Neti, Neti

Author:

Anjum Hasan

Publisher:

India Ink

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Publisher

India Ink

ISBN-13

9788186939512

ISBN-10 9788186939512
Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages 287 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7

Twenty-five-year-old Sophie Das has Moved from Shillong to Bangalore in search of work, fun and liberty.Neti,Neti follows Sophine and her free-spirited friends through offices,pubs, call centres, night streets, shopping malls, rock concerts, and the home of Bangalore's newly rich, as Sophie starts to feel more and more alienated in the money-mad city. A hoirrific murder send her back to her hometown where her hamlet-quoting father and increasingly religious mother are chaisng their dreams. Will sophie be able to pull back from the brink and find herslef a home? Neti, Neti is one of the first Indian novels to bring to vivid life the situation of a young woman in the big city, and to do so in a way that balances cynicism with wit, warmth with uncertainly, existential doubts with the pulls of the everyday world.

Anjum Hasan

Anjum Hasan is the author of three novels-The Cosmopolitans (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award), Neti Neti (shortlisted for the Hindu Best Fiction Award) and Lunatic in My Head (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award)-as well as a book of short stories, Difficult Pleasures (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award and the Hindu Best Fiction Award), and a book of poems. She lives in Bangalore.
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