Edité par Fourth Estate, 2019
ISBN 10 : 9353024021 ISBN 13 : 9789353024024
Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, Inde
Edition originale
Soft cover. Etat : New. 1st Edition. A building collapses in Mumbai. In the debris is a man who is mumbling something in delirium. It appears that he is passing on the real-time movements of a young Muslim couple. Elsewhere, a young intelligence agent is assigned to shadow two terror suspects, one of whom is a teenager and the sweetheart of her street, Laila. Taking up a slice of recent history, the novel glares at the entire system - not just politicians, the bureaucracy, the police and lackeys, but also the good folks. Pervasive in its satire, wicked in its humour and broad-based in its canvas, Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous is one of the most stylish and honest works of fiction about India ever written.