ASSASSIN
Meera K. R.
ASSASSIN (Original Malayalam Title : Ghathakan) /translated from the malayalam by J. Devika - 1 - Haryana HarperCollins Publishers 2023/01/01 - 654
From the award-winning author of Hangwoman . Late one night in November 2016, Satyapriya, a middle-aged professional living alone in a big city, is attacked by an unidentified assailant. Though she escapes unhurt, a conversation with her paralysed father reveals that this was no random incident but the latest in a series of attempts to kill her. And when he dies unexpectedly soon after, a devastated Satyapriya sets out to unravel the conspiracy coiling around her. Beginning at the height of India's demonetization drive and culminating on the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, this is a novel that raises uncomfortable questions of identity and gender in a country where power, patriarchy, caste and money conspire every day to shape the contours of women's lives. K.R. Meera's Assassin - originally published in Malayalam as Ghathakan , and brilliantly translated by J. Devika
9789356296268
Purchased Current Books, Convent Jn, Cochin
Fiction
F / MEE/AS
ASSASSIN (Original Malayalam Title : Ghathakan) /translated from the malayalam by J. Devika - 1 - Haryana HarperCollins Publishers 2023/01/01 - 654
From the award-winning author of Hangwoman . Late one night in November 2016, Satyapriya, a middle-aged professional living alone in a big city, is attacked by an unidentified assailant. Though she escapes unhurt, a conversation with her paralysed father reveals that this was no random incident but the latest in a series of attempts to kill her. And when he dies unexpectedly soon after, a devastated Satyapriya sets out to unravel the conspiracy coiling around her. Beginning at the height of India's demonetization drive and culminating on the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination, this is a novel that raises uncomfortable questions of identity and gender in a country where power, patriarchy, caste and money conspire every day to shape the contours of women's lives. K.R. Meera's Assassin - originally published in Malayalam as Ghathakan , and brilliantly translated by J. Devika
9789356296268
Purchased Current Books, Convent Jn, Cochin
Fiction
F / MEE/AS