Acid - Couverture souple

Sreenivasan, Sangeetha

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0143457047 ISBN 13 : 9780143457046

Editeur : Penguin, 2022

Synopsis

Life is a brief, waking dream-but who casts the spell? Two striking women, Kamala and Shaly, helm an unusual household, fuelled by their intense, tempestuous romance in a rapidly changing Bangalore. Downstairs, Kamala's sons take care of each other in their own way-the twins are bound together by an early accident that paralysed Shiva, making Aadi his brother's caretaker. Beautiful Shaly is the object of more than one person's affections-and she, too, has a complicated past. When Kamala's mother dies, she returns to Kerala-to an ancestral house of horrors which lies next to the cremation grounds in Cochin's outlying reaches: a place which, nevertheless, is home. However, nothing can prepare her for the devastation that ensues in this lyrical, hallucinatory trip of a story. Utterly gripping and powerfully unsettling, Sangeetha Srinivasan's phenomenal debut subverts received ideas about society, individuality and motherhood. Acid unravels the secrets that lurk beneath the surface oif our lives, and marks the entry of a searing new voice in the Indian literary landscape.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sangeetha Sreenivasan is a novelist and scriptwriter who writes both in Malayalam and English. She has recently translated Elena Ferrante's Days of Abandonment into Malayalam to much acclaim. Her next novel, Salabham Pookkal Aeroplane, will be published in September 2018.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0143457047
• ISBN 13: 9780143457046
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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