Description
In a tense, contemporary New Delhi, a mild-mannered history professor is drawn into a crisis when his young ward’s injury forces him to confront the pressures closing in around them. As the city’s political and social tensions sharpen, their private lives become entangled with competing versions of loyalty, memory, and “national” duty—turning everyday choices into moral tests. With love, lust, and a chilling undercurrent of menace, the novel follows Shiv as he is pushed to decide what kind of future he will help shape, and what kind of past he will refuse to serve. Githa Hariharan’s incisive, culturally attuned storytelling—sharp, gripping, and unsentimental—examines how hatred and ideology can invade ordinary relationships, leaving people to navigate siege-like conditions without ever fully understanding who is holding the walls.
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paperback
Vintage
Published Aug 10, 2004
224 pages
ISBN: 9781400033379
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First Published
2002
Language
eng
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