She will build him a city / Raj Kamal Jha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jha, Raj Kamal, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mother and child--Fiction.

Mother and child.

Murder--Fiction.

Murder.

Forgiveness--Fiction.

Forgiveness.

Delhi (India)--Fiction.

Delhi (India).

India--Delhi.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

339 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2015.

Summary:

"As night falls in Delhi, a mother spins tales from her past for her sleeping daughter. Now grown up, her child is a puzzle with a million pieces, whom she hopes, through her words and her love, to somehow make whole again. Meanwhile, a young man rides the last train from Rajiv Chowk Station and dreams of murder. In another corner of the city, a newborn wrapped in a blood-red towel lies on the steps of an orphanage as his mother walks away. There are twenty million bodies in this city, but the stories of this woman, man, and child are only three. But their stories--of a secret love that blossoms in the shadows of grief, of a corrosive guilt that taints the soul, and of a boy who maps his own destiny--weave in and out of the lives of those around them to form a dazzling kaleidoscope of a novel. Beautiful, beguiling, and audacious, this is the story of a city and its people, of love and horror, of belonging and forgiveness: a powerful and unforgettable tale of modern India"--Jacket.

ISBN:

9781620409046

1620409046

9781620409060

1620409062

OCLC:

881092856