Devika k r meera (4 risultati)

Condizione: New. pp. [vi] + 228.

Condizione: New. pp. [vi] + 228 1st Published.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 240 pages. 7.72x5.04x0.63 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condizione: New. From the award-winning author of Hangwoman. Late one night in November 2016, Satyapriya, a middle-aged professional living alone in a big city, is attacked by an unidentified assailant. Though she escapes unhurt, a conversation with her paralysed father reveals that this was no random incident but the latest in a series of attempts to kill her. And when he dies unexpectedly soon after, a devastated Satyapriya sets out to unravel the conspiracy coiling around her. Beginning at the height of India's demonetization drive and culminating on the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, this is a novel that raises uncomfortable questions of identity and gender in a country where power, patriarchy, caste and money conspire every day to shape the contours of women's lives. K.R. Meera's Assassin - originally published in Malayalam as Ghathakan, and brilliantly translated by J. Devika - is a genre-defying magnum opus that every Indian must read.…