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Moth / Melody Razak.
Van Pelt Library PR6118.A93 M68 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Razak, Melody, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Delhi (India)--History--20th century--Fiction.
- Delhi (India).
- India--Delhi.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 346 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021.
- Summary:
- Delhi, 1946. Ma and Bappu are liberal intellectuals teaching at the local university. Their fourteen year-old daughter - precocious, headstrong Alma - is soon to be married to a young man training to be a doctor: Alma is mostly interested in the wedding shoes and in spinning wild stories about evil spirits for her beloved younger sister Roop, a restless child obsessed with death. Times are bad for girls in India. The long-awaited independence from British rule is heralding a new era of hope, but also of anger and distrust: political unrest is brewing, threatening to unravel the rich tapestry of Delhi - a city where different cultures, religions and traditions have co-existed for centuries. When Partition happens and the British Raj is fractured overnight, the wonderful family we have come to love is violently torn apart, and its members - Ma and Bappu, Alma and Roop - are forced to find new and increasingly desperate ways to survive. But the resilience of the human spirit is an extraordinary thing...
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781474619233
- 1474619231
- 9781474619240
- 147461924X
- OCLC:
- 1156059500
- Publisher Number:
- 99988705120
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