TY  - BOOK
AU  -  Ismail Darbesh
AU  - Ramaswamy,V (tr.)
TI  - TALASHNAMA : Quest
SN  - 9789354898952
U1  - F 
PY  - 2024////01/01
CY  - Haryana
PB  - Harper Collins
KW  - Fiction
N1  - Set in Sadnahati, a Muslim-majority village in West Bengal, Talashnama is the story of Riziya, an educated and headstrong woman with an anguished past....

Hounded by a devastating secret, Riziya elopes with her tutor, Suman Nath, a Hindu, although it is Tahirul - the local Imam torn between duty and desire - who is her true love. On the day she leaves, she allegedly writes anti-Islamic graffiti on the wall of the village mosque - an incident that both baffles and enrages the villagers. Ten years later, Suman Nath takes his own life, and Riziya must return to a Sadnahati fraught with disapproval and condemnation.....

Ismail Darbeshs debut novel, Talashnama, is a thrilling literary tour de force, where love, religion, modernity and politics collide. A bestseller in the original Bangla and translated brilliantly by V. Ramaswamy, it is also an evocative inquiry into the uncertainties and challenges of being Muslim in todays India
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