and place, and gives a sense of the betrayal and loss that change can cause." Susan Osborne, Waterstone's Quarterly --Waterstone's Quarterly

L'autore:

Glen Peters is a partner in an international accounting firm and the founder of Project Rhosygilwen, a Pembrokeshire-based rural arts-regeneration venture.

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• Editore: Parthian Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1906998396
• ISBN 13: 9781906998394
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 345