Publisher |
Simon & Schuster |
Publication Year |
2018 |
ISBN-13 |
9789386797223 |
ISBN-10 |
9789386797223 |
Binding |
Hardcover |
Number of Pages |
240 Pages |
Language |
(English) |
Weight (grms) |
295 |
Seema, married to a Deputy Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Secretariat, voices her dissent during the Emergency, which leads (inevitably) to marital discord and, less predictably, to a new reckoning of her mother’s private history – mama’s feelings for MN Roy, a major leader of the Communist movement in British India and abroad and her struggles to be supportive even after his disenchantment with Communism.
Suffused with paradoxes – empathy and arrogance, idealism and compromise, love and disdain, – Keki Daruwalla’s intricate and revealing novel follows the intertwined lives of the spirited and darkly humorous Seema and her unconventional mother. The story moves from India to Canada, from US to Mexico, deftly traversing upheavals from the Russian Revolution to the travails of McCarthyism, in a novel that is intimate, political and extraordinary.
Keki N. Daruwalla
Keki N. Daruwalla, poet and writer, lives in Delhi and has written over ten poetry volumes, a novella, two novels and half a dozen short story collections. His latest collection of poetry is The Map Maker (2002). His poetry volume The Keeper of the Dead won the Sahitya Akademi Award (1984) while Landscapes won the Commonwealth Poetry Award (Asia) in 1987. His first novel, Pepper and Christ was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Fiction Prize (Asia and UK) in 2010.
Keki N. Daruwalla
Simon & Schuster