Leila

Author: Prayaag Akbar

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  • : $12.00 NZD
  • : 9780571341313
  • : Faber & Faber
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  • : 0.353
  • : July 2018
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  • : Prayaag Akbar
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  • : hardback with dustjacket
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  • : English
  • : very good
  • : 272
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Barcode 9780571341313
9780571341313

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Slight damage to dustjacket

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Leila does for the barbarity of contemporary Indian nationalism what The Handmaid's Tale did for the yoke of patriarchy. It is urgent, gripping, topical, disturbing, and announces a talent we'll be talking about for years to come. - Neel Mukherjee Soon to be adapted for the screen as a Netflix Original Every year on Leila's birthday Shalini kneels by the wall with a little yellow spade and scoops dry earth to make a pit for two candles. One each for herself and for Riz, the husband at her side. But as Shalini walks from the patch of grass where she held her vigil the man beside her melts away. It is sixteen years since they took her, her daughter's third birthday party, the last time she saw the three people she loves most dearly: her mother, her husband, her child.