Description
On a sweltering summer evening in early 20th-century Delhi, Mir Nihal returns home to find his wife awake and eager to speak—setting in motion a family conversation that will reveal how love, duty, and tradition are being tested. As the lives of their children come into focus, the novel traces the shifting currents of Indian society under colonial rule, where private choices echo larger cultural change. With lyrical restraint and keen social observation, Ahmed Ali renders the intimate texture of domestic life while exploring themes of generational conflict, arranged marriage, identity, and the slow twilight of an old world. Part historical portrait and part emotional family drama, this is a story of transition—told through the moments that matter most.
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paperback
Oxford University Press, USA
Published Mar 7, 1985
320 pages
ISBN: 9780195773286
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First Published
1940
Language
eng
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