Description
Moushumi Kandali's quietly devastating novel explores the specific social world of contemporary Assam—its landscapes, its ethnic tensions, its gender politics, and the particular experience of women navigating tradition and modernity—with the linguistic precision and the genuine social intelligence that have made her one of the most important voices in contemporary Indian regional fiction. Written with the insider authority and the literary care that distinguish the best Indian regional writing, this is essential reading for every admirer of Indian literary fiction in its full geographic and cultural range. An important novel.
