As night falls in Delhi a mother spins tales from her past for her sleeping daughter. Her now grown-up child is a puzzle with a million pieces whom she hopes, through her words and her love, to somehow make whole again. Meanwhile, as the last train from Rajiv Chowk Station pulls away, a young man rides the metro and dreams of murder. In another corner of the city, a newborn wrapped in a blood-red towel lies on the steps of an orphanage as his mother walks away. There are twenty million bodies in this city and this woman, man and child are only three. But their stories - of a secret love that blossoms in the shadows of grief, of a corrosive guilt that taints the soul, and of an orphaned boy who maps out his own destiny - weave in and out of the lives of those around them to form a dazzling kaleidoscope of a novel. Beautiful, beguiling and audacious, this is the story of a city and its people, of love and horror, of belonging and forgiveness: a powerful and unforgettable tale of modern India.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd.
ISBN: 9781408855058
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 01/02/2015
Año de edición: 2015
Plaza de edición: Reino Unido
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Escrito por RAJ KAMAL JHA
Raj Kamal Jha nació en 1966 en Calcuta. Es licenciado en ingeniería mecánica por el Instituto Tecnológico de la India, en Kharagpur. Se especializó en periodismo en la University of Southern California de Los Ángeles. Trabajó como corresponsal en Los Ángeles y Washington antes de regresar a Calcuta en 1992. En 1994 se trasladó a Nueva Delhi, donde en la actualidad trabaja como redactor para el periódico The Indian Express.