A father who delights in the human body. It mysteries, its passion, and the knowledge that it contains and conceals. A mother who wields the power of her love mercilessly. A sister separeted in childhood. An uncle wo plays games of life and death as a member of the Bombay underworld. a passionate lvoe affair that tears the family apart. And a young woman left to make sense of the world and of her own sexuality. Shashi Deshpande's new novel is about the secret lives of men and women who love, hat...e, plot and debute with an intensity that will absorb every reader.
It is a story that begins, conventionally enough. with a woman's discovery of ehr father's dairy. As Manjari unlocks the past through its pages, rescuing old memories and recasting events and responses, the present makes its own demands: a rebellious daughter, devious property sharks and a lover who threatens to throw her life out of gear again. The ensuing struggle to reconcile nostalgia with reality and the fire of the body with the disire for companionship races to an unexpected resolution, twisting and turning through complex emotional landscapes.
About Author :
Shashi Deshpande. daughter of the renowned Kannada dramatist and Sanskrit scholar Shrianga, was bron in Dharwad. At the age of fiteen she went to Mumbai, graduated in economics then moved to Banglore. Where she gained a degree in law. The early years of her marriage were largely given over to the care of her two young sons. but she took a course in journalism and for a time worked on a magazine. Her writng career began in earnest only in 1970, initially with short stories of which several volumes have been published. She took a course in journalism and for a time worked on a magazine. Her writing career began in earnest only in 1970, initially with short stories, of which several volumes have been published. She is the author of four children's books and seven previous novels, the best knwon of which are The Dark Holds No Terro, That Long Silence, which won the Sahitya Akademi award, and Small Remedies. Shashi Deshpande lives in Bangalore with her pathologist husband.