Acid / Sangeetha Sreenivasan ; translated from the Malayalam by the the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Śr̲īnivāsan, Saṅgīta, author, translator.

Standardized Title:

Āsiḍ. English

Language:

English

Malayalam

Subjects (All):

Lesbians--Fiction.

Lesbians.

Secrecy--Fiction.

Secrecy.

Malayalam fiction--Translations into English.

Malayalam fiction.

Bangalore (India)--Fiction.

Bangalore (India).

Physical Description:

ix, 388 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Gurgaon, Haryana, India : Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2022.

Summary:

"Life is a brief, waking dream--but who casts the spell? Two striking women, Kamala and Shaly, helm an unusual household, fueled by their intense, tempestuous romance in a rapidly changing Bangalore. Downstairs, Kamala's sons take care of each other in their own way--the twins are bound together by an early accident that paralysed Shiva, making Aadi his brother's caretaker. Beautiful Shaly is the object of more than one person's affections--and she, too, has a complicated past. When her mother dies, Kamala returns to Kerala--to an ancestral house of horrors which lies next to the cremation grounds in Cochin's outlying reaches: a place which, nevertheless, is home. However, nothing can prepare her for the devastation that ensues in this lyrical, hallucinatory trip of a story."--Back cover.

Notes:

Translation of: Āsiḍ.

"First published in Malayalam by DC Books, Kottayam 2016"--Title page verso.

ISBN:

9780143457046

0143457047

OCLC:

1333620923